Near Your Mirror Home (Stay On)

The dualities in Paolo Javier's Near Your Mirror Home (Stay On) span the formal and topical, featuring a serial poem that revels in/reveals the slipperiness of desire and separation from place and language in the Dreaming, and a long poem that roars at white supremacy, misogyny, and horizontal hate in our nightmare moment of late US American empire. Oneiric and concrete, modular and incantatory, Javier's poems take readers on a voyage to their depths, while signaling exciting new turns in the poetics of one of Queens County's more restless language artists.