Pronouns in the darker mirror

composition

posted on 2024-06-03, 20:42 authored by Marion Campbell

amorous rejection, via an inability to relate the self negated to any pronoun. It is part of the' languish' project, exploring stages language as trickster, traitor and seducer, that flamboyantly connects, wiring the circuitry of desire, just as it silences and slices. One moment, it stutters, teetering on the brink, and the next, transfigures loss in radiant dreamscapes, restoring ardour amongst the ruins of allegory.

History

Volume

Pagination

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Language

English

Notes

This poem reappears in my collection languish (Upswell Publishing, 2022)

Research statement

Background This poem explores the collapse of identity through amorous rejection, via an inability to relate the self negated to any pronoun. It is part of the' languish' project, exploring stages language as trickster, traitor and seducer, that flamboyantly connects, wiring the circuitry of desire, just as it silences and slices. One moment, it stutters, teetering on the brink, and the next, transfigures loss in radiant dreamscapes, restoring ardour amongst the ruins of allegory. Contribution This poem explores the collapse of identity through amorous rejection, via an inability to relate the self negated to any pronoun. It is part of the' languish' project, exploring stages language as trickster, traitor and seducer, that flamboyantly connects, wiring the circuitry of desire, just as it silences and slices. One moment, it stutters, teetering on the brink, and the next, transfigures loss in radiant dreamscapes, restoring ardour amongst the ruins of allegory. Significance This poem explores the collapse of identity through amorous rejection, via an inability to relate the self negated to any pronoun. It is part of the' languish' project, exploring stages language as trickster, traitor and seducer, that flamboyantly connects, wiring the circuitry of desire, just as it silences and slices. One moment, it stutters, teetering on the brink, and the next, transfigures loss in radiant dreamscapes, restoring ardour amongst the ruins of allegory.

Publication classification

JO3 Original Creative Works – Textual Work

Scale

NTRO Other

Publisher

Christopher Cyrill, Editor of ALQ

Place of publication

Sydney

Source

Aletheia Literary Quarterly

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Keywords

failure of language mutism pronouns rejection relationships