Marked by a lyrically explosive mix of pathos, philosophy and linguistic play, Yiddish aphorisms, Midrashic and Kabbalistic references, Aerotomania: The Book of Lumenations, passionately negotiates turbulence, loss, nostalgia, and hope, pointing to a jubilant present that is ever-arriving.
“The Book of Lumenations” section, takes as its jumping off point, the Biblical Eicha, The Book of Lamentations, and through reflection, deflection, refraction and the fracturing of language, homophonically re-situates the original text to the present epoch, exploring how darkness can be a form of light, and ways that in rupture, there is rapture.
In exquisite full color, the “Aerotomania” section is both a love letter and a lament to the airplane, speaking to ways both individuals and meaning get transported to multiple and sometimes unexpected destinations; and how, like language itself, the airplane becomes a symbol of hope. And as we fly through interlinguistic puns, passion, pleasure, and promise — through a variety of zones and registers soaring to higher and higher levels— Aerotomania carries its “passengers” through radically transformative possibilities of meaning and being.
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Poetry
AErotomania: The Book of Lumenations
- From the Publisher
September 1, 2023
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