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"The typingspawning in IMPASTORAL is not in The Human, not in a human, but it flies through the possible voices of other outside-insides-slug, probe, horse carriage, sewer, potted plant, lab rat, vampire, bot fly, giant cow. Language isn't human or not human, it undoes that very idea, so these beings-slugprobe, pottedhorsesewer, telepathybarcode mammaltexts-aren't on the outside anymore. Letterwords are cells or flummoxing quanta, particulate and mutating, waving about. If you follow science all the way around it passes through a pagebrane. Boundaries get slimed. A synthetic, nonce, and hyperpossible poetry. Your experiences are deformed into the experiences of other beings. We can hatch into a world we're not eating up. We are going to hear many faroffs very near"--
About the author
Brandan Griffin was born in Massachusetts and now lives in Sunnyside, New York. He is the author of the chapbook
Four Concretures, and his poems have been published in
Tagvverk,
Chicago Review, and
Word for/Word.
Impastoral is his first book.
