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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Deborah Oster Pannell is a freelance writer and curator who collaborates with visual artists, performers and creative entrepreneurs to develop and promote new projects. She writes about love, loss, parenting, race, social justice, spirituality and sexuality, with an eye towards building community and contributing to a more compassionate and humane society. She is currently the Gallery Manager at NYC’s C24 Gallery.
Review of The Snow Dead by Marc Zegans
The Snow Dead
by Marc Zegans
Červená Barva Press, 2020
The Snow Dead (Červená Barva Press, 2020), a new collection of writings by poet Marc Zegans, is a sparse set of meditations on life and death, all framed in some way by cold and snow. At first, the journey through a seemingly random series of moments and memories feels haphazard, like wandering through the woods without knowing what you’ll stumble upon next. But the further one goes, the randomness begins to take shape. Moments caught in time begin to reflect on one another, until a kind of kaleidoscopic experience of past, present and future emerges. Some images are muted, like bodies trapped under ice, while others stand out as drops of blood against snow. Strung together, they wake us up to the wonder and dread of what lies frozen beneath the surface.
In The Snow Dead, Zegans has presented an austere set of poetic offerings, snapshots of what has happened, is happening and will happen, fragmented and disjointed in the way that we experience the passing of time. And in the quiet thaw of bittersweet memories, he provides space enough to reckon with the flesh and blood left in their wake, the ugly and beautiful life that persists.
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Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published monthly by Glass Poetry Press.
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