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I am writing you from afar is the second book in Dick’s neographic (new/iterative, novel-/gospel-tinged, intercompositional, and cross-genre) Evasions Trilogy, which explores ardent yearning via minimalist abstraction, dense speculation, and minxy, vulnerable saints. Engaging with Feldman, Michaux, and Mohamedi, afar posits art as refusal and refuge, rebellion and rapture—a way out of narrative threat and an escape from obsessive/extravagant philosophizing. Dual imperatives of mark-making and emptiness-expanding charge the printed page qua score, shifting connections of sound and sense to create a plurilingual dissonance shot through with transcendent instants. This is a vagabond formalism, transfiguring St. Dympna’s patronage of runaways, incest survivors, and mental and neurological deviants into something metaphysical, erratically mystical, erotically transpositional—a polymorphous girlhood graphed toward, onto godfield.
Preorders for I am writing you from afar are now available at Small Press Distribution.
Advance praise for I am writing you from afar:
“To read Moyna Pam Dick’s I am writing
youfrom afar is to wade into a roiling sea of language, its protean churn. Dick’s is a poetics of a restless and arresting ‘spiritual alchemy,’ of psychic, sonic, material transfiguration. But the steady heart of this provocative work beats with the force and the wild visionary intelligence of girlhood, its perils and its power. We are confronted with the tension of irreconcilable truths, the difficult knowledge that ‘what one wants to change is not changeable, what one wants to stay the same will not stand still.'”—Genya Turovskaya, author of The Breathing Body of This Thought
“Scoring the paginated silences beneath words, Moyna Pam Dick writes us from an intimate distance, enacting transubstantiatory rites of language amid a retinue of musical and mystical interlocutors—acephalous saints, aleatoric scribes, sadistic dramaturges, and sundry corruptible others. More than a post-novelistic skewering of the family romance, this creaturely écriture issues a series of major philosophical theses on the vicissitudes of gender, and the void that our familiar symbols can’t help but dissemble. I am writing
youfrom afar is an intervenient, clairvoyant text, through which written experience appears as one vast constellation.”—Cam Scott, author of ROMANS/SNOWMARE
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