ground-breaking anthology
In the Lateness of the World is a dark book of crossings
exceptionally felicitous marriage of poetry and politics
under the constellations of aircraft holding patterns
notes and essays as part of a lyrical exploration of the conjunction between aesthetics
Scale by Mina Gorji Ian McDonald ground-breaking anthologyAt the volcano's edge, in exilic space, at the bottom of the Arctic Sea, or in the acid clouds of Venus, Mina Gorji's Scale traces life at its limits. The poems range across scales of distance, temperature and time, from vast to minute, glacial to volcanic, Pleistocene to present day, constellation to millipede. Adapting to the cold of a new continent opens a chromatic investigation of feeling. Shifting between scales, from insect to ancient star,