Description
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.Fiction.
Poetry. Art. Hybrid. LGBTQIA. Philosophy.
Author Bio
MOYNA PAM DICK (aka Lou/Moina/Gregoire Pam Dick et al.) is the author of Moira of Edges, Moira the Tart (OPR, 2019), this is the fugitive (Essay Press, 2016), Metaphysical Licks (Book*hug, 2014) + Delinquent (Futurepoem, 2009). Her novel graphic I am writing you from afar (BSL, 2021) belongs, with Edges, to the in-progress Evasions Trilogy-a triad that links spare art, fic spec + pert, abstractive saints. Also an artist + philosopher, Dick lives in New York City, where she explores transient structures (veridical, temporal, sonic, spatial, etc.), obsessive formalisms, haunted intertexts, cluster semantics + the vulnerable, moody, tender urban sublime. Her slyly unruly, tone-shifting notations span the genre-/gender-spectral.
Author City: NEW YORK, NY USA