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Chorus
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- Book Synopsis
- Poems that incorporate multiple voices to embrace fragmentation, discord, and plurality. At a time of simultaneous isolation and interconnection, this book is an inquiry into the edges of the self. Pushing back on capitalist messages of individuality, CHORUS instead seeks the multifaceted self that engages with the radical diversity that characterizes any healthy ecosystem or society. Moving between a remote canyon in New Mexico, the Pacific Northwest, New York City, the virtual world, the past, and the unstable future, the author asks, "Whose afterimage am I?" The sprawling, celebratory, mourning chorus of this book is the sum of many voices; the words of other writers, poets, and artists are interwoven with the author's words. This is a celebration of language's capacity to supersede bodily limits, mortality, and existential loneliness. Daniela Naomi Molnar's chorus encompasses violence, love, empathy, fear, a burning planet, a pandemic, heartbreak, desire, joy, and grief. Rather than seeking resolution, these poems look through the lens of a fragmented self, dwelling in plurality, discord, and harmony. CHORUS is the winner of Omnidawn's 1st /2nd Book Prize, judged by Kazim Ali.
- About The Author
- Daniela Naomi Molnar is a poet and artist who creates with color, water, language, and place. Her art centers on memory-planetary, cultural, familial, and personal. She works with pigments she makes from plants, bones, stones, and specific waters such as rainwater and glacial melt; her poems and essays are created alongside the visual art; the practices overlap and influence each other. Her debut book CHORUS won the 2024 Oregon Book Award for Poetry, followed by PROTOCOLS: An Erasure, which was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. She lives and works in Portland, Oregon, where the forest meets the city.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781632431110
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Omnidawn Publishing, (20 January 2023)
- Number of Pages
- 130
- Weight
- 227 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 229 x 152 x 13 mm
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