A Winter Triangle - Marcella Durand

Winner Of The 202324 Poetic Justice Institute Prize, Selected By Srikanth Reddy A Poetic Exploration That Reimagines Form And Language Through Celestial Patterns Informed By Mystery, Chaos, Order And Writing As Container, A Winter Triangle Explores Poetic Space And Form Amid The Infinite Possibilities Of Composition And Change. Composed Of Three Parts, Or Points, Like Its Namesake Asterism, This Collection Is Inspired By Stphane Mallarms Idea Of Composing Poetry From The Senseless Splendor Of The Skies, As Well As The Designs For Automata By Twelfth-century Inventor And Engineer Ismail Al-jazari, And Mythological Depictions Of Sirius, The Dogwolf Star, As Both A Keeper Of Order And The Agent Of Chaos And Energy. Inventing A Poetic Form, The Septentrional, Which Trembles In Its Own Process Of Becoming Throughout The Length Of The Book, Marcella Durand Questions The Potential Of Poetry In The Face Of Artificial Intelligence, Climate Change, And Political Turbulence In Which Language Is Often Twisted Into The Opposite Of Its Own Meaning.