Beloved Integer (Bootstrap/PUB
LUSH, 2007)
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PRAISE for BELOVED INTEGER
This is a book for impossible space. Beloveds who love each other like
this, for whom both language and distance are erotic, will be met by these
luminous poems at all points. It’s a delicious subject—how to speak in the
first place, and how to ask for something in a way that’s neither negotiation
nor seduction. Something else. Intense expression. I am trying to describe the
incredible relationship the writer herself has to words—phrasing, phonemes, possible
verbs. Michelle Naka Pierce writes to us here, from a dark and intimate
architecture lined with peeling gold parchment: the letters, illuminated,
partially torn and always, always broken off.—Bhanu Kapil
A translation of absence. An existential solution to the mystery of
lovers separated by distance. With uncompromising physics and philosophy,
Michelle Naka Pierce deconstructs the fragments of discourse and creates an
unflinching meditation on the significance of love.—Maureen Owen
This marvelous book, so light on all its hands and feet, so assured in
the delicacy of its unwavering precision… Beloved Integer presents its
visitors/voyagers with a complex adaptive system of memory and desire, a kind
of visible city rich in “variably negotiated moments of production,” in
“oceanic feeling,” in “dialogues in solitude,” in easy energy and hard-earned
matter, fearlessly held up to the light, which adumbrates the deepest
territories of the heart.—Laird Hunt
Excerpt: not enough night
Interview by M. Perel: Tarpaulin Sky
Translation by Sirama Bajo: Derivas
Companion text by Chris Pusateri: North of There
(Dusie, 2007)
