TRI /VIA (Erudite Fangs/PUB LUSH, 2003)Available: PUB LUSH, Amazon.
PRAISE for TRI / VIA
This book is a delight. That poetry can blast binaries to smithereens and follow the road of three (or more) is demonstrated with intelligence, wit and humor. The intellectual erotics of this epistolary conversation are magnified by an eros of metamorphic, hi-lo linguistic and gender-genre play. TRI / VIA is a collaborative act of love with its light and dark forces registered through a languagescape of ancient to contemporary lit, philosophy, science, mathematics, even the ubiquitous culture of the questionnaire. It continually surprises!—Joan Retallack
In TRI / VIA, Michelle Naka Pierce and Veronica Corpuz have
created a courtship in the form of a book-length poem. TRI / VIA has
three seers: the authors, the viewers and the words—a tri-lateral voice that
begs for challenge. Skirting improvisation's surface and information's dig into
your brainhole, Pierce and Corpuz ask you to bare your wit by offering
con/verse/sens/ations alive with phrase, in a poetry that startles convention
and breathes glitter intimacy.—Edwin Torres
TRI / VIA is a celebration of all
relationships and their wonderful varieties. And also a celebration of how
relationships are wonderful when various. Michelle Naka Pierce and Veronica
Corpuz realize that one of the things humans do when they talk with each other
is pun and play and so TRI / VIA is full of loving exchanges,
exchanges that are both excellent and fun.—Juliana Spahr
TRI / VIA is everything it says on the last page (which you
can look up right now)—a pyrotechnic set of meditations and variations on the
epistolary, along with terrific send-ups of postmodern theoretical jargon and
hegemonic style manuals and questionnaires. Michelle Naka Pierce and Veronica
Corpuz know that "Every sentence begins with a new world," and it is
a very exciting place.—Anselm Hollo
