U&I: in a Paisley Conservation Pit
by Emilie Galindo

“These poems gave me the “jiggly puffed squiggles”. Emilie Galindo’s work is always an exploration of language and this collection takes us into the rhythm and synesthesia of a rare talent. This exuberant volume straddles, bridles and riddles the reader, pulling us into the past….the paisley conversation pit where memory is a living springing thing. Those times, people, places and selves are lost to us and yet, here is a world, scrunched up and splitting, flattened & framed. These verbs have a physical effect - it’s our love letters, cocktails, maraschino cherries, cigarettes and photographs that are scrunched, split, flattened and framed. While this past belongs to the poet, presumably, it’s a "déjà vu" for the reader who remembers the same world. Whether they were there or not, they are there now - inside ballooning parentheses, set up by dot dot dots, led on by hyphens and taken to a noisy pop pop pop world of bubble wrap, tooting horns & skippity clops.”

— Dia VanGunten

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