The Coriolis effect--from which A. D. Lauren-Abunassar's hyperkinetic debut collection borrows its title--describes a force that deflects a mass off course. This concept is at play both formally and psychically in Coriolis , recognized in Leila Chatti's Foreword as "a book of wanting, of lack, absence, disintegration, opacity, and yearning. . . . 'If only I could cut out the part of me shaped like wanting, ' writes Lauren-Abunassar. At times, the thing wanted for is love. Other times: family, certainty, belonging, home, ...
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The Coriolis effect--from which A. D. Lauren-Abunassar's hyperkinetic debut collection borrows its title--describes a force that deflects a mass off course. This concept is at play both formally and psychically in Coriolis , recognized in Leila Chatti's Foreword as "a book of wanting, of lack, absence, disintegration, opacity, and yearning. . . . 'If only I could cut out the part of me shaped like wanting, ' writes Lauren-Abunassar. At times, the thing wanted for is love. Other times: family, certainty, belonging, home, safety, wellness, wholeness, or simply for a thing to be clean. Always, these poems reveal the shape of the want by illuminating its outline." Perhaps the speaker of these poems wants most of all to be seen , despite her reflex to deflect when she discloses a shame or trauma, often by depositing the self-revelation within rapid, teeming strings of thought. Yet as much as this speaker may be an introvert in life--"Every time someone says my name it surprises me"; "Because I am lonely, I am always shying away from the mirror"; "Today I woke up feeling / like an already said thing"--many of her utterances are exuberantly uninhibited. "Small trees live inside me," Lauren-Abunassar admits passingly in one poem. And in another: "When I dream of myself, my mouth / blooms many hands. They reach in all / shapes and directions."
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