Dawn Michelle Baude

Intense fragmentation that accrues context and materiality as it proceeds, the poems are site-specific (Paris, Brussels, Lacoste, New York, Beirut, and many more). The afterward describes the author's ethos of composition as one related to Susan Howe's use of "narrative in non-narrative." These are also "field" poems, historiographical, and in conversation with the temporal moment of observing the world without using the world.