There is escapism, yes—but then there is transcendence. And the more Maitonautself-reveals the more we see hints of full blown eternity hidden within the blur of modern everydayness. Mixing poems and fiction and narrators with the fluidity of water becoming ice then vapor, Kaisa Saarinen’s collection self-escapes somehow in the midst of its very self-materialization.
Plane of Consummate Finitude traffics categorically in the very defiance of categories. A collection of poems backdropped by a series of photomontage refrains, Steve Barbaro’s debut wanders from origins all the way back up to eternities in the midst of pitting eloquence against eloquence’s own worst enemies.