A book of poems in two linked sequences, 'Mean Free Path' and 'Doppler Elegies', that fold elegy, ambient media and political dread into fragmented, self-interrupting lines. Dedicated to Ari, it plays with reference, grief and the distance between speaker and subject.
Books mentioned in Mean Free Path (2)
Bezhin Meadow by Ivan Turgenev: “'I dyed what's-her-face's hair with lime Kool-Aid so when I read "Bezhin Meadow" I lent her aspect to the green-haired spirit'”
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy: “'Parting in stations, promising to write War and Peace, this time with feeling'”