PLUVIOPHILE

Pluviophile is a poetic rumination on where language originates and what value it retains to unearth the sacred in postmodernity, among other subjects. The opening poem, “The Place Where Words Go to Die,” winner of the Malahat Review’s 2016 Far Horizons Poetry Award, imagines an underworld where words are killed and reborn, shedding their signifiers like skin to re-enter the symbiotic relationship with the human, where “saxum [is] sacrificed and born again as saxifrage.” From here the poems shift to diverse locations, from Montreal to Kolkata, from the moon to the gates of heaven.

Pluviophile este o renatie poetica despre originea limbajului si ce valoare pastreaza pentru a dezgropa sacrul in postmodernitate, printre alti subiecti. Poezia de deschidere, „Locul in care cuvintele merg sa moara”, castigatoare a Premiului de poezie Far Horizons 2016 al Malahat Review, isi imagineaza o lume interlopa in care cuvintele sunt ucise si renascute, aruncandu-si semnificatiile ca pielea pentru a reintroduce relatia simbiotica cu omul. , unde „saxum [este] sacrificat si nascut din nou ca saxifrage”. De aici, poeziile se muta in diverse locatii, de la Montreal la Kolkata, de la luna la portile cerului.