declivities by Irene Koronas

Irene Koronas’ declivities, Volume III of her Grammaton Series, along with ninth iota (The Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2018) and Codify (Editions du Cygne, 2017), seals her position as one of the most ingenious, experimental innovators of our era. She is a postlanguage, hyper-minimalist écrivain, melding the aporias of a posthuman poesis with an orthodox spiritus. With Koronas’ grammaton the Western Canon replaces its internal organs with algorithms. Memed and burrowed, tropes in declivities form matrices comprised of such disparities as gematria, the fibonacci code, hagiography, Ecclesiastes and “in her anaphora action sacrifices popeye” and “bars apocrypha in tube sprockets.” Her “hypernic glaze skims off blanc.”

Siphoning from a trajectory of experimental literature and poetics from Dadaism to Algorithmics and beyond, the Koronas grammaton is fashioned from a panerotism reconciling the disequilibrium encoded within the hyperlinks of a retromanic pleroma and a feminine clinamen. By excavating the figurations of Rimbaud, Dickinson, de Sade, Bataille and many au courant experimentalists, declivities relegates identity and gender to funerary antiques in a reliquary. Dexterity, agility, finesse and hilarity resurrect the zombies of confessionalism, unleashing stanzaic androids and gynoids so innovative in their multiplicity as to secrete glossolalia from postdata holy writ, creating the grand poesis for the 21st century.

—Daniel Y. Harris

Irene Koronas is the author of numerous collections of xperimental writing include-ing ninth iota (The Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2018), Volume II in her Grammaton Series, Codify (Éditions du Cygne, 2017), Volume I in her Grammaton Series, heshe egregore (with Daniel Y. Harris, Éditions du Cygne, 2016), Turtle Grass (Muddy River Books, 2014), Emily Dickin-son (Propaganda Press, 2010), Pentakomo Cyprus (Červená Press, 2009) and Self Portrait Drawn From Many (Ibbetson Street Press, 2007).

Her xperimental writing and sauvage art have been published in Arcanum Café, BlazeVOX, The Boston Globe, Brave New Word, Cambridge Chronicles, Clarion, Counterexample Poetics, Divine Dirt, E·ratio, experiential-experimental-literature, International Times, The Licentiam: A Journal for Erotic Literary Experimentalism, Lynx, Lummox, Mgversion>datura, Of\with, journal of immanent renditions, New Mystics, Otoliths, Pop Art, Right Hand Pointing, Poesy, Presa, The Seventh Quarry Magazine, Taos Journal of International Poetry & Art, SPAMzine, Spreadhead, Stride and Unblog.

She has exhibited her sauvage art at the Tokyo Art Museum Japan, the Henri IV Gallery, the Ponce Art Gallery, Gallery at Bentley College and the M & M Gallery. She’s a graduate of the Massachusetts College of Art & Design and is the Publisher & Managing Editor of X-Peri.

Book Information:

· Paperback: 138 pages

· Binding: Perfect-Bound

· Publisher: BlazeVOX [books] 

· ISBN: 978-1-60964-325-6

$16

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