Holyrit by Irene Koronas

Between gilgul and galgal, logos and gematria, Irene Koronos’ fourth volume of the Grammaton Series, holyrit delivers a spectacular juxtapoiesis of textual and sonic probes— fragrant ellipses, fragments and eclipse, where all that is sacred, secular, savage and ex-static explode as sparks of light reminding us how the letters themselves are the building blocks of creation.

And if “mysticism” is that which does not fit into the system; that which cannot be absorbed, holyrit presents itself as a “mystical” act, performed through exile and fluidity and virtuosic fluxuriance.

—Adeena Karasick

Irene Koronas is the author of numerous collections of xperimental writing including declivities (BlazeVOX, 2018), Volume III in her Grammaton Series, 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 Dickinson (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, Silver Pinion, SPAMzine, Spreadhead, Stride Taos Journal of International Poetry & Art, 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 of X-Peri. Her website is irenekoronas.com.

Book Information:

· Paperback: 136 pages

· Binding: Perfect-Bound

· Publisher: BlazeVOX [books] 

· ISBN: 978-1-60964-357-7

$16

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