Debrah Morkun

Debrah Morkun's words compose dynamic fields. Her efforts push poetry onto the page to energize language by reaching toward its limits. Between the ""janus-lipped morning"" and ""miserable neighborhoods"" a resistance forms according to what can be said and what actually gets said. Morkun confronts opposing forms and possibilities (like the ida and pingala of the title). Here poetry is electrified by the tensions of sound and meaning. ~ Hoa Nguyen