Sophie Sills

Its epigraph from Oppen (“The flaw, the gap which is the aware of being, tho it is within it.  The flaw on which being presses”) suggests the epistemological concern at the center of Sophie Sills’ Elemental Perceptions:  A Panorama:  seeing/hearing things and events in the world, how can we know what’s really ‘there’ – that being “with a pulse . . . without a heartbeat . . . [which] is unknown,” yet which seems to be “aware” of us, seems to “press” against us. —Stephen Ratcliffe