STONE SERIES, excerpt
if the forest heard is …………… it’s mirrors …. over ………………offering ………. until
a ….. jungle ….. here ……………. turn …………………………………… .dressed
leaping in ………………………………………………………………………. … mistakes
…………………………………………… are, as they all say ………………. embarrassed
…………………………………………… over—whelming …………………..mushrooms
…………………………………………………………………………………………… images
nobody ……………………………….. more green ………………………… more stones
arrives
in .. this .. mirror .. but
that .. other he who
so resembles
…………………………………………… & a bat on its back ………………. there on the edge of
…………………………………………… struggling .. to .. turn ……………. the .. road .. over &
…………………………………………… itself ……………………………………… over again
Author’s Bio
Malcolm Sanger is a graduate student in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. Originally from Toronto, he has studied anthropology and literature and worked in restaurants and reforestation.
Malcolm Sanger was one of the finalists for the 2021 Vallum Chapbook Award for his chapbook Stone Series.
Stones Series is a group of poems set in Yucatán. They come from ethnographic fieldwork on tourism and migration in the region, work on Maya glyphs and sites by anthropologists Dennis Tedlock and Quetzil Casatañeda, and essays and poems by Charles Olson and Roman Jakobson. At its center is a list of words (or found poem) that someone Sanger lived with wrote down to translate. These words animate narratives and questions around materiality and language, sound and image, archaeology and anthropology, espionage and translation, analogy and parallelism.
