elisabeth nicula reviewed Vibratory Milieu by Carrie Hunter
"I am the obstacle course."
4 stars
Rly liked this... fragmentation elicited lols and made dark things more tolerable.
96 pages
English language
Published Jan. 6, 2020 by Nightboat Books.
Vibratory Milieu
5 stars
(2 reviews)
Vibratory Milieu weaves together eight years of writing to build an interconnecting web of accretionary meaning, using bits and pieces from a myriad of sources: current events, social media quips, film, literature, and theory. Hunter’s reading practice as art form merges with practices of attention as she culls lines from journals, poems written to music, poems written after meditation, poems written about dreams, and in response to poems by friends. What emerges from this field of language is a study of identity and its abstraction, formation, and analysis through interaction with texts of all kinds: poems, film, music, dream, and friendship.
amyberko reviewed Vibratory Milieu by Carrie Hunter
This is my fav Carrie Hunter book
5 stars
"The Bay Area's secret weapon" Carrie Hunter has written a number of poetry collections, but this one — just out from Nightboat — is my fav. Recommended if you like: telling people your dreams and hearing about people's dreams, eavesdropping, collage, impossible situations, ALL CAPS, thinking about sex while "meditating," the strangeness of everyday language.