A Winter Triangle - Marcella Durand

Winner Of The 2023-24 Poetic Justice Institute Prize, Selected By Srikanth Reddya Poetic Exploration That Reimagines Form And Language Through Celestial Patternsinformed By Mystery, Chaos, Order And Writing As Container, A Winter Triangle Explores Poetic Space And Form Amid The Infinite Possibilities Of Composition And Change. Composed Of Three Parts, Or Points, Like Its Namesake Asterism, This Collection Is Inspired By Stphane Mallarm's Idea Of Composing Poetry From The Senseless Splendor Of The Skies As Well As The Designs For Automata By 12th-century Inventor And Engineer Ismail Al-jazari, And Mythological Depictions Of Sirius, The Dogwolf Star, As Both A Keeper Of Order And The Agent Of Chaos And Energy.inventing A New Poetic Form, The Septentrional, Which Trembles In Its Own Process Of Becoming Throughout The Length Of The Book, Marcella Durand Questions The Potential Of Poetry In The Face Of Artificial Intelligence, Climate Change, And Political Turbulence In Which Language Is Often Twisted Into The Opposite Of Its Own Meaning. By Counting The Seven Syllables Of The Septentrional, And Opening Spaces (caesura) Within The Poetic Line To Provide Breath And Rejuvenation Amid Exhausting World Events, These Poems Resituate Poetry As An Alternate Space In Which To Reimagine The Given Forms Of Constellations And How We Imagine Order Out Of Seeming Chaos.