SURFACE STUDIES we mutate it with our

we mutate it with our gaze

From the press: The dead draw the living toward new language in Jimin Seo’s extraordinary debut poetry collection

From the press: Cover image is a photo of an embroidery made by Karah Kemmerly

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SURFACE STUDIES we mutate it with ourLiterary Criticism. Action Books, 2024. Paperback, 46 pages. 7"x7"x0. 25" From the press: The text is not a passive object. And the reader is not a passive observer. In reading a text, we mutate it with our gaze, however briefly, in however isolated a setting. In less conventional works, the reader is often asked to search investigate, map out the potentially chaotic or uncharted interiors of the work. In Surface Studies, Mike Corrao takes close