Everything Is in Search of Equilibrium

By Eso Malflor

eso malflor's debut poetry chapbook, EVERYTHING IS IN SEARCH OF EQUILIBRIUM, is an exploration of the body - body as flesh and body as earth. It contends with ideas of the permeability and permanence of the perceived borders among those surfaces. Navigating excavated forms such as bone and hair and rivers and tectonic plates, eso expresses how they all exist in a state of interconnectedness and fluidity. As eso writes in Equilibria, "all bodies are in transition / the earth is a body in transition." Such a statement offers acknowledgement and compassion for bodies that have been subjected to conformity, instead giving them the agency to be whatever it is that time and self call them to be.

Inviting the Mexican and Norwegian aspects of their heritage to partake in these searches, eso also crosses boundaries out of the English language in this debut, allowing a tenderness toward these terrains that spans their ancestral lineage, reminding us how all these elements are a collective ecosystem in continuous conversation.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GY61KM9L
• ISBN13: 9798218787097
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Echo Thread Books
• Length: 46 Pages
• Weight: 0.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"