Structural Pantoum: Sixteen Absolute Compositions

By: Gucci, J. A.

Structural Pantoum: Sixteen Absolute Compositions presents sixteen poems constructed through recursive pantoum structures that transform through repetition, redistribution, and return. Drawing on environmental, perceptual, acoustic, and material phenomena, the collection explores how meaning emerges not through narrative progression or symbolic explanation, but through altered relational conditions created by recurrence.

Organized into four sections-Presence, Pressure, Recursion, and Dissolution-the poems trace cycles of emergence, transformation, erosion, memory, and renewal. Images of weather, landscape, ritual, domestic space, combustion, silence, and ecological change reappear across shifting structural positions, generating patterns of resonance, instability, and unexpected connection.

Derived from the traditional pantoum form, each composition employs repeated lines that return under altered circumstances. Rather than functioning as static refrains, these recurrences redistribute emphasis and perception, revealing how repetition can produce transformation rather than sameness.

Accompanied by a prefatory note, structural note, methodological note, and compositional framework, the collection invites readers to observe what returns, what shifts, what accumulates, and what persists through cycles of recurrence.

Both formally rigorous and lyrically compressed, Structural Pantoum offers a distinctive exploration of repetition as a creative force-one in which structure becomes a living system of emergence, drift, residue, and change.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1972788388
• ISBN13: 9781972788387
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Pressure System Press
• Length: 44 Pages
• Weight: 0.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"