U&i: in a Paisley Conservation Pit

By Émilie Galindo

Emilie Galindo's work is always an exploration of language and this collection takes us into the rhythm and synesthesia of a rare talent. This exuberant volume straddles, bridles and riddles the reader, pulling us into the past....the paisley conversation pit where memory is a living springing thing. Those times, people, places and selves are lost to us and yet, here is a world, scrunched up and splitting, flattened & framed. These verbs have a physical effect - it's our love letters, cocktails, maraschino cherries, cigarettes and photographs that are scrunched, split, flattened and framed. While this past belongs to the poet, presumably, it's a "d j vu" for the reader who remembers the same world. Whether they were there or not, they are there now - inside ballooning parentheses, set up by dot dot dots, led on by hyphens and taken to a noisy pop pop pop world of bubble wrap, tooting horns & skippity clops.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 2488467154
• ISBN13: 9782488467155
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Poetry Lighthouse
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"