A Thing of Shreds and Patches
Essay Press Chapbook, 2016
Winner of the 2016 Essay Press Digital Chapbook Competition, selected by Amaranth Borsuk.
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W.G. Sebald teaches us that time is neither linear nor broken but fully present in each moment, and the past, contingent and knowable, manifests like a restless soul first in the body then on the page. Its sentence is scored by revision, dissolving contrails, the meandering footpath of the peripatetic. How can a methodology that obviates entropy and dares to sustain the paradox of failure, in which detritus serves as historical fact and destruction fortifies, also be a poethics?
