Codify*
(Digital Painting, Book Cover)
by Irene
KORONAS
Editions du Cygne,
2017
ISBN :
978-2-84924-492-0
5 x 8" (13 x
20 cm)
130 pages
$15.00
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In Codify,
Irene Koronas’ seminal, post-language collection, “cochineal bugs” wait for
their “theologic vigils” in a carved minimalism, which will prompt the gifted
among us to replace their internal organs with algorithms. The poems in Codify are scalpels arranged by the
nodules of some posthuman gematria. 6, 13, 22, 16, 8, for example, suggests a
lottery or the fibonacci code as seen by a midget with a monocle travelling the
Einstein-Rosen Bridge on a unicycle. Koronas is a dead serious parodist, “hope
or no hope/secretes a virgin,” but she’s also writing wisdom literature like a
posthuman Ecclesiastes. “She doesn’t/stand God,” and “snort praises/a fatal
cross,” bear witness to
the future of poetry, beyond confession and retweeds. Codify is
invention.
—Daniel
Y. Harris, author of The Rapture of Eddy
Daemon and Editor-in-Chief, X-Peri
With her full-length volume, Codify, Irene Koronas has achieved
nothing less than a poem that is a model for the material it is made of: in
this case, a panerotism that moves beyond the sphere of the interpersonal to a
caress of all things, all objects, as embodied, as encoded, everywhere. Eros and poetry, never far apart, are here as
they ought to be, together as one.
Koronas puts the soul into the flesh and the subject into the object
leaving her reader free to experience and to reconcile the disequilibrium
encoded in her distinctive short-stopped lines. Sometimes plaintive, always
exulting, Codify is an epic paean to
erotic love.
—Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino, Editor, E·ratio
Poetry Journal
I
am amazed by Irene Koronas’ profoundly moving sculpting of language. Some of
this writing is so visceral that it left me gasping.
—Jonathan
Lyons, author of The White Noise Album
and Co-founder, Cicatrix Publications
Reviews
HORNY
ATOMS: A Review of Irene Koronas' Codify (Editions du Cygne, 2017) By Fusiform Gyrus (Jonathan
Mulcahy-King)
