The Way a Line Hallucinates Its Own Linearity

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Danielle Vogel's newest collection creates a latticework for repair--the repairing of past trauma, the calling-into-presence of a dissociated self--but does so while keeping the material of this net of thinking in a fragmented, diaphanous state, glowing in the space between the poem and essay. Across three sections of "displacements," "miniature

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"How does language reside in our bodies In the stunning second volume of her trilogy, Danielle Vogel vivifies the ineffable qualities of language and writing in our bodies. Language has great affective power even at the scale where "all letters are occupied by touch," and these three long poems perform a reparative interrogation whose premise might be situated in her lucid observation that "We hold language and language holds us." Vogel is doing semiotic soulwork here, excavating memory to tell us how we are bound by even the silences between the paragraphs we imprint onto art and the world. After reading this collection, you won't be able to use language without reckoning how it extends your body into a vast network of connection and sound." --CARMEN GIMNEZ SMITH, author of Be Recorder

"In this book, Danielle Vogel reveals language as a pattern that creates the page out of syntax. In this way, poetry is a sance between reader and writer; an encounter in which space is created so breathing can happen. If words can heal, this exquisite and careful book opens language to its capacity to create space, breath, and unconscious resources. It is a remarkable contribution to contemporary poetry and its luminous mind-body connectivities." --Kristin Prevallet, author of Trance Poetics: Your Writing Mind

"In Danielle Vogel's heartbreakingly gorgeous The Way a Line Hallucinates Its Own Linearity, she digs underneath the skin of the body, language, and the book to scratch toward a haunting absence. To tend to and hold that absence--to stroke it--requires Vogel's patient yet urgent series of utterances. A vibrational pull that won't let us go results: a crackling cry in the ache of night, a sensate break into other sphere, a lit passion, a new blues. Yes to these poems' redemptive resilience--their fracture and their blur. Yes, yes, yes. I am reminded of why we need poetry." --DAWN LUNDY MARTIN, author of Good Stock Strange Blood

"Vogel is attuned to the condensed and serial moment, and the notion of the miniature, especially one as part of a much larger structure. The language is liquid, dense and buoyant, composed of a lyric as sharp as it is stunning. This is a beautifully-written, intimate and serious work, one barely given proper due through my own small sentences." --Rob Mclennan's Blog

Author Bio

Danielle Vogel is a poet, lyric essayist and installation artist whose work explores the bonds between language and presence, between a reader and a writer, and how a bookas an extended architecture of a bodymight serve as a site of radical transformation. She is the author of Edges & Fray (Wesleyan, 2020) and Between Grammars (Noemi, 2015). Her installations, or public ceremonies for language, have been most recently exhibited at RISD Museum, MICA, The University of Arizonas Poetry Center, and Abecedarian Gallery. She teaches at Wesleyan University and makes her home in New England with the artist Renee Gladman.