Feel Recordings in the Evershift

Edwin Torres is a NYC native and the author of 14 books of poetry, including Quanundrum: i will be your many angled thing (Roof Books, awarded a 2022 American Book Award), Xoeteox: the infinite word object (Wave Books), Ameriscopia (University of Arizona Press), Yes Thing No Thing (Roof), The PoPedology of an Ambient Language (Atelos Books), In The Function of External Circumstances (Nightboat), and editor of The Body In Language: An Anthology (Counterpath Press). Multi-disciplinary collaborations with a wide range of cultural nomads have contributed to the development of his bodylingo poetics. He has performed worldwide and received fellowships from The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, NYSCA, The DIA Foundation, Arts MidHudson, among others. Anthologies include New Weathers: Poetics from the Naropa Archives, The Difference Is Spreading: 50 Contemporary Poets on Fifty Poems, Poets In The 21st Century: Poetics of Social Engagement, and Aloud: Voices from The Nuyorican Poets Cafe. He is an Adjunct Poetry Professor at Columbia University and a resident of Beacon, NY.

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at the gate of the open sphere
to follow the fellow i
of my mother’s mother’s mother
transfer point
to the ekphrastic i
burial chant: did you in your long life leave any wonder behind
skry is a delicate ocean
begrowth: i.e. growth
the process or instance of definition
generosity of a powerful gesture
there’s an [ass]ent in my [axx]ent
mad dementia in little italy
herald a mythic word
trellescent trail
abyss enters the conversation
primascape

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túmba la caña jibarito
weave ender
these quit texts are anti-fissure reality
invocation for the freefall
the enormous expanse of what it takes to make a day
eomantic arrangement for a wolf star
slight return
the writing of animals