Memory of a Larger Mind
Autor Daniela Naomi Molnaren Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 oct 2026
In her new poetry collection, Memory of a Larger Mind, Daniela Naomi Molnar sifts through memory and layered loss—planetary, cultural, familial, and personal—asking how we withstand and how we transform. These are plein air poems, written outdoors in the presence of disappearing glaciers and composed with shifting light, wind, sound, and scent: elegies and love songs, celebrations and laments. Braiding the slow death of glaciers with her grandmother's survival of the Holocaust, the book holds ecological and ancestral loss in a single frame. Alive to our current moment while keeping one foot in geologic time, Molnar exposes genocide and ecocide as expressions of the same logic, the same movement: ice to water to light, grief to love to joy to grief.
Memory of a Larger Mind is part of a larger interdisciplinary project that gathers pigments, language, and memory from “sacrifice zones”—glaciated landscapes, former concentration and incarceration camps, desecrated sacred sites—and transforms them into poems, paintings, and films. The result is work in which all bodies are understood as dynamic, part of a world in which difficult pasts might open toward more peaceful futures, and in which grief, handled with care, might shift to love.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781632432285
ISBN-10: 1632432285
Pagini: 104
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Omnidawn Publishing, Inc.
Colecția Omnidawn
ISBN-10: 1632432285
Pagini: 104
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Omnidawn Publishing, Inc.
Colecția Omnidawn
Notă biografică
Daniela Naomi Molnar is a poet and artist who creates with color, water, language, and place. Her art centers on memory—planetary, cultural, familial, and personal. She works with pigments she makes from plants, bones, stones, and specific waters such as rainwater and glacial melt; her poems and essays are created alongside the visual art; the practices overlap and influence each other. Her debut book CHORUS won the 2024 Oregon Book Award for Poetry, followed by PROTOCOLS: An Erasure, which was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. She lives and works in Portland, Oregon, where the forest meets the city.
Cuprins
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1 MEMORY OF A LARGER MIND
2 TRAP
3 YOU / I
4 A NAME IS ITS OWN PLACE
5 MATTER IS METAPHOR
6 CALVINGS FOR THE SENSIBLE
7 NEW BLURS
NOTES
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
1 MEMORY OF A LARGER MIND
2 TRAP
3 YOU / I
4 A NAME IS ITS OWN PLACE
5 MATTER IS METAPHOR
6 CALVINGS FOR THE SENSIBLE
7 NEW BLURS
NOTES
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Recenzii
“In these keening poems, Molnar seeks solace in glaciers, and the ice responds. A stern but patient tutor, ice illuminates a cerulean path through grief. It is a lens for seeing ourselves in proper perspective, a prism that reveals the full spectrum of human experience. Glaciers remind us that ‘the only promise . . . time makes is to be ongoing’.”
“In the Jewish tradition, the kaddish, the mourning prayer, is simultaneously a song of praise for the unutterable, for that which is beyond all language, all praise. Here too Molnar has written a kaddish for our moment, for a glacier lost to melting, for ancestors known and unknown, that is simultaneously an exaltation for all that changes and in changing lives on: ‘let the pre-name turn to name / then let the name turn nameless.’ With incredible precision of syllable and sound, of rhythm and movement, these poems of astounding beauty beseech us to attend to the earth’s own memory, which is our own memory, for as these poems know, we are not other than the earth with which we live. ‘Become an apprentice to the immaterial.’ Amen.”
"Is a glacier a memory? Is it time? An echo of the past? In Molnar’s Memory of a Larger Mind, the glacier is an incantation, a kaddish, something both primordial and fixed, a thing so sentient it is at our mercy. Molnar brings us to the ice and embodies the lyric with a vision and clarity that comes only from grief. She asks us, ‘When a memory goes / what flows into its gap?’ Here, Molnar is thinking as much about inheritance as the nature left behind, the ways that time and its bodies are at once an ‘insouciant menace’ and a shared gossamer thing. There is a feeling in Molnar’s poetry of a ruptured deity captured in the calving of ice, hope transmitted through witness, and a millennia-deep ache for that which has always already moved through ice and stone. Memory of a Larger Mind is an astonishing collection of poems, one of the best books I’ve read in years. It will take your breath away in its insistences and urgencies."
"Like a glacier, Molnar’s poems carve and clarify their readers. This book of poems asks us to slow with its hefty task–to untame the distance between remembering and forgetting, to feral our future ghosts. Daniela excavates indifference with muscular language, investigative silence, and undiluted sentience, offering us opportunities to remember the global body with our own. Unshrinking from the onslaught of erosion, erasure, and amnesia, each poem annunciates what endures after we, and the world, are broken. Daniela shows us that all grief cuts towards a bedrock of love."
“In the Jewish tradition, the kaddish, the mourning prayer, is simultaneously a song of praise for the unutterable, for that which is beyond all language, all praise. Here too Molnar has written a kaddish for our moment, for a glacier lost to melting, for ancestors known and unknown, that is simultaneously an exaltation for all that changes and in changing lives on: ‘let the pre-name turn to name / then let the name turn nameless.’ With incredible precision of syllable and sound, of rhythm and movement, these poems of astounding beauty beseech us to attend to the earth’s own memory, which is our own memory, for as these poems know, we are not other than the earth with which we live. ‘Become an apprentice to the immaterial.’ Amen.”
"Is a glacier a memory? Is it time? An echo of the past? In Molnar’s Memory of a Larger Mind, the glacier is an incantation, a kaddish, something both primordial and fixed, a thing so sentient it is at our mercy. Molnar brings us to the ice and embodies the lyric with a vision and clarity that comes only from grief. She asks us, ‘When a memory goes / what flows into its gap?’ Here, Molnar is thinking as much about inheritance as the nature left behind, the ways that time and its bodies are at once an ‘insouciant menace’ and a shared gossamer thing. There is a feeling in Molnar’s poetry of a ruptured deity captured in the calving of ice, hope transmitted through witness, and a millennia-deep ache for that which has always already moved through ice and stone. Memory of a Larger Mind is an astonishing collection of poems, one of the best books I’ve read in years. It will take your breath away in its insistences and urgencies."
"Like a glacier, Molnar’s poems carve and clarify their readers. This book of poems asks us to slow with its hefty task–to untame the distance between remembering and forgetting, to feral our future ghosts. Daniela excavates indifference with muscular language, investigative silence, and undiluted sentience, offering us opportunities to remember the global body with our own. Unshrinking from the onslaught of erosion, erasure, and amnesia, each poem annunciates what endures after we, and the world, are broken. Daniela shows us that all grief cuts towards a bedrock of love."