doors
is a door
including poetry projects a chapbook and incidental poems previously published in magazines and by small presses is a door makes use of the poems ability for suddenness to subvert closure the sudden question the sudden turn the sudden opening writing that is generated from linguistic mindfulness improvisation compositional problem solving collaborative events travel investigation and documentary in short poetry as practice . br part one isadora blue is grounded in the authors encounter with the smashed and broken doors along the hurricane devastated waterfront of telchac puerto a small village on the north coast of the yucatan peninsula . it resonates throughout the other three sections of the book with its attention to hybridity and between ness a poetic investigation of racialized otherness and the composition of citizen and foreigner through history and language . br part two of this series of poems ethnogy journal written during a trip to thailand and laos in 1999 hinges around aspects of tourist and native . here the poems play in the interstices of spectacle food and social sightseeing . br much of this poetry is framed by wahs acute sense of the marginalized non urban local place and coloured by his attempt to articulate senses of otherness and resistance or writing the public self particularly in the books third section discount me in a series of sixteen poems from his discursive poetic essay count me in . br the fourth section hinges is tinted with portraits of the social subject mired in a diasporic mix a metanarrative trope in fred wahs work that began with breathin my name with a sigh . br characteristically playful and compositionally musical this is poetry that watches both sides of the doorway unsettled unpredictable closed and open . sometimes the door swings and can be kicked . sometimes its simply missing . sometimes its a sliding door .