My daily actions, or the meteorites, paperback/s. brook corfman

My Daily Actions, or The Meteorites is the result of a daily investigative writing practice, in which I was worried that a poem invested in the particulars of my life would be uninteresting--that the ordinary would be mundane.

Instead memory, dreams, and the associative power of the imagination filled each moment with meaning, each tv show I watched or friend I spoke with, each outfit I wore or nail polish color I chose.

In these poems, a combination of dread (for something approaching) and anxiety (for what might be approaching but isnt yet known) undid a sense of the present separate from climate change, global racial capitalism, whiteness, and gender-based violence, especially as I wrote as I tried to find out how my own gender fit into the world.

The prose poem is the vehicle by which a recording practice (journaling) meets the associative power of the poem.

About author(s): S.

Brook Corfman is the author of Luxury, Blue Lace, chosen by Richard Siken for the 2018 Autumn House Rising Writer Prize, and two chapbooks, including The Anima: Four Closet Dramas (Gauss PDF, 2019).

Born and raised in Chicago, they now live in Pittsburgh.