{"product_id":"eliot-cardinaux-a-species-of-this-invaded-world","title":"Eliot Cardinaux: A Species of This Invaded World","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThere’s a doubled long-poem (think Nate Mackey’s \u003c\/span\u003eMu\/Song of the Andoumboulou\u003cspan\u003e) sounding its way out over the flood plains of the Connecticut River outside Northampton MA. Over a series of volumes published in 2024-5, \u003cstrong\u003eEliot Cardinaux\u003c\/strong\u003e (who has one foot in jazz piano and the other kicking pine needles on a trail in Shutesbury) has been developing a numbered sequence of 3-4 stanza open form poems (often dedicated) alongside their Mile Marker suite. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Species of this Invaded World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003egives us XXVI-L of the first, and miles 72-100 of the second. Mile markers along the highway mark a trip you are always in the midst of, whether you are on foot or in a car. Breaths in and out. Quiet, clear brush-stroke perfect songs (in couplet or 2-3 word lines). The world that is not adequate we have to get through. The work of the walk set to a lyric and its two-step of gratitude, unresolved difficulty, and praise. The numbered suite brings in the larger world of influence and reading — Paul Celan, Michael Palmer, poets or artists Eliot knows or needs to sing to, their lover Shana. Seeing “the sadness already there” alongside “Michael Palmer \/ putting pressure on memory to remind itself \/ of air \/ from the underground springs \/ beneath \/ Walter Benjamin’s Berlin.” The “Small place, there, for \/ memory finding one- \/ self on stage, in shock,” that is also “rainwater’s reverb \/ a distant \/ siren \/ cars rushing by \/ quotidian \/ the wind.” Poems that “Reach out \/ to power with a \/ spell, the tendrils of \/ which are your eyes.” Big music over Emily’s grave.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—David Need, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSweetbitter\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u0026amp; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBroken Windows\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe poems in this book are suffused with urgency and necessity in existential meaning-making. These poems break the barriers between reason and unreason. This poet is an unconventional (stylistically, thematically) explorer of consciousness, friendship, landscape, the miraculous. Eliot Cardinaux’s voices in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Species of This Invaded World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e are unjaded, questioning, vital. We are warned: “but don't be so sure \/ how I feel \/ or what \/ I think of you.” Be ready to be awed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUche Nduka, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBainbridge Island Notebook\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u0026amp; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eTo Umber\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Bodily Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49530391527617,"sku":null,"price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0807\/8786\/5793\/files\/ASpeciesofThisInvadedWorld-COVER.jpg?v=1757424628","url":"https:\/\/bodilypress.com\/products\/eliot-cardinaux-a-species-of-this-invaded-world","provider":"The Bodily Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}