Emmalea Russo Great Mineral Silence

Label / Atlas / Sputnik & Fizzle
Category / Poetry, Art
Code / 978-0-9976209-3-1

In Russo’s long poem, the speaker engages with George Oppen’s “great mineral silence”, tracing cosmic motions in ordinary life and locating the mineral silence in steel mills, deserts, digital spaces, on the moon, the body, and in relationships. Russo suggests this silence is a supra-human force that the word “love” can attempt to describe. The poem, both cellular and exobiological, seems to hum, as Russo writes, like the “sigh of a sun.” Emmalea Russo is an artist, writer, and astrologer. Her interdisciplinary work focuses on intersections of poetry, media, and cosmology. Her books are G (2018) and Wave Archive (2019). Her essays, reviews, and poetry have appeared in Artforum, American Chordata, BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, Bust, Cosmopolitan, Granta, Gulf Coast, Hyperallergic, Los Angeles Review of Books, SF MOMA’s Open Space, and elsewhere. She lives at the Jersey shore. More here. Jennifer MacBain-Stephens lives in the Midwest and is the author of four full length poetry collections: Your Best Asset is a White Lace Dress, (Yellow Chair Press, 2016), The Messenger is Already Dead, (Stalking Horse Press, 2017,) We’re Going to Need a Higher Fence, tied for first place in the 2017 Lit Fest Book Competition, and The Vitamix and the Murder of Crows, is recently out from Apocalypse Party. Work has been nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize. Recent work can be seen at or is forthcoming from The Pinch, Black Lawrence Press, Quiddity, Prelude, Cleaver, Yalobusha Review, Zone 3, and Grist.

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