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Trevor Losh-Johnson, one of our regular contributors, has recently published an original hybrid book of lyric\u00a0 poetry and prose. It is a brilliant piece of writing, with many remarkable high points and outstanding passages. In an email Trevor described it to me this way:<\/p>\n

In Cabazon<\/em> is a gothic pastoral spun out of a setting that by any exercise of rationale should be fictional. Cabazon, a dusty hamlet in California, is home to the world’s only creationist museum to be housed in the bowels of a dinosaur. A fusion of verse and prose, the narrative roves through the suburban sprawl of Southern California and into the heart of Western wastelands. In Cabazon <\/em>\u00a0is of and for Californian deserts.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>By gothic pastoral, I mean a nightmarish story split formally between two poles, the lyric and the narrative. Each relates to the other. The lyric side starts with an invocation to build a church in a boundless, chaotic desert, to delimit sacred space. It then transitions into a journey through a museum, in which the attempt at building a space like a cathedral to contain all creation has changed into an attempt to record and preserve the things that have been lost to time. The narrative side follows a man’s search for his lost wife, and makes a similar transition into loss, but with a twist. It is a very hallucinogenic piece of writing, extremely ironic and revelatory at the same time, ambitious, doomed to failure, entirely in keeping with the spirit of a desert city with concrete dinosaurs espousing creationist ideology.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/em>The book was edited and published by Jeffrey Douglas, a PhD candidate here at McMaster, and a brilliant young writer himself. <\/em>All content is copyrighted by BlankSpace Publications, 2012. <\/em>For more on the book and BlankSpace Publications, go here<\/a>, here<\/a>, and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here is a sampler:<\/p>\n

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29.i.<\/p>\n

At the Cabazon museum a single room<\/p>\n

Contained two antechambers, sun and moon<\/p>\n

And I took the latter through a purple veil<\/p>\n

Silent and dim the chamber led past a mural<\/p>\n

As on a cave\u2019s wall down unintended steps<\/p>\n

A plesiosaur suspended in the deep<\/p>\n

Caught a darting fish with needleteeth<\/p>\n

And past the mural encased upon the wall<\/p>\n

A fossilfrieze of curled bones in rock<\/p>\n

As boulders pebble the surface of shallow lakes<\/p>\n

And diagrammed beside the osseous heap<\/p>\n

A map depicting how the mother lay<\/p>\n

And where to note the bones in the uterine wall<\/p>\n

Beside that broken eggs or stomach stones<\/p>\n

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30.iii.<\/p>\n

In the oilhot temple smells of olive and cedar<\/p>\n

Climb along the columns to erect<\/p>\n

The prehistoric past with carved dinonecks<\/p>\n

Inhabited of old Titans, serpentine and follicular<\/p>\n

Those cornices seethed and the room suffused with green<\/p>\n

And while the herd milled like scattered palms<\/p>\n

A pack, bipedal carnivores, lurked and surveyed<\/p>\n

At once took casually the nearest calf<\/p>\n

And exerted after others but the mothers<\/p>\n

Trampled many\u2014one both dazed and hurt<\/p>\n

Pressed its snout to its partner\u2019s neck and found<\/p>\n

Gashes and spongiform tissue\u2014ponderously<\/p>\n

Their knees sank beneath buckling weights to the mud<\/p>\n

And let the carcasses rot in the fetid place<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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