through time waves by Marcia Arrieta
through time waves by Marcia Arrieta gathers her parallel expressions in poetry and collage. While the poems, both deftly brief and pictorially suggestive, ripple aromas beyond the words themselves, her collages puzzle the incongruous combination with a celebratory feel for interconnection.
“We create trees from invisible poems,” Marcia Arrieta shares. With the purity of a flower, this remarkable textual and visual collection lights the way through “labyrinths and maps” by way of touchstones that propel us “in search of the luminous.” Composition transcends calculation. “Nothing is inconsequential.” “The world is a globe with wings.”
Sheila E. Murphy – poet and visual artist
The collages & poems in “through time waves” are interwoven, “though they are separate entities, not presented in a call & response manner. They do, however, feed off & build on one another — “labyrinths & maps / piecing together / birds & forests” as one of the poems states, an echo of the Borges & Klee quotes that act as epigraph to the book.
These texts & visuals sing & dance — singly, together — to create a delightful entity, reminding us that there is still magic & beauty in the world, &, fortunately, people with the ability to demonstrate it to us. Marcia Arrieta’s “through time waves” is ample evidence of that.
Mark Young – poet, artist, & editor
Through Time Waves – Marcia Arrieta -Arteidolia Press 2022 →
So often poetry is inscrutable—so deeply private one can barely discern its form. Like pebbles on the bed of a stream beneath the moving water—we feel but cannot see them.
Equally inscrutable are the poems of Marcia Arrieta in through time waves. Poems “where the ideal equals vision” we might sense the poet’s intention, but we cannot quite see it.
Read the full review by E. Merwin on Arteidolia →
Marcia Arrieta has been widely published in the small press throughout the years. She is the author of three poetry collections: perimeter homespun (2019) & archipelago counterpoint (2015) BlazeVOX [books], and triskelion, tiger moth, tangram, thyme (2011) Otoliths; as well as four chapbooks: vestiges (2019) & thimbles, threads (2017) dancing girl press; the curve against the linear/ An Uncommon Accord (2008) Toadlily Press; and experimental: (2000) Potes & Poets Press.
through time waves by Marcia Arrieta
ISBN: 978-1-7369983-3-5
Published: April 2022
54 pages
$18
metamorphic contrary
passage verse inventing leaf inventing stone stictching
time inside/outside the wave
patterns windows peninsulas archetypal river
condition existence
I gather twigs or maybe abandoned ideas
Marcia Arrieta is available for poetry readings.
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