Reiteration / Relationship

REITERATION / RELATIONSHIP uses poems, flash graphic narratives, and reproductions of Elizabeth Catanese’s original mixed media visual art to offer a case study in heart-tending. Following a loosely chronological arc, this chapbook explores the repetitions and reiterations required of the heart; as with a heartbeat, REITERATION / RELATIONSHIP engages these echoes as proof of endurance and life. Sometimes the heart is comical here, something giant and germy that children climb through at Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute; other times it is the source of existential longing and feminist self-becoming. At its core, this chapbook is an offering to the complicated echoes across relationships-with romantic partners, with one’s parents, and with the mysteries of our origins and futures.