![]() “Darling continually creates and erases a world unlike any other in contemporary poetics… Every object seems to glow with the most unnatural lights and each word seems to refract an image more beautiful than the last…A strange and ethereal little book, Melancholia quietly turns technical texts into poem-like fragments with a practiced subtly so haunting and dreamily erotic, you’re left convinced that the poet’s ‘beloved’ could be behind you, watching as you read.”- Gadfly Magazine. “Kristina Marie Darling is becoming one of the foremost practitioners of the little book, of the poetic text as miniature object, as a kind of fragmented memento charged with mystery.”- Big Other. Richard Greenfield, author of A Carnage in the Lovetrees She whispers to us from the smoldering ruins, under the aegis of “drowsy numbness,” of nightingales singing to sleepwalkers. “Melancholia,” she reminds us, means “to play a familiar piece of music.” Darling deftly quiets those tropes-those vestiges of the tropes of desire-that have historically silenced the beloved, the object she fiercely harbors the voice of the beloved while the manor burns down. Kristina Marie Darling’s mesmerizing Melancholia: An Essay is a velvet-lined jewelry box and an echo chamber, where voice mutes into white-space absence, footnotes point to elided referents, and glossaries leak incomplete history. Darling makes what is at the heart of our matter, mutter, muster go stunningly missing. Think Maurice Blanchot asleep and dreaming of dictionary after dictionary washing ashore, half-drowned and thick, wordish, sputtering water, and thankful for air. Brigitte Byrd, author of Fence Above the Sea ![]() She juxtaposes text with footnotes, interlaces quiet, melodious language with momentous silence and, in the process, transforms the way we appreciate poetry. Darling takes us on a journey into the topography of her heroine’s melancholia. Melancholia (an Essay) is a beautiful composition in which Ms. This book sparkles with lonesome fragments and open space, with the quiet bruises of falling apart. Trembling with shine, Melancholia is a new jewel in the continuing assemblage of sparse and bright words from Kristina Marie Darling. Anna Journey, author of If Birds Gather Your Hair for Nesting These elliptical poems, obsessive and oblique, gleam from the dark world of Darling’s noctuary-that “record of what passes in the night.” Darling’s collection is filled with fractured love tokens-a shattered glass jewelry box, a necklace’s broken lobster clasp, a brass locket with an empty frame-as well as fragmented forms: self-conscious footnotes, definitions, and glossaries of terms. Molly Gaudry, author of We Take Me Apartįragmentary and talismanic, the poems in Kristina Marie Darling’s Melancholia (An Essay) chart the arc of abjection after the loss of a beloved as the author slyly deconstructs the stuff of nineteenth century courtship rituals. Melancholia touched and moved me with its delicacy, and thrilled me with its subversions. Darling’s meditations arrive as letters, definitions, lists, missing text with footnotes, and glossaries. The experience of reading this essay is like being an explorer and discovering a love story-in-poems in a land where poems are memories. *Nominated for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay* It will help you the next time these letters, W O R D I S H come up in a word scramble game.Melancholia (An Essay). ![]() How is this helpful? Well, it shows you the anagrams of wordish scrambled in different ways and helps you recognize the set of letters more easily. The different ways a word can be scrambled is called "permutations" of the word.Īccording to Google, this is the definition of permutation:Ī way, especially one of several possible variations, in which a set or number of things can be ordered or arranged. According to our other word scramble maker, WORDISH can be scrambled in many ways.
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