Light Light

Moving from the Enlightenment science of natural history to the contemporary science of global warming, Light Light is a provocative engagement with the technologies and languages that shape discourses of knowing. It bridges the histories of botany, empire, and mind to take up the claim of objectivity as the dissolution of a discrete self and thus explores the minds movement toward and with the world. The poems in Light Light range from the epigrammatic to the experimental, from the narrative to the lyric, consistently exploring the way language captures the undulation of a minds working, how that rhythm becomes the embodiment of thought, and how that embodiment forms a politics engaged with the environment and its increasing alterations.

Light Light puts the hive back in the archive, the source in the resource. Through Joostens miraculous mode of attending, through this mind that grounds sound to seed, we are elemented – The mind is a mood of electricity, warmth, water, and wind. We are given a mode of attending that is precarious, is an enactment of the precariousness we are and, with consequence, institute. Each thing this attention falls upon is a source of thought, not its object. So everything is light once we learn to see by it. To honor the field we should leave the field, but this book we should never leave.
– Jane Gregory