In another life, like his dayjob, Edwin does it in graphic design. SandHommeNomadNo takes on the quest of getting the supple into the page, making the old chewed tree gasp with life, utilizing a dense structure that allows you to see the hearing of the poem by never losing a word as it breaks and spins, plates twirling on a rod, world without end. There is no Table of Contents. I count 16 poems, including the back cover. It s a bubble bath where the bubbles pop open waterfalls, which then evaporate to more bubbles over and over.
Torres puts a gauzy translucent page in the center of the book.
Like the tissue paper welcome page in the mimeo books of the 70s, like Laurence Sterne's misplaced marbled page in Tristam Shandy , the empty sheet adds an inside inside, a cover in the center. As the book begins to yield, these graphics become poems themselves. In Torresland, you can read the paintings. Don t be fooled. You have been warned.