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Moira of Edges, Moira the Tart by Moina Pam Dick

 

In a transposition of 5th-century St. Mary of Egypt’s harlot-turned-desert-ascetic vita to a contemporary setting, Moira of Edges, Moira the Tart reimagines hermitry, penitence, and ardor through the figure of artist and lay philosopher Moira (sometimes Moina) Jones. Part-hagiography, part-künstlerroman in poetic form, Moira of Edges fractures into disclosing edge time: a limned threshold; a vibrating seam; an angular meditation on form, mind, god, sex, the metaphysics of time and perception

 

October 1, 2019 | 80 pp. | $15.95 | 978-0-578-54455-7

“If Marguerite Porete and Blaise Cendrars could agree on anything, it would be the chiming, devoted, never still language of Moira of Edges. These are ecstatic pages.”

—Lucy Ives

“To be once upon four times. To receive the resolute paradox. To compose and be composed of luminous geometries, whoring errors investigating a plane’s edge, and divine destruction on the way forward is to begin—and continue to begin—residing in the world of Moira of Edges, Moira the Tart. But all that wild space and its concerted devotion to releasing unreason is also bound up with a deep dive into loves, love’s enigma, the building of character, and the crazily endless ways the question of how to live never gets to simply be a question. Rhythm, space, floods of consciousness and their various breaks, that oddity time & its apparent surface of definition, the erotic porousness where all the baffling overlap marks living—they all make up the foundation of this wry, brilliant, powerful poem.”

—Anselm Berrigan

 

About the Author:

Moina Pam Dick (aka Misha/Gregoire/Mina Pam Dick, et al.) is the author of this is the fugitive (Essay Press, 2016), Metaphysical Licks (BookThug, 2014), and Delinquent (Futurepoem, 2009). With Oana Avasilichioaei, she is the co-translator of Suzanne Leblanc’s The Thought House of Philippa (BookThug, 2015). Her writing is included in Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (ed. TC Tolbert and Trace Peterson, Nightboat Books, 2013). Also a visual artist and errant philosopher, Dick lives in New York City.