... S& W8

Abstract

...S& W8 is a hybrid text moving in waves vertically down the page, adrift from prose to verse, passing in time through childhood memory and adult reflection. … S& W8 starts with an ontological question on the nature being and hypothesizes similarities between the body, sand, and memory. … S& W8 is never a singular thing, just as a grain of sand - ‘s&’ - stands alone, imperceptible, a bit of grit establishes a memory start unseen. Small kernel, single grain, a seed of s& memory. From small starts grows a flourishing into perceptibility through an increase of plurality. Memories condensed through reflection & sharing, expand in strands by adding more s& from more s& a beachhead. A s&bar grows to benefit our together understanding. … S& W8 weaves the sensational phenomena of first experiences and early memory within the shared history and psychology which is formative to the contours within the family romance. … S& W8 straddles ambiguous edges of perception, teasing out what one actually remembers from what is really just an old story told & retold, … S& W8 , a project leaving lines in dust, marking out a new passages of history on palimpsest … S& W8, an incomplete, not quite memoir of infant encounters & midlife crisis, an effort at recalling the hollow center of life spent wading through waves, swept away under the … S& W8