Scale by Mina Gorji Ian McDonald They demand it

They demand it

In the Lateness of the World is a dark book of crossings

and ends with a speech towards modernist Malagasy poet Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo

under the constellations of aircraft holding patterns

Scale by Mina Gorji Ian McDonald They demand itAt the volcano's edge, in exilic space, at the bottom of the Arctic Sea, or in the acid clouds of Venus, Mina Gorji's Scale traces life at its limits. The poems range across scales of distance, temperature and time, from vast to minute, glacial to volcanic, Pleistocene to present day, constellation to millipede. Adapting to the cold of a new continent opens a chromatic investigation of feeling. Shifting between scales, from insect to ancient star,