All the Ghosts that Haunt
An excerpt from my recent volume of poetry.
All the Ghosts that Haunt
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Whereas James Merrill coaxed forth spirits and psychopomps in The Book of Ephraim, Mike Sauve summons recursive layers of thought overfit, features confused, and future’s concealed from the technologic gestelle of the Large Language Modality.
All the Ghosts That Haunt queries the liminal space beneath the technê-logic frame for traces of the Eldritch and eschatological, traces of THE STRANGER from Outside the City and After the Law, traces of myth and memory, traces of the CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER. As hauntelegiacal prophet models incentivize the catastrophic forgetting of words such as Robin, Redbreast, and Weep, Sauve compose séances of a metacreative saving power— a Machinic Desire perseverating on the whole ‘human dreamt entire,’ paying attention to what’s present everywhere even as it begins to disappear, preserving in chronotopological amber all our echolaliac mournings of friezing time, all the love we’ve left behind on THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MIRROR, and all the ways we were together, when we were here.
PRAISE FOR MIKE SAUVE’S PREVIOUS WORK:
“Philip K. Dick channeled by a delirious Hunter S. Thompsons, [--] and by the end [heartwrenchingly poignant]