Kimberly Alidio Read Bio Collapse
Kimberly Alidio is the author of four poetry books: Teeter, why letter ellipses, : once teeth bones coral :, and after projects the resound, as well as ROOM TONE (Belladonna* Chaplet #297). Her fifth book of prose poems is forthcoming, and she is currently writing poetic-critical essays on contemporary diasporic art, film, and sound. She writes and teaches on Munsee-Mohican and Lenape lands along the Mahicannituck River, otherwise known as New York’s Hudson Valley.
Launch of e-flux journal #144
# 144
Music is a kind of sound, and poetry is a kind of language. Sounds are arranged into music, as language is arranged into poetry. But what’s considered “musical” or “poetic” moves us beyond formal arrangement, beyond even their respective media, into the realms of discourse. The sense of what’s “musical” and what’s “poetic” can differ and can definitely vary, but generally one looks to be moved, or even transported, into realms of feeling, spirit, and memory. This is the lyrical mode: the ancient lyre shaped words—lyrics—into rhythmic and tonal patterns to give us poem forms—elegies, odes, sonnets—carrying song through language’s musically inflected prosodies.