Through inventive wordplay and experimental forms, Edwin Torres creates vital work that challenges perception, engages urban and diasporic experience, and pushes language beyond conventional boundaries; so you can imagine how delighted I am to share Torres’s advance praise for Nomad Science (Spuyten Duyvil Press), my forthcoming collection of poetry:
“There is a science to the unfolding rhizome, a quantum tenderness to a poet’s search engine, asking what it means to nomad through no-madness. With this book, John Madera treats the poet as an emotion-adjacent superbeing, compared to mere human neighbors, giving us a newly conjured surrounding to exist in—’my imagination, / Supersonic, soaring, making time and space for space-time.’ To shroud fellow searchers with implication is to render a thousand and one nights their backlog. As a dystopian Scheherazade evoking prana for the digital citizenship, Madera weaves Blanchot into Stevens into Hemingway into cyber-gogue with a breathless rush of words unearthed from our programmed errata, knowing that language will survive us, as both savior and mineshaft. ‘To be at the end of the world is to be at the beginning of another one,’ Madera writes. Pay heed wanderers, Nomad Science is a love note for the dominant requiem.”
—Edwin Torres, author of Feel Recordings in the Evershift and Quanundrum: i will be your many angled thing (winner of a 2022 American Book Award)
JOHN MADERA—Writer, Editor, Publisher 