Scale by Mina Gorji Angela Livingstone a million silver spiders play

a million silver spiders play dead

from the reverberations of dead poets to murmurs of the heart which force the poet to dwell on the irregular beat of the poet’s lot

an ‘echo sonnet’

not to mention the events and circumstances which are beyond their control

recovering a notable one-time poet

Scale by Mina Gorji Angela Livingstone a million silver spiders playAt 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,