And to Ecstasy [electronic resource]

Marjon Mossammaparast2022

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. And To Ecstasy is a poetic journey through space and time, projecting a transcendental element of reality. In her exquisite poems, Marjon Mossammaparast explores the physical experience of being human, bound to four dimensions, matching it with the belief we are also spirit beings. At its core, this work contemplates the desire to move beyond the limitations of bodies, and into an expanded metaphysical notion of identity, carried by intuition. In its arrangement in three parts, the poet uses displaced fragments and mere glimpses; through call and response of landscapes and countries, there is a constancy and insistence of reconciliation. This is the language of the exile: not just geographically transposed, but through a spirit constrained by the physical and seeking return home. “Where all that is vibrant vibrates beyond the sticking place of names to the borderfields where signs change their value: Split a piec...