The Naif Olivia Elias chiming the hours in a

chiming the hours in a chorus against empire

Melgard’s work cleaves personal agency from automated defaults by mapping trauma and technocracy from the inside out

and urban and wilderness environments

that it becomes an altar

is a cycle of sixty-one Arabic poems

The Naif Olivia Elias chiming the hours in aValerie Hsuing The Naif lives in a practiced state of naivetya language fasted, resource starved loopand it lives as a test: of what awareness, what becoming, what imagination is possible under the scarcest of conditions, conditions that can make it impossible to deceive or beguile (others or oneself). It is a book as glass house reversed, where the person walking by can see all the way in, but the person inside cant see halfway outand yet the person