Echo Studies - by R Kolewe (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

There's geology & there's walking

through it empty

these

are not field notes. Not indexical.

Imagining the other shore after.

Echo Studies is a meditative, often lyrical settler engagement with colonized land. In three linked sequences, it mixes casual, observational notes with more scientific vocabulary, especially ecological and geological language, using a variety of experimental linguistic processes (including formal constraints, repetition, and randomization). The result is a lyric contemplation that replaces argument with a resonant structure of bright fragments. Interrogating ideas about "nature," Echo Studies asks whether a landscape can be known apart from language, creating a site where questions unravel.