Excavator

The poems of Excavator explore the landscapes of daily life, both those exterior as well as interior, covering ground from the South and Southwest U.S. to Mexico City and Spain. From the daily life full of consumer over-abundance as well as treasured family heirlooms, from the nocturnal suburban moonscape to the blazing rural stretch of highway, from the cluttered bedroom to the chaotic disarray of the mind, these poems excavate legacies of meaning and value inherited from the late 20th century that bloomed into the spectacular, technological revolution of the 21st century's first two decades. Through these poems, the reader travels landscapes of daily life and their multi-tiered sedimentation of memory, the present, and consciousness of future, watching the lines sensually wind and frenetically writhe between sites of meaning such as home, work, family, and travel. The voice in these pages works to wrest the agency of signification from the structures that wield it in our world of media, technology, power, and consumerism and return it to the individual and their capacity for forming profound connections between themself and the world around them. What these poems ultimately seek is the ongoing explosion of a language that never settles back into its own patterns, that continually searches for new connections and means for renewal, thereby returning the reader continually to the site of formation where all possibilities become generative once again.