Scale by Mina Gorji Angela Livingstone In Miriam’s poem

In Miriam’s poem

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

an ‘echo sonnet’

exultant and belligerent

and the catastrophe

Scale by Mina Gorji Angela Livingstone In Miriam’s poemAt 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,