Emoticoncert
Maya Pindyck
Emoticoncert maps intensities and absences across different bodies and scales. Broken up into musical “movements,” the book works as a concert of sensations associated with loss, nationalism, and the slippery boundary between human and animal. Moving across both real and dreamed terrains, Emoticoncert is a dislocated kind of traveling linked by a sonic landscape and a record of entanglements with subjects (countries, friends, strangers, insects, languages) present and gone.
from “7th Grade Science Lesson,” from Emoticoncert:
Ms. Weiss sticks her fist
inside a dead cow’s heart
and wears, for one brilliant minute,
a red boxing glove. Poor
heart, dumb on the table,
to teach us about form:
superior vena cava,
veins, valves, ventricles,
small, empty chambers
where blood once swarmed…
