Decomposition in Three Acts
Poetry by:
JORDAN CHESNUT
Excerpts from:“Diary: A Decomposition in Three Acts”
These poems are excerpts from a longer manuscript which performs a decomposition of a family member's Civil War diary and includes characters, a dramatic preface, three acts with exposition, and footnotes. The slashes are the mycelium threads from an (ASCII) mushroom.
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These poems are excerpts from a longer manuscript which performs a decomposition of a family member's Civil War diary and includes characters, a dramatic preface, three acts with exposition, and footnotes. The slashes are the mycelium threads from an (ASCII) mushroom.
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Bio:
Jordan Chesnut (she, they) is the author of How Gross, My Seances (Plays Inverse, 2021), a psychodrama and verse play. The manuscript was shortlisted for the 2019 Tarpaulin Sky Book Award. Her creative writing has been featured in the Jacket2 "Extreme Texts" feature, Soft Surface, among others, and her critical essay-in-parts is published in The Adroit Journal. She leads a "Poetics of Queer Ecology" course through the Hyperlink Academy, a group for the experimental study of contemporary "eco-poetry" through animal justice, queer/feminist, and decolonial theory.
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