Twilight Suites

Aaron Peck

Aaron Peck's sequence is an extended exploration caught between two frames of each moment it addresses, shaping its lines as identity is shaped. Both meditative and precise, shifting from a view of object to the impact of that viewing, Twilight Suites captures the attempt to examine the process of discovery, of understanding, focusing on the intimate recognition of both the profound and the everyday.

Peck's interest in the sensual is here matched by his concern with language. Drawing on influences as diverse as George Oppen and Jacques Derrida, Twilight Suites represents the effort to capture the elusive texture and cadense of moments both simple and intense. Lyrical and yet complex, the poems in this collection are jarring in their attempt to speak the layered and difficult project of making sense of each precarious moment.

aaron peck

Aaron Peck is the author of the chapbook Crepuscule on Mission Street (Nomados, 2006). His novel, The Bewilderments of Bernard Willis, is forthcoming with Pedlar Press. He frequently writes about art; reviews and articles have recently appeared in Fillip, and Canadian Art, and with Adam Harrison he co-edits the online art magazine, Doppelganger. He lives in New York City where he is currently pursuing a PhD.

Read some of Aaron's work in the archive...

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