Archive Pelagic

Abstract

Archive Pelagic collects poems recounting how the desire for containment and cohesion materializes in unforeseen and unsettling ways at the convergence of the Pacific and the Visayan Philippine. Dwelling upon this zone where the binding of humans and nonhumans most strongly pivots on the drive and drag of the sea, the suite experiments on (archi) pelagic figurations that attempt to articulate the continuities between stories and histories across scales of body, place, and planet.