The Bare Bones of Our Alphabet

The Bare Bones of Our Alphabet is a collection of poetry that reveals the all-consuming yearning of poets and literary writers to create and find a language that tells the most about our existence. In this collection, the poet-narrator confronts the knowledge that language is always incomplete, incapable of telling the "whole" about ourselves. The poet is constantly moved by a fundamental impulse: to push and reawaken language, to call meaning to it, meaning beyond what the words on her page may be able to reveal. She uncovers the bare alphabets that know more and seem closer to our primary epistemology, the code not mediated or bound by the languages of the everyday experience. The poems in this collection make us think about the "thing" that is missing in language, the "thing" that is corrupted with and in language, which we are trying to catch in order to be and know more.