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Dark Things Have Their Origin In Myself

February 25, 2016 by Erica Mena

[or notes on reading about the gothic] A few months  I decided it was high time I stopped denying my ultra-goth aesthetic leanings and instead turn fully into exploring them. This was mostly thanks to the phenomenal collection of essays Dark Museum by Maria Negroni, translated by Michelle Gil-Montero and published by Action Books. I can’t recommend it highly enough. I realized that there is perhaps a way of approaching the gothic as a latinx that would allow me to circumvent the […]

Categories: Reading Journal • Tags: darkness, gothic, poetry

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The End of Night by Paul Bogard

April 22, 2014 by Erica Mena

I’ve never really been afraid of the dark, which is odd because I’m an anxious person in general and the dark is a primal fear. I’m clinically phobic of spiders, and of heights, and it turns out thanks to a good friend one summer I was able to prioritize those fears. I am more afraid of spiders than of heights. We were on a bus day-trip into Albania, to see the spectacular ruins at Butrint, curving along narrow dirt roads. […]

Categories: Reviews • Tags: dark, dark sky week, darkness, light, light pollution, light tresspass, paul bogard, review, the end of night

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4 Percent Universe by Richard Panek

March 23, 2014 by Erica Mena

I have an amateur’s interest in physics and astronomy. I once took a class (and still have the course book) called Physics for Poets. I’m ok but not brilliant at math, but love the abstract thinking, the scientific deduction and inference, of rigorous attempts to understand the world (at whatever scale). This is the kind of book that is written for someone like me – an understanding, or at least an ability to understand, some pretty complex theoretical concepts if […]

Categories: Reading Journal • Tags: 4 percent universe, astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology, dark energy, dark matter, darkness, non-fiction, physics, richard panek, science

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Darkness at Night by Edward Harrison

August 1, 2013 by Erica Mena

A few months ago I used the word “dark” in a poem, and brought it into my workshop. I knew it was a risk, there are a number of words that are more or less off limits to ‘serious’ poets. In fact, there are so many words that are off limits to poets that it’s hard to categorize them, or say generally what makes them off limits. For the most part it’s overuse – which gives an easiness to the […]

Categories: Reviews • Tags: astronomy, darkness, math, olber's paradox, poetry, science

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IT'S ALWAYS SUNSET IN THIS PLACE, 2021. French knots hand embroidered on antique photograph of Punkaharju, Finland. One of the new (k)not work pieces that will be for sale this week.
New work about to be dropped for sale this week. First to my @patreon patrons, then to my email newsletter (link in bio), then here on Instagram. Work from this new w@nder series, and some new (k)not work pieces too.
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