Author: Craig Dworkin

Craig Dworkin is the author, most recently, of The Pine-Woods Notebook (Kenning Editions (2019) and two scholarly monographs: Dictionary Poetics: Toward a Radical Lexicography (Fordham, 2020) and Radium of the Word: A Poetics of Materiality (Chicago, 2020). He teaches literary history and theory at the University of Utah and curates the Eclipse archive: www.eclipsearchive.org
Poet in Residence: Craig Dworkin
Clock
Issue 1 Posted by Craig Dworkin

Clock Tick. Tock. Lock snap. Clock clasp clicks. Diecast cogs acquit their tasks. Gears chew with congruent, tooth-meshed, lockstep movements. Twitching in staggered, ratcheted laps of agitated fits they spin in graduated advance. A pocket tachometer of the planet’s orbital engine tracks its path and predicts its lot as the taut spring’s tension slackens. The…

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