Harbour Grids

A visually and lyrically beautiful debut that celebrates the landscapes we take for granted.


Harbour Grids
is a long poem in four parts that investigates ideas of community and
belonging. Beginning as a meditation on the surface of New York Harbor,
the poem radiates outward through issues of labour, location, history,
belonging, and subjectivity. How do we experience our complex relations
to the world we live in? Harbour Grids seeks to answer this
question by combining Stephen Ratcliffe’s attention to daily observation
and formal repetition, Lyn Hejinian’s investigations of the linguistic
structures, Larry Eigner’s textural sense of language and compositional
space of the page, and Juliana Spahr’s ethical attention to the ways we
inhabit the world.