A fascinating collection of serious and playful poems that tap the
inventive possibilities of the anagram and other constraining forms
In Stet, poet Dora Malech takes constraint as her catalyst and
subject, exploring what it means to make or break a vow, to create
art out of a life in flux, to reckon with the body's bounds, and to
arrive at a place where one might bear and care for another life.
Tapping the inventive possibilities of constrained forms,
particularly the revealing limitations of the anagram, Stet is a
work of serious play that brings home the connections and
intimacies of language. "Stet," from the Latin for "let it stand,"
is a proofreading term meaning to retain or return to a previous
phrasing. The uncertainty of changes made and then reconsidered
haunts Stet as its poems explore what is left unsaid through
erasures, redaction, and the limitations of spelling. How does one
"go back" on one's word or "stand by" one's decisions? Can a life
be remade or revised, or is the past forever present as in a
palimpsest? Embodying the physicality and reproductive potentiality
inherent in the collection's forms and figures, Stet ends
expectantly, not searching for closure but awaiting the messy,
living possibilities of what comes next. By turns troubling and
consoling, Stet powerfully combines lyric invention and brilliant
wordplay.
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