new from above/ground press: The Deaf Forest of Cosmic Scaffolding, by Lina Ramona Vitkauskas

The Deaf Forest of Cosmic Scaffolding
Lina Ramona Vitkauskas
$6

I have forgotten the world

And what I wanted in it
anyway love was what 
anyone wanted the way 
a mist or these myths
wanted the way love is or
I was that way or any mist
and you were my moss bed
and these birch ringing
out any myths of love,
made in these woods
and were green; I wanted, 
anyway, a home with you 
us there for moments and myths, 
and the moss of my love wanted 
a ringing green, birch and love
the way anyone wanted.

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
July 2025
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

[Lina Ramona Vitkauskas launches this title in Ottawa on August 7, 2025 as part of the above/ground press 32nd anniversary reading/launch at RedBird Live; tickets available]

cover drawing by Larry Sawyer, design by the author

Lina Ramona Vitkauskas is a Canadian-American-Lithuanian formerly from Chicago, living in Toronto. She is an award-winning, published poet and video poet. She was a 2020 recipient of a PEN America grant for her development of an experimental poetry collection that adapted poems from Vsevolod Nekrasov and Bill Knott. She was also the voice of George Maciunas’ mother in the documentary, GEORGE (directed by Jeffrey Perkins) screened at MoMA and in Vilnius. Her work has been most recently featured in/at: Film Video Poetry Society (Los Angeles); Octopus Film Festival (Gdansk, Poland); John Gagné Contemporary Gallery (Toronto): Post-Future Era with Kunel Gaur, Justin Neely, and Confusions (Ben Turner); Poetic Phonotheque (Denmark); MOCA Toronto (public installation); SIFF (Moldova); Newlyn Film Festival (UK); Festival Fotogenia (Mexico); Midwest Poetry Fest (US); Vienna Video Poetry Festival (Austria); and the International Migration & Environmental Film Festival (Canada). Her website is linaramona.com.

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