new from above/ground press: The Common Dark, by Mark Goldstein

The Common Dark
Mark Goldstein
$6

EMET

to ward with one’s whole being
to make a question of this

self – across centuries   a passage
from need to entry   in the book –

in-sighting this opening – what resounds 
in an archivist’s home

–

an account in response   the archive

our doing – its aftermath
  elders no compromise

our progenitors’
  silence – an inability to speak

  to that point of exclusion –
forebears this   collapse

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
August 2026
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

[Mark Goldstein launches The Common Dark in Ottawa on August 22 as part of the above/ground press thirty-third anniversary reading/launch/party]

Mark Goldstein is a writer, editor, translator, and graphic artist. His work includes the serial poem Endlossong (forthcoming), his book length translation of poems by Paul Celan, Thricelandium (2024), his transtranslation of Kafka’s novel, The Trial, as Her Process (2021), poems, essays and interviews published as Part Thief, Part Carpenter (2021), his long poem, Form of Forms (2012), which was a finalist for the International Stiftung Buchkunst 2014 competition in Leipzig, as well as his poem collection, Tracelanguage: A Shared Breath (2010), and After Rilke (2008). Moreover, he co-edited AnyWord: A Festschrift for Phil Hall (2024), as well as the virtual anthology Paul Celan/100 (2020). He can be found online at markgoldstein.ca

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