Inch Aeons is a meditation on the form of meaning, the nature of nature, and the locality of tradition in an over-wired-world. Here, award-winning poet Nuala Archer adopts, breaks and recreates the limits of haiku, evoking moments of collision and convergence, from “Beyond Conception— / Without Regeneration— / Big Bang’s Leave let Be” to “Am-Is-Are—Was-Were— / Has-Have-Had—Do-Does-Did—Shall- / Should—Can-Could—Will-Would—.” These are poems, as poet Pam Ore says in the Introduction, “like starlight, resonat[ing] with the brightness of an original violence, cooling-healing and coalescing into the word.” Illustrated by Japanese artist Tamzo, and framed with an image from Molly Corey’s Family of Man Project, the poems in Inch Aeons are cracked and beautiful, fragmented and fully-formed as the world they come from.

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