Surreal-Absurd Sampler Zachary Schomburg

Some of the most exciting poetry and hybrid work being written today is absurdist/surrealist and often minimalist. Every other Monday, I will feature an absurdist/surrealist writer to tickle your fancies. First up, we have Zachary Schomburg.

Here is an artist statement from Zachary:

These poems are from Fjords v2, which is the second volume of a five volume book (fingers crossed) to be written at various stages throughout my life to track my dreams, the dreams of other people, my evolving relationship to my death and love and light, and the prose poem. Like being wide-eyed during a dream, writing Fjords is an exercise in noticing, of being in a moment, and also letting go of that moment. It’s not the job of these poems to make meaning, or to even tell a story, but to track time. Instead of contextualizing, instead of pinning my thoughts to something agreeable and recognizable, I want to make them smaller, so small they’re unburdened by meaning, and just sit there, like an etching of a thought I once had, but have forgotten.

Zachary Schomburg’s most recent book of poems is called Fjords v2, and he also wrote a novel called Mammother. He’s a painter, an illustrator, and a publisher of a small independent press, Octopus Books. He lives in PDX, OR with B and Y.

 Website: zacharyschomburg.net

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