For some there are every, for some there are none is an attempt to reconcile several things at once. I spent time thinking about the tangibility of one's own dimensions and problems, and how this rubbed along with (or against)  communal and political despair. Reading it back, various motifs are there: something about gods, something about ghosts. I think there's a bit of Samuel R. Delany and M John Harrison in the mix. In short, it's about grievability, pasted in a plain text mode. 

This work contains sections from a longer manuscript, begun in October 2023 during the most recent genocidal campaign in Palestine. The 'origin' poem is forthcoming in Pamenar Press's online journal. Each section follows a procedure to disfigure the work. “Disfigurations 2” is a transcript of a constraint-based voice recording of “Disfigurations 1”. “Disfigurations 4” is the result of a machine translation of “Disfigurations 2” from English to Arabic to English to Arabic to English. Dedicated to those who have died and those who continue to fight for a free Palestine.

Thom Eichelberger-Young is an artist, mental health caregiver, and publisher living in Buffalo, New York. Their works include the long poems BESPOKE (Saint Andrew’s University Press), ANTIKYTHERA (antiphony), and a forthcoming work of political aesthetic theory, OINTMENT WEATHER: INSURGENT POIETICS AMIDST DESPERATE TIMES (CLOAK.wtf). They operate Blue Bag Press. 

Jennifer Soong is the author of poetry books Comeback Death (2024), Suede Mantis / Soft Rage (2022), and My Earliest Person, forthcoming with The Last Books in 2025. Her critical monograph Slips of the Mind: Poetry as Forgetting is also forthcoming this spring with the University of Chicago Press.