Beloved Integer

by Michelle Naka Pierce

Poetry. "This marvelous book, so light on all its hands and feet, so assured in the delicacy of its unwavering precision...BELOVED INTEGER presents its visitors/voyagers with a complex adaptive system of memory and desire, a kind of visible city rich in 'variably negotiated moments of production,' in 'oceanic felling,' in 'dialogues in solitude,' in easy energy and hard-earned matter, fearlessly held up to the light, which adumbrates the deepest territories of the heart"--Laird Hunt.

Genres: Poetry

80 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2007

About the author

Michelle Naka Pierce is the author of Continuous Frieze Bordering Red, awarded the POL Editor's Prize (Fordham, 2012); She, A Blueprint, a text/image document with collage art by Sue Hammond West (2011); Beloved Integer (2007); and co-author of TRI/VIA with Veronica Corpuz (2003). She has lived in Yokohama, Japan; London, UK; and currently teaches writing at Naropa University in Boulder, CO, where she is the director of the Jack Kerouac School.

Interview: http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/Summer08/...

Reviews

[Marissa Perel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Check out my review with Michelle Naka
Pierce in the Summer 2008 issue of Tarpaulin
Sky or on Ron Silliman's blog.

Don't miss out on hybrid love!

[Kelly · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really love the idea of this work as an ode to a far away lover.

Interestingly, Pierce's partner has also published a work that is the counterpart to this--as a direct response to this work. So I would like to see both and take a look at how these texts work together.

I find this work interesting as a measure of numbers and time away from a lover. It keeps asking: How do we measure time? Only in reference to something else?

My only disappointment is that I felt like the text was too short. I feel that Pierce could have expanded the idea of this work and these passages into a lengthier piece.

[Dusie Press · Rating 5 out of 5]

beautiful book, i've just begun and love it already...though feel strangely voyeristic...makes me want to pull out (or download) Chris Pusateri's North of There, isthat wrong???