Catachresis

by Jared Daniel Fagen (Editor), Will Alexander (Contributor), Kimberly Alidio (Contributor)

Featuring Will Alexander, Kimberly Alidio, Martine Bellen, Stanislav Belsky, Anselm Berrigan, David Buuck, Garrett Caples, Sam Cha, César Dávila Andrade, Logan Fry, Lawrence Giffin, Tilghman Alexander Goldsborough, E. Tracy Grinnell, Karen Holman, Elise Houcek, Andrew Joron, Inna Krasnoper, Carlos Lara, Jonathan Larson, Sueyeun Juliette Lee, Michael Leong, Douglas A. Martin, olga mikolaivna, Sheila E. Murphy, Ann Pedone, Sal Randolph, Martha Ronk, Jonathan Simkins, Christophe Tarkos, Edwin Torres, Christina Vega-Westhoff, Wendy Xu, & John Yau

252 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2025

About the author

Jared Daniel Fagen is the author of The Animal of Existence (Black Square Editions, 2022). His poems, prose, and conversations have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Fence, Lana Turner, and Asymptote, among other publications. He is an adjunct assistant professor of poetry in the Writing MFA program at Columbia University, an adjunct lecturer in English at the City College of New York, a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center, and the editor and publisher of Black Sun Lit. Born in Jeollanam-do, South Korea, he lives in Brooklyn and the western Catskills.

Reviews

[Avery Marley · Rating 5 out of 5]

Vestiges, 07: Catachresis is a striking exploration of language’s power to evoke absence, longing, and uncanny beauty. Edited by Jared Daniel Fagen, the anthology gathers a diverse group of voices ,Will Alexander, John Yau, Martine Bellen, and many more, whose work experiments with catachresis, bending metaphor and syntax to uncover new emotional and philosophical terrains. The collection is at once rigorous and sensuous, balancing intellectual precision with lyric intensity, and invites readers to reconsider the very instruments of thought and feeling: words themselves.