We are ecstatic to announce our newest title, BELATED POEM by Heidi Van Horn, a book-length sequence of text + image diptychs distilling landscape, color, and language into a poetics of interiority. Join us in celebrating the book launch of this special project on November 9, 4pm, at The Bindery in San Francisco, where the author will be joined by DLP editor Sarah Heady and fiction writer Nancy Au!

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Belated Poem speaks in a mesmerizing incantation of precision and haunting as it seeks to observe and record the vast geographies of the interstices between people. A poet with a barometer, a scientist in a fugue state, Van Horn converges photography, text, and space in order to trace the complicated textures of intimacy and distance, attachment and rupture, amid the debris of an altered relationship. From the subtle doubling in her photographs and the spatial undertow of her lines emerges a lyrical sequence that, in its unearthing of “your body next to mine at the event horizon,” also unearths the inconsolable beauty of the interior terrain and those places that are hardest to voice. —Jennifer S. Cheng
Belated Poem greets time after its becoming—exceeding a certain intensity—a relational experience or a lesson that befalls us in space. In the aftermath of “the jade- / blue slope of a line” or “the cusp of the caldera,” we become offspring of the “event horizon.” Here are vital forces—landscape, creative, combinatorial—shifting, intimate, foreshadowing and spilling us into “catastrophic events” or “a nest / out of dark matter.” Image and poem in this beautiful sequence confirm the open-ended aliveness of traces and our distributed brave interface with the world. —Hazel White