Scale by Mina Gorji Angela Livingstone a wide-ranging and rich series

a wide-ranging and rich series of poems

Carol Rumens

and the catastrophe

exultant and belligerent

recovering a notable one-time poet

Scale by Mina Gorji Angela Livingstone a wide-ranging and rich seriesAt the volcano's edge, in exilic space, at the bottom of the Arctic Sea, or in the acid clouds of Venus, Mina Gorji's Scale traces life at its limits. The poems range across scales of distance, temperature and time, from vast to minute, glacial to volcanic, Pleistocene to present day, constellation to millipede. Adapting to the cold of a new continent opens a chromatic investigation of feeling. Shifting between scales, from insect to ancient star,