Debrah Morkun is the author of Ida Pingala (BLAXEVOX, $16 pb)

Debrah Morkun's newest work is a magickal document of time, memory and apparition. It builds upon the waste and war that we are told is in our nature to create a voice that resists that very notion. Morkun is a seer of mythos in the quotidian & a critic of crusade culture. Here is call to build shrines atop toilets and engage the laureled dead, revealing the symbols that rationalize their passing. Here is a tension rooted in the struggle to speak, a birthing pang that comes into the world as song. Up comes the breath to pronounce rough exhalations of ancestry, insisting on redemptive possibilities amidst the dread that precedes and surrounds us. The Ida Pingala insists that now is the time to sing.

~ Frank Sherlock