orbiculus (Volume IX, The Grammaton Series) by Irene Koronas

In Praise of Irene Koronas’ The Grammaton Series

(orbiculus, Volume IX, chiaroscuros, Volume VIII, gnōstos, Volume VII, siphonic, Volume VI, lithic cornea, Volume V, holyrit, Volume IV, declivities, Volume III, ninth iota, Volume II, Codify, Volume I)

Siphoning from a trajectory of experimental literature, literary and critical theory and the history of an avant-garde poíēsis from pataphysics to algorithmics and beyond, The Grammaton Series is a new hyperminimalist écriture, melding its aporias with a mix of staccato posthumanism, cryptophorics and pataquerics. The Koronas grammaton in The Grammaton Series is fashioned from a panerotism melding parapoíēsis and metapseudepigrapha encoded within the hyperlinks of a retromanic pleroma and a feminine clinamen. Irene Koronas’ The Grammaton Series jubilates over resurrectio, rego, altered to subrigo, above surrexi, then syphoned from surrectum in the perfect amalgam of anastasis and postmemoirica. It is an agonic triumph of misprisionary genius, a metaleptic myth of reincarnation in an Einstein-Rosen Bridge as an antithetical subphylum launching its egg, planula larva, polyp and tryst autoaffection. The Grammaton Seriesis as rapturistic as it is daemonic. Dexterity, agility, finesse and a high, serious hilarity unleash stanzaic androids and gynoids so innovative in their multiplicity as to secrete glossolalia from postdata holy writ, incubating the grand poíēsis for the 21st century.   

—Daniel Y. Harris




Irene Koronas’ internationally acclaimed The Grammaton Series includes orbiculus, Volume IX (BlazeVOX, 2025),  chiaroscuros, Volume VIII (BlazeVOX, 2024), gnōstos, Volume VII (BlazeVOX, 2023), siphonic, Volume VI (BlazeVOX, 2022), lithic cornea, Volume V (BlazeVOX, 2021), holyrit, Volume IV (BlazeVOX, 2019), declivities, Volume III, (BlazeVOX, 2018), ninth iota, Volume II (The Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2018) and Codify, Volume I  (Éditions du Cygne, 2017). The Grammaton Series an evolving, extreme experimental poetry series.

Her collections include Turtle Grass  (Muddy River Books, 2014), Emily Dickinson (Propaganda Press, 2010), Pentakomo Cyprus (Červená Press, 2009), Zero Boundaries  (Červená Press, 2008) and Self Portrait Drawn From Many(Ibbetson Street Press, 2007).

Her collaboratives include heshe egregore (with Daniel Y. Harris, Éditions du Cygne, 2016) and  Di./um  (with Daniel Y. Harris, Smallminded Books, 2016). 

Excerpts from The Grammaton Series as well as from her separate collections and collaborations has been published inAlligatorzine, Argotist Online Poetry, BlazeVOX, The Boston Globe, Buzdokuz, Cambridge Chronicles, DeepSNAKES Techno Poetry Mixtape Project, Die Leere Mitte, D.O.R, E·ratio, Esthesis, Graphic Violence, Hyper-Annotation, Indefinite Space, International Exhibition of Surrealism, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, M58, Marsh Hawk Press Review, New Mystics,Offcourse Literary Journal, Otoliths, perspektive, #Ranger, A Shanghai Poetry Zine, slowforward, SPAMzine,Spreadhead, Stride, Sulfur Surrealist Jungle, Synchronized Chaos, Taos Journal of International Poetry & Art, Utsanga, Version (9) Magazine, Word For/Word  and Xenopoem.

Her paintings have been exhibited in Addison Gallery, Belmont Habitat Gallery, Gallery at Bentley College, The Cambridge Library Gallery, The Greek Institute, The Henri IV Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art & Design, The M & M Gallery, The Ponce Art Gallery, The Somerville Armory and the Tokyo Art Museum.

She is the Editor-in-Chief of Var(2x). Her website is irenekoronas.com.


Book Information:

· Paperback: 110 pages

· Binding: Perfect-Bound

· Publisher: BlazeVOX [books] 

· ISBN: 978-1-60964-516-8

$18