Chorus

Poems that incorporate multiple voices to embrace fragmentation, discord, and plurality.

At a time of simultaneous isolation and interconnection, this book is an inquiry into the edges of the self. Pushing back on capitalist messages of individuality, CHORUS instead seeks the multifaceted self that engages with the radical diversity that characterizes any healthy ecosystem or society. Moving between a remote canyon in New Mexico, the Pacific Northwest, New York City, the virtual world, the past, and the unstable future, the author asks, "Whose afterimage am I?"

The sprawling, celebratory, mourning chorus of this book is the sum of many voices; the words of other writers, poets, and artists are interwoven with the author's words. This is a celebration of language's capacity to supersede bodily limits, mortality, and existential loneliness. Daniela Naomi Molnar's chorus encompasses violence, love, empathy, fear, a burning planet, a pandemic, heartbreak, desire, joy, and grief. Rather than seeking resolution, these poems look through the lens of a fragmented self, dwelling in plurality, discord, and harmony.

CHORUS is the winner of Omnidawn's 1st /2nd Book Prize, judged by Kazim Ali.


Author: Daniela Naomi Molnar
Publisher: Omnidawn
Published: 01/20/2023
Pages: 110
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 8.82h x 5.91w x 0.47d
ISBN13: 9781632431110
ISBN10: 1632431114
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | Women Authors
- Poetry | American | General

About the Author
Daniela Naomi Molnar is a wilderness guide, educator, and artist working with writing, painting, and site-specific intervention. She founded the Art + Ecology program at the Pacific Northwest College of Art and is a backcountry instructor with Signal Fire. She lives in Portland, Oregon.