Thresholes

"Thresholes refers to threshholds and also hole. Thinking about thresholds as a doorway into or out of someting, that makes sense with this book, which really is a roadmap, or maybe road journal, of Lara thinking through, thinking about, something: of her and her family's past, of a particular past trauma that happened to her and to a very close friend, thinking and writing and working to go back to those memories, those events, to re-enter the past of the 70s and 80s and what certain artists in the Bronx were doing then. What is the threshold between now and then, and how can the poet be the bridge between the two. And the holes of the thresholes, literally also the spaces left by trauma, the emptiness, the feminine, literal garbage pits/holes, artists working to highlight the lack of things, what is gone, what is missing in the Bronx. All these things are explored through a weaving of fragments that combine journal-like writing with journalism, description, memories, exposition, fragments of original text, and descriptions of art by Sophie Calle, Asako Narahashi, Gordon Matta-Clark, Richard Serra, and many other mentions of books, movies, performances, mostly if not all from either the present informing the past for Lara, or from the past informing her present"--