A MISCELLANY OF DIVERSE THINGS - Tecno-Libro

Surgery is not simply a medical procedure. Surgery can also be a dissection when absent of an intent to treat and correct, the procedure becomes a hungry curiosity to examine and investigate. At its purest, a dissection intricately probes to behold the internal. Kobylarz practices this surgery of delicate incisions in his mA©lange. The essence of a miscellany of diverse things is not merely to catalog a wunderkammer of everyday objects, but moreover to hold up a double mirror: one to reveal the interior lives of objects, and another to reflect the depths of their creators and owners. Kobylarz s poetry may initially elevate the mundane, but its deepest design is to ask what the human possession divulges about the human being. The quotidian isn t only ecstatic. the quotidian is a book of revelations. With nods to Flaubert s . Le Dictionnaire des idA©es Recues .and Bierce s . Devil s Dictionary , Kobylarz moves beyond a contain