Ruminate Emergent by Daniel Talamantes

RUMINATE EMERGENT is the 2023 Desert Pavilion Chapbook Contest Winner. Desert Pavilion is a collaborative publication between Black Rock Press and the Creative Writing MFA at University of Nevada, Reno. Of Talamantes' collection, the 2023 contest judge Raquel Gutiérrez writes, "Throughout the extended references to the tyrannies and demands of a supply chain and its weakening links, this collection is filled in with power grids charged with emotion and biting critique of the ways capitalism determines relational possibilities. RUMINATE EMERGENT offers the reader lines that stretch idioms of productivity and desire across the page like the dream of escape, and transforms into a complex meditation on attrition and the unbearable lightness of wonder. The collection soars syntactically offering relentless rhythms, across lines as long and devastating as any bread line."

Daniel Talamantes is a writer from the Central Valley of California, working currently as an environmental historian and environmental justice activist. Essays, short stories, and poems of his have been published with Entropy, Elderly, SF Chronicle, Soft Punk, to name a few.