Guernica Editions

Michael Mirolla looks into his art as into a language prism: light glances off many sides of the "object" at once, and time, particularly time, is what attempts to hold it still. They seem to work as artistic principles, informing and revelatory: the condition and product of the work itself. But as time lets go, the poem is left not just as a brilliantly lightrefracted piece; it is also, in Stevens' parlance, that always perennially interesting "world [that] lives as you live / Speaks as you speak," the demystified thing as it is. We are not left with just a lovely inscrutable artifact but an image, as Bachelard says, that "opens a future to language".