COSMOGONIE INTIME Colophon detail

One can imagine a line which runs from Santa Cruz to Ashland by way of Mendocino not forgetting a leap though Paris. Friendship always perturbs geography. Imaginary realms: the sole truth in books.

Intimate Cosmogony: Law of Passage 3

If everything fades, everything blazes, uncertainty is my only posture, I glean what comes clear from the heart and what is unspoken, I kindle equally images and worlds, illusion and thundering truth.

Cosmogenie Intime Law of Passage 2

  I go towards things becoming, an octopus has been pulled from the sea and the fish persist intact within, the ammonite’s spiral denotes certainty of time, its trembling and ts peace…

COSMOGONIE INTIME: Page 1 detail

For the cadence, an oarsmen’s sky, I see waves of wind, a crystalline plain floats in the blue, it passes out of sight, the air becomes word and windmills turn endlessly, pleasure-tuned to my memory.  

CODEX ESPANGLIENSIS Guillermo Gómez-Peña

Guillermo Gómez-Peña was born in 1955 and raised in Mexico City. He came to the United States in 1978. In his work, which includes performance art, video, audio, installations, poetry, journalism, critical writings and cultural theory, he explores cross-cultural issues and North/South relations. His performances have been presented nationally at the Franklin Furnace and Next Exit, New York, and […]