Intentional Room
Intentional
Room
is a lyrical journey into the interior. The shape of language becomes an
architecture of detailed description to claim place in the moving reality. It
is an indirect love story. A restless meditation. Beyond the mere telling of
plot, Esther Mathieu reaches into layers and nuances of her surroundings. There
is creative authority in this round-about love story. From “a calendar whose
upper pages grow roses” to “what love but love of green for water,” Mathieu
sings a song in a different frequency. The definition of love, the definition
of language, are a conjecture of the poet. Intentional Room is a litany in
which Mathieu allows change into her scripted place. The story takes place
inside a mind, inside a memory, and inside a defined space. It is a
contemplation of order making landscape serve as a revelation of the interior
where description is “itself an entire action.” “I am certain / of labyrinth, I
am certain of suspension— ”
Diane Glancy, author of Quadrille and Piece