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BLESSED NOWHERE

BEWILDERNESS

https://medium.com/anomalyblog/on-bewilderness-by-catherine-black-ead48e900f12

A HARD GOLD THREAD (VIDEO ESSAY)

https://www.triquarterly.org/issues/issue-163/introduction-video-essays

In “A Hard Gold Thread” Catherine Black uses the Abcedarian to remind us that the alphabet still feels like a logic even if seen in fragments. Throughout the video a low voice whispers: “I don’t wanna talk about it don’t talk about it I don’t wanna think about itIdon’twannatalkaboutit” as flash cards, each with a letter and a corresponding image, appear like brief lighthouse beams. Above the sibilant whisper a louder vocal track describes a house precisely, as through early memories: “In the dark house the park light [B Bird] comes through the many small windows in precise beams and heats stripes of carpet” [N Nest]. The flashing of the images between moments of black space create a kind of anticipation we feel as we watch, like breath, “Here, then gone,” a recitation the body knows. Near the end of the video, the voice on the main track says “He’s home from school eating puffed wheat cereal, then candy. Don’t talk about it,” calling out to the whispers below it, drawing our attention, finally to the loud absence that’s been there all along.

INTERVIEWS

All About Canadian Books (on Blessed Nowhere): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeSIbaKumUA

All About Canadian Books (meet the author): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T484TpcHU4

Culture Talk & Tours: https://youtu.be/6DjyoB2NZ3Q?si=RoMY200QRlrZ7IDI

Shane Hewitt & The Nightshift (writing for mental health): https://shanehewitt.ca/new-writing-for-mental-health-the-companion-nobody-talks-about/

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