Away from rising waters and into the stacks, Sound/Chest wades into forgotten technologies and sometimes dwelled-upon flashes of memory. The card catalog, once filled with the information necessary to understand the library's workings more directly, is now empty and waiting to be discarded like thoughts that only roll to the front of our minds when something ephemeral reminds us of them again, prolonging their existence. The bell of the filmstrip player, now itself a relic in our forward progress, rings and signals its operator to move the narrative forward, one frame at a time. The language of filmstrip projection, existing now only in the memories of those who sat through countless numbers of them in grade school, weaves its way throughout the book, infiltrating the conversational, though often "jittery," tone of the poems. Where these two ephemeral items, once hallmarks of our search for information, combine is in the mind. Free of these tangible data stores, one wanders through,...

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