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Matrix Lux

出版	Belladonna Books, 2023-10
主題	Biography & Autobiography / Personal MemoirsPoetry / General
ISBN	09988439629780998843964
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=esHMzwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Matrix Lux, Lila Zemborain's latest project, reflects her journey through chemotherapy in terms of body, spirituality, light, motherhood, and womanhood. Throughout the collection, she repeats the healing mantra Ra Ma Da Sa. The mantra focuses on sound and light vibrations and structures the book: the poems appear to hang from the eight syllables of the mantra which in turn function as a frontispiece for each page. Each piece is displayed as a movement between interiority and exteriority and varies in length and subject matter, ranging from physical sensations, daily observations, meditations on light and the color white, on the consistency of health and illness, to the nature of the mind and the uncertainties of faith. In all, the book, grounded in Thomas Merton's reflection, "Faith is ? an intellectual assent", displays the contradictions inherent to experiencing a deadly illness, alternating between doubt and faith in not only medicine but also the healing powers of the body, the mind and of human contact.Accompanying Zemborain's poems are her son's Lorenzo Bueno's translations into English. Lorenzo Bueno is an MFA candidate at Bard College. He has performed at MoMa, The Brooklyn Museum, The Stadelschule and at beach in Long Island, where he directed his adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull. In a book exploring the literal and symbolic meaning of the word "matrix" derived from "mater", mother, which in Spanish signifies "womb", matriz, the collaboration between mother and son becomes crucial to the project.