Starlings

Author: Eliot Cardinaux

Publisher: The Bodily Press (2025)

Starlings, the sixth book of poems released by Eliot Cardinaux within the span of a year, follows what by now are two interwoven, ongoing cycles — serial poems begun, by turns, in The Ocean from Here to Here and Wandering Subject (2025). This book charts a course through murmurations of contemporary disaster along the threadbare edge of a history at once personal, political, and poetical. With Pierre Joris, Mireille Gansel, Matthew Shipp, and others as his guide, the poet skirts this edge as a witness to music both heard and unheard on the road-becoming-home to a poetry that is lived.