Hiccups

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Taking cues from a myriad of short forms-haiku epigram bon mot aphorism senry?-the poems in Joe Pan's </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Hiccups </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>search out unexpected ways to document events in transition. Here the imminent moment deeply regarded is agitated into performance or merely left to drift generating through language a curious experience of its own making. The disparate settings of these poems are as diverse as the impulses that gave rise to the work-a Tokyo skyscraper a South African wildlife preserve a log cabin in the Pacific Northwest a shark-infested reef off Belize. These are poems that arrive with a jolt engulfing the familiar before being left to linger or dissolve.</span></p>