Inside this Split of Wind

Author: Jeanne Stauffer-Merle

Artist: Jessica Seamans

Publisher: Plumberries (2014)

Inside this Split of Wind was a long time coming, shimmering on the waves, always approaching and moving further and further away. This book is the meeting of the mythic and painfully modern myopia, a mirror-dance of inside and out, of expanses collapsing into claustrophobic noise. Merle uses the page to weave and splash a looping clap against the boat, against the brain and the balance. How can you see it in the distance my friend, when you are up so close?