Eight Track

Poet and intermedia artist Oana Avasilichioaei'sEight Trackis a transliterary exploration of traces. Sound recordings, surveillance cameras, desert geoglyphs, drone operators, refugee interviews, animal imprints, and audio signals manifest moments of inspired wonder, systems of power, slippages, debris. In "the great era of seeing" when the boundary between tracking agent and monitored subject is worn thin by politics and commerce,Eight Trackassembles a set of discordant melodies, polyphonic voices, transcriptions, theatres, and images in a struggle to hold on to agency and awe. Stirring from languages of oppression to languages of resistance,Eight Trackecholocates the nameless, the noisy, the scattered, and the voiceless. This is ultimately a book of relationsof each of us to each other, to other life forms, to environments, to cultures, to the obsolete and the absolute, to the animal vitality we share. (From Talonbooks)

Eight Trackisa finalistfor the 2020 Governor General's Literary Prize for poetry.

Oaana Avasilishoioaeiis a writer, artist and translator from Montreal. She has written several poetry collections, includingWe, Beasts,LimbinalandOperator.Shewon the 2017 Governor General's Literary Award for translationfor the bookReadopolis,originally written in French by Bertrand Laverdure.

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