One of three pamphlets in Thirty West's inaugural Pamphlet Series.
conjure is both mange and manger, a testament of poetry as bile secreted from our inner demons and as bible, as definition, behind our perverted allegiance and disillusion to and with the past. Schwarz pleads, begs with dysfunction, asks “...why did I sleep/in a guest bedroom every other weekend?”; unfurls and unleashes harbored viscera in his “need to write beneath grammar...”. The body is a character of loss and reflection; a fragmented stain on bathroom tiles twitching in unresolved conflict. Schwarz reminds us of the precision behind language; the guttural noises we use to define our own bones and narratives. In conjure, Schwarz manipulates this tool, cracks it against a mirror and calls upon the splinters to raise forth spirits of our shared ancestral monomyth that demand to “let me see lineage, let me feel birth…”
—TE Tomaino, poet
