Fomenting insurrections from the everyday turns of post-structuralist language, solidad decosta’s The Litmus of Desire subtly sculpts rhetorical shadings and expands them streetside with magnanimous longing and heartfelt wit. Combining mordant irony with a passionate commitment to justice, The Litmus of Desire invokes the ghosts of Williams and O’Hara while dancing freely with the contemporary illuminations of Juliana Spahr and Harryette Mullen. Dragging the poetic upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s into the lightning-paced present of the Now, The Litmus of Desire is a playful and engaging work from a brilliant emerging artist.
