Field Recordings

HOW SOON IS NOW? Heather O'Neill's Memory Future examines memory and love Heather Aimee O'Neill's Memory Future , winner of the 2010 Gold Line Press chapbook award, breaks  upon the ear like a Sunday morning LP, and like a great record, the tones play upon each other and echo, and redouble, and enlarge, the needle skipping slightly between tracks, the rain coming down with steady even beats. Broken into three sections, the titles of which come from English poet and writer Jeanette Winterson's Gut Symmetries, which both serve as an epigram to the entire work and introduce the metaphysical spines running through individual poems in this book. Winterson asks “What is salted up in the memory of you?...We think of our lives as linear but it is the spin of earth that allows us to observe time. ” O'Neill's speakers deal with a reality that begins in memory and works forward. And O'Neill's speakers often respond from the outskirts of love, de...