Bearing and Scale

[...]the lines and poems in Voodoo Hypothesis seep Black life into the cracks of this structure not to cure it, but to crack its logics apart to make room here on Earth for transformed spaces without having to rocket our imperial desires off-planet for another spatial fix. [...]mapping the tense relationship between massive structures and intimate everydays, Vancouver writer Cecily Nicholson's third book, Wayside Sang, focuses on the car, working from production lines and traffic lanes as they connect to the uneven porosities of the borders in North America. Nicholson takes this spatial frame to work at the expanded scale of car culture, opening her book with an extended survey of a landscape composed of factory long arms, displaced workers, contaminated groundwater, and the commodity call of the open road.