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Experimental visual and prose poems that reimagine Greco-Roman mythology through a feminist lens.
The poems in Whispering Gallery explore the tensions between analog and digital poetics, language, and materiality. Each poem, first typed on a typewriter and then digitally manipulated, is named for a female or feminine figure (wives, daughters, monsters, mothers, muses) stalled, subdued, or caught in moments of suspension rather than heroic resolution. Paired prose poems translate these mythic figures into contemporary, intimate registers, tracing the quiet violences, care, and survival that shape lived experience.
Drawing on personal and domestic ephemera (thread, spice, old print artifacts), the collection explores repetition, distortion, and persistence as formal and thematic tools. Equal parts intimate diary, scholarly engagement, and playful experimentation, Whispering Gallery offers myth as a site of shared vulnerability, radical care, and connection.
Praise for Dani Spinosa's previous work
This book is a real gift to vispo, its fans and present and future practitioners.”—Helen Hajnoczky
“The fifty typewriter poems in this volume are both thought provoking and beautifully crafted.”—Geist
“Not only an excellent, well-researched overview of the history and tradition of typewritten visual poetry, but also—what a sly female response to it!”—Petra Schulze-Wollgast
Dani Spinosa is a poet, scholar, educator, writer, and a computer programmer. She is an adjunct professor, a software developer, a digital and creative project manager, a co-founding editor of Gap Riot Press, president of Canthius, the managing editor of the Electronic Literature Directory, and the author of two books: OO: Typewriter Poems (Invisible Publishing, 2020) and Anarchists in the Academy (U of Alberta Press, 2018). She lives in beautiful Wasaga Beach, Ontario.