Atomineral Explorations

ATOMINERAL EXPLORATIONS is an abecedarian assemblage with text drawn from published writings by several authors along with Stewart's own notebooks. The poem finds a mood and a language amidst an abandoned mine, a flooded creek, a patch of second-growth forest-industrial wounds in the process of being reclaimed by the land.




"In Atomineral Explorations, Jeremy Stewart paces Robert Smithson's non-site, impatiently hoping for language to admit its limits. Stewart slides cagily between social textures, halting delivery of transparent representation to its extraction point. He takes careful note of the asymptotic desire to make the real creek creeky, to metaphorically and materially clear-cut old growth, and to uncrumple and enclose even the most inaccessible folds. Stewart's poetic attentiveness is one that guts itself, rather than cast the reel." - Ryan Fitzpatrick