From Ancient Greek, thixis ‘touch & tropos ‘of turning.’
When disturbed, when shaken, when stirred, a thixotropic liquid flows more freely. You could say it opens.
(After the force is removed, the liquid will return in time to its previous state.)
Thixotropic Press publishes chapbooks of single long poems, interdependent sequences & poetic essays that engage this physical-energetic-molecular property.
Our first two chapbooks, The Particles, and 7 Cervicals / Riga Pine have been published. Other titles are forthcoming.
C Pirloul & Mary Cisper,
founding editors
The Particles, by Mary Cisper
The Particles, by Mary Cisper.
(Cover design by C Pirloul.)
Time in fragments in California’s Sierra Nevada.
David Mutschlecner: “Like a good scientist, Cisper does not look for artificially terminal dogmas, but openings in understanding. She emotionally engages matters of mind and earth, and then marries them”…
PURCHASE: THE PARTICLES
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7 Cervicals / Riga Pine, by C Pirloul (covers by C Pirloul.)
A spine of sestinas with a global cast of characters. A conversation with a riga pine off the Talinn Highway near Skultes Muiza in Latvija. C Pirloul’s doubleheader chapbook, 7 Cervicals / Riga Pine, makes its debut.
“To rotate the Atlas thereby turning our face in time…”
PURCHASE: 7 CERVICALS/RIGA PINE or PURCHASE: 7 CERVICALS/RIGA PINE & THE PARTICLES
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