Territories of Folding by T.C. Tolbert


Territories of Folding
Title : Territories of Folding
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ISBN : -
Language : English
Format Type : double-bind chapbook
Number of Pages : 32
Publication : First published March 1, 2011

TC Tolbert's debut book of poetry uncovers the landscape of life ever in motion. In language flickering with love, loss, and liminality, and with adamantine accuracy, this work bridges many seemingly distant land masses: female and male, girl and boy, music and silence, body and space. Territories embodies the poet's transition “from woman to something less visibly female” and reveals the cyclic journeys of construction, deconstruction, and reconstruction of the person contextualized by an outward societal framework. “Having lived through the funnel both ways,” TC Tolbert acknowledges and bravely challenges traditional schemes of hegemony with a conscious commitment to the unique multiplicity of the self, who is at once (and always) transitory and timeless.

Territories of Folding Reviews

  • Joe

    Just unpacked TC Tolbert’s territories of folding (2011) from its envelope. Beautifully made book, with 2, 2! Spiral bindings on either side, folding out in either direction. WIDE book, maybe 12” Wide 7” High?

    Although I am ungentle and in between,
    dear Ramona. Call me domicile.
    Tar string and say that never will you
    Garnish me. Choke lovey the open
    Trickle of my mouth (9)

    Gently bleeding poems.

    The book unfolds to form various triptychs. Two then three pages present themselves to view.

    tonight, let’s practice erosion.
    it’s finally my turn as the win (31)


    Somewhere between a love poem and an elegy.

    both tired of the obvious and
    invigorate arrive in us holyfield arrive
    a girder we fashion from our teeth (8)


    I believe too much in repetition (5)

  • TC

    Well, it's my book so, I kind of like it. :)