I have a little tradition of making sure that the last work in any issue of NDQ gets a little extra attention here on the website.

For NDQ 90.3/4, it’s Nathan Whiting’s poem “To Scale.” Its unconventional formatting shakes up what it means to read a text and to experience a place. As someone with more than a passing interest in the material world and landscapes, his “polylocal” compositional style is both evocative of a landscape and compelling as a text.

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Nathan Whiting has performed contemporary dance in New York and Bhutto in Japan, run races longer than 100 miles and meditates on the city as nature. Before he invented this new Polylocal way of writing, he published 9 books of poetry and appeared in American Poetry Review, Antioch Review, Best American Poetry, Denver Quarterly and other journals.

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