TITULADA

elena minor has described her work as "words of exploration" that "well up on their own terms — who can know what those truly are." Which brings to mind that perhaps loaded term, "indeterminacy"—meaning not only what Marjorie Perloff has in mind in her groundbreaking volume from the early 80s arguing against what she deemed a tired way of looking at the poetics of the day, but also John Cage, when he states that a piece of music can be "performed in substantially different ways." In elena minor's case, you'll find a plethora of ways she deploys her poems, not only linguistically (English and Spanish are on equal footing here), but also the various topographies she has at her disposal when arraying her words (and numbers!) on the page. TITULADA, then, is deliciously indeterminate in the best sense of the word. This is her artistic lineage.   elena minor's work is provoked by a basic curiosity about the mystery, paradox and possibilities of spaces, symbols and juxtapositions in language. Her work has appeared in more than two dozen print and online journals, including RHINO, Mandorla, Hot Metal Bridge, OCHO, 26, Puerto del Sol, Diner, Poetry Midwest, Quercus Review, and Segue. She is a recipient of the Chicano/Latino Literary Prize and is founding editor of PALABRA A Magazine of Chicano & Latino Literary Art.   "elena minor remembers the city as its traffic breaks making gaps for words to stretch [collude] pop. Flows out of its limits into a great expanse, where contrasts bulwarking thought threaten to slide away. Her poems warm, uncoil, slither across the page; only to cycle back cold as a desert night. Corrientes de sangre, sendero seco. What's left? Some rattling west. And this body wanting to confide in you: 'bone breathe down.'" - Krystin Dykstra