ÔA self-portrait painted by others.Õ
If a ÔchasmÕ represents a deep fissure in which one could fall, and a Ôchiastic structureÕ illustrates change that occurs between the same start and end point, then Chiasm is marriage of the two ideas: rabbit hole and labyrinth, the plunge from which one emerges in the same exact place, noticeably different.
In his debut poetry collection, Marcello Vial tracks the development of a poetic voice from infancy towards maturity in the only way one canÐ through mirrors and spirals and birds and bees.