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Twelve Rooms (Instructor Edition): A System of Containment
Paperback
Series: Twelve
Publisher Price: $14.95
ISBN13: 9781972788202
Publisher: Pressure System Press
Published: May 8 2026
Pages: 48
Weight: 0.15
Height: 0.12 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Twelve Rooms: A System of Containment is a collection of short, structured poems that examine how systems transform through pressure, division, disturbance, accumulation, removal, and return.
Organized into twelve interconnected rooms, the book presents observable processes-glacial movement, optical inversion, fossilization, atmospheric filtering, collapse, saturation, erosion, and decay-through minimalist compositions built on containment and transformation. Each poem follows a triadic structure in which a condition encounters a boundary and emerges altered.
Accompanying system notes expand each poem through perceptual, material, and structural analysis, connecting the poems to broader patterns of observation, instability, change, and relation. Together, the poems and commentary form a framework for examining how systems operate across physical, perceptual, and conceptual domains.
Written within a method of Absolute Composition, the work emphasizes structure, relation, and process over symbolic interpretation. Language is reduced to essential states and transitions so that meaning emerges through interaction rather than explanation.
Blending poetry, philosophy, systems thinking, and conceptual design, Twelve Rooms presents poetry as a living structure of transformations. Both meditative and analytical, the book invites readers to observe how boundaries shape what enters, how systems respond under pressure, and how change leaves lasting trace.
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