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Twelve Rooms (Standard Edition): A System of Containment
Paperback
Series: Twelve
ISBN13: 9781972788196
Publisher: Pressure System Press
Published: May 7 2026
Pages: 34
Weight: 0.11
Height: 0.08 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Twelve Rooms: A System of Containment is a collection of short, structured poems that examine transformation through pressure, division, disturbance, accumulation, removal, and return.
Organized into twelve rooms, each poem presents a contained sequence in which a condition encounters a boundary and emerges altered. Glaciers, photons, fossils, flood lamps, nebulae, plants, weather, and decay appear not as symbols, but as observable processes unfolding through structure and relation.
Written within a method of Absolute Composition, the poems reduce language to essential states and transitions. Meaning emerges through movement, containment, and change rather than explanation or narrative interpretation.
Blending poetry, systems thinking, philosophy, and conceptual design, Twelve Rooms invites readers to observe how transformation occurs over time: how pressure leaves trace, how entry produces disturbance, and how structure persists through change.
Minimal, meditative, and experimental, the book presents poetry as a living system of relations rather than a vehicle for metaphor alone.
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