Series/Mnemonic
by Trane DeVore

"...DeVore's efforts have culminated in Series/Mnemonic, a concise volume of 51 experimental poems exploring the function of memory and its relationship to the minutia of daily experience. The book was published earlier this month by Penngrove-based Avec Books and marks the 28 year-old DeVore's literary debut. "The prevailing theme of Series/Mnemonic is memory
and the way in which the texture of memory informs us and who we are. It was not an actual memory I wanted to describe but rather the feeling of memory," explains DeVore, whose work has been published in numerous literary  journals. "Feelings of memories aren't often due toparticular memories but accretions of similar experiences that build up. The very important things in our day to day experiences are often thethings we don't think about,those things that might not enter into our minds as particularly important to our histories."
   DeVore believes that memories often bring with them associations that shape perception and color our experience. "I wanted to describe and
reproduce that phenomenon language," says DeVore. "To do this I couldn't describe actual memories. Instead I had to create traces of feelings or produce
combinations of words that would cause the reader's minds to experience those words as a kind of texture rather than a narrative..."

From the Sonoma County Independent:

"This slender volume of quietly precise poetry...should be savored...DeVore puts together words in a way that is economical but never stingy. Even his shortest poems have evocative power."

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