I chose the work of Dixie Denman Junius for the debut collection in the Anhinga Visual Poetry Series because I find her vibrant script work and glitches as she says, “at once radically meditative and vibrantly energetic” sprouting into a new frontier of visual poetry, asemics, and glitch. The works’ foundation is the artist’s calligraphy of the Enso symbol, a Japanese word-thought with spiritual roots. Circling the Start thrusts a movement that springs from calligraphy and script. The book moves both front to back and back to front — the development does not have to be linear or first page to last. This is the Circling.

— Kristine Snodgrass, Curator