A Body in a Room
“A body flooded in night light, a room whispering.
A body until it had no more thoughts, utterly a body.
A room very long and very deep. A body of soft striped light.”
Thomas Devaney
Thomas Devaney’s books include, Cold Fingers Light the Way (Black Square Editions, 2018), Runaway Goat Cart (Hanging Loose Press, 2015), the solo-opera Calamity Jane (Furniture Press Books, 2014), and The Picture that Remains with photographer Will Brown (The Print Center, 2014). His work has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and BOMB Magazine. Projects with the Institute of Contemporary Art, include, “Tales from the 215,” for Zoe Strauss’s “Philadelphia Freedom” and “The Empty House,” at the Edgar Allan Poe House for The Big Nothing.” He is a 2014 Pew Fellow and teaches at Haverford College.