From Ancient Greek, thixis ‘touch & tropos ‘of turning.’
When disturbed, when shaken, when stirred, a thixotropic liquid flows more freely.
You could say it opens.
Thixotropic Press publishes chapbooks of single long poems, interdependent sequences & poetic essays that engage this physical-energetic-molecular property.
Our first four chapbooks,
The Particles,
7 Cervicals / Riga Pine,
Slow Closing of the Opening Chapter, and
Track to the Lotus
have been published. Other titles are forthcoming.
C Pirloul-Broshi & Mary Cisper,
founding editors
The Particles, by Mary Cisper
https://thixotropicpress.org
“wonder if these Bristlecones ask
(what is memory)
“delegates hugging one another, with some in tears”
“In her brilliant new long poem, Mary Cisper. . .shows a fractal patterning between observer and observed.” - David Mutschlecner
7 Cervicals / Riga Pine, by C Pirloul-Broshi
C Pirloul-Broshi’s doubleheader chapbook, 7 Cervicals / Riga Pine
“To rotate the Atlas thereby turning our face in time…”
A spine of sestinas with a global cast of characters. A conversation with a Riga Pine off the Talinn Highway near Skultes Muiza in
Latvija.
PURCHASE 7 CERVICALS/RIGA PINE: https://thixotropicpress.org
Slow Closing of the Opening Chapter, by David Mutschlecner. “Dark dipping tone tipped
with choral light that curls quick…”
Author of six previous books of poetry, Mutschlecner “seeks a mythic kindling whose flame rises by virtue of a theo-poetic breath.”
PURCHASE Slow Closing of the Opening Chapter: https://thixotropicpress.org
“ . . such bright light in the passageway so much plastic in the world now
it could be day time even in the stomachs of whales
you could levitate on the flying carpet in the ears of the imaginary rabbit . . .”
PURCHASE Charlie Kalogeros-Chattan’s debut chapbook, Track to the Lotus: https://thixotropicpress.org