Poetry / Flash
Date Published: 11-10-2026
Publisher: Shanti Arts
The poems and prose of Hunting the Cosmos engage with and interrogate
the art of midcentury Spanish-Mexican surreal artist Remedios Varo, expanding
the absurd dreamwork, surprising realities, and meanings of paintings and
text. The occult, technology, fairy tales, and religion all play roles.
Transformation through alchemy, magic, and science is a significant theme, as
well as the metamorphosis of art and experience into new art. Award-winning
poet Luanne Castle brings Varo’s sensibilities to life on the page in
this beautiful ekphrastic collection of prose poems, lyric poems, and
microfiction.
the art of midcentury Spanish-Mexican surreal artist Remedios Varo, expanding
the absurd dreamwork, surprising realities, and meanings of paintings and
text. The occult, technology, fairy tales, and religion all play roles.
Transformation through alchemy, magic, and science is a significant theme, as
well as the metamorphosis of art and experience into new art. Award-winning
poet Luanne Castle brings Varo’s sensibilities to life on the page in
this beautiful ekphrastic collection of prose poems, lyric poems, and
microfiction.
About the Author
 Hunting the Cosmos is Luanne Castle’s sixth book. She has published four
award-winning poetry collections and Scrap: Salvaging a Family, a memoir in
flash. Her poetry and prose have appeared in Copper Nickel, River Teeth, Your
Impossible Voice, JMWW, Grist, Fourteen Hills, Verse Daily, One Art, Lunch
Ticket, Saranac Review, Pleiades, The Ekphrastic Review, The Mackinaw,
Thimble, Flash Boulevard, Cleaver, Moon City, Moon Park, Anti-Heroin Chic,
Bending Genres, BULL, and more. Her mixed media collages have been published
in many journals.
Contact Links
Purchase Link
