Poetry by emilio Taiveaho Peláez

Published by betweenthehighway

2.25” x 91”

Thermal printing on receipt paper

Edition of 300

2024

Peláez writes how they climb, with the patience of mountains and glaciers, the swiftness of birds and streams.  Originally written during 2023 and printed at their home in Haw River, North Carolina, the long poem introduces itself:

     Dogen sang Sansuikyo
      as if speaking with
      the North Cascades

      the birth of
      place, these words

      poems fruiting
      with humility & gratitude
      for the wild places
      that remain

emilio Taiveaho Peláez is an investigative poet based in the Piedmont region of North Carolina. Their word-work emerges from flesh-eye experiences within the living archives of American landscapes and seeks to grapple with the colonial languaging practices that shape these environments — from sidewalks to national parks to the common places of lyric poetry.