Edwin Torres

Please Edwin Torres

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. CD ROM format. Text, audio poems, soundscapes, & video from Edwin Torres. I was in a room./The left wall was my friend./I turned. With these lines, we enter PLEASE -- a CD that uses the screen as metaphor for room and house to navigate sublime stagecraft and lyrical realization. Bob Holman has praised Torres' use of text, graphics and poesie concrete...the equivalent of Torres' fully-orchestrated live performances. In PLEASE Torres' design background informs the minimal visual architecture, combining paranoia with nomadic wonder outside the 'walls.' Brenda Coultas observes, The nomad is a constant in Torres' work, an alter ego. PLEASE brims over with such alterity, a nomad trapped by desire, an analogy to walking through the poet's mind, wandering in and out of rooms representing phases of time & space: City/Morning/Night, Boy/Nature, Media/Remote, Time/Galaxy, and Love.