I came to Emmalea Russo’s work not through the usual literary channels, but through hearing her hold forth on poetry as “thing” on the eclectic arts podcast, Contain. Russo’s Confetti leans into its own thing-ness, a resistance to the quick delivery of meaning (to paraphrase Byung-Chul Han). In Confetti, cinema, geometry, philosophy, and literature mel(t)(d) like plastics, to bombastically disorienting effect. Yet there is also restraint and border, line and ligament.
In the following interview, Russo responds to a few of my curiosities about Confetti as well as her overarching artistic vision and process.
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