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The first full-length title from Community Mausoleum, Maxwell Gontarek’s Study for Swimming Hole investigates accidents and possibilities in distortion, fragmentation, intra/interlingual slippage, and control. Gontarek’s poetic ghosting winkingly detunes and noddingly remixes across all the old dimensions of artmaking, whispering with tradition while reveling in the extreme detail and thrilling difficulty of meaning and being made to mean in the present.
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Maxwell Gontarek is the author of the chapbook H Is the Letter of the Door (above/ground press, 2025) and has writing out in mercury firs, Annulet, Works & Days, and elsewhere. With Léa Fougerolle, he runs the translation project verseant and lives between Philadelphia and France. Study for Swimming Hole is his first full-length collection.