Kikirikiki by Natalie Stamatopoulos

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In Kikirikiki, the poet’s memory is constructed as an allegorical cast of animals, celestial bodies, and elements, each of whom help delineate the past through a shared miasmal ancestry. Stamatopoulos employs the classical modes of strophe and antistrophe to create a familial dialectic between the chorus and the speaker towards a narrative of origin. The roads of lineage converge with land (Greece) and matriarch (Yiayia) so as to blend both as a single, unifying subject. “THUS, LUCKY & UNLUCKY FOR YOU,” The Wind tells us, “YOU ARE ALL ONE THING TOGETHER.” Stamatopoulos impels us to witness our rhizomatic connections in contrast to the imposed isolation of individualism, to see causation rather than estrangement, to know that the Rooster’s morning call is an intersection of nature and parable.