An innovative exploration of memory, language, and loss, blending a critical essay with prose poems that enact thinking, rupture, and astonishment.

Bewilder Meant is a hybrid work of critical-poetic essay and prose poetry that explores memory's instability, language's limits, and the persistence of desire. In conversation with Roland Barthes' Camera Lucida, the book asks whether language?unlike the photograph?can ever prove the existence of what it names. Where the photograph retains an indexical tie to the real, language gestures and constructs, failing to fully bind to meaning. At its core is the notion of the ?linguistic punctum??a wound where words falter and longing spills through. Refusing resolution, Bewilder Meant dwells in fracture, treating art as a site of astonishment where memory, loss, and desire remain unsettled but deeply felt.