​​Evolving from a doctoral dissertation into an ambitious, highly experimental hybrid work, Spolia explores trauma, memory, and spatial displacement across a complex, multi-tiered architecture. The manuscript opens in Part 1 with a grounded, non-linear autofiction documenting a voyage through contemporary Turkey, before shifting into Part 2’s speculative, interventionalist landscape—where the narrative's central motifs undergo surreal transformations through talking, broken sculptures and the hauntological afterlives of the Ephesian brothels. Part 3 gathers these conceptual threads into a series of paratactic, darkly humorous islands composed of myth, instructional how-tos, and linguistic artifacts inspired by the 14th-century Codex Cumanicus. To complement this textual matrix, the book integrates a custom deck of literary cards featuring original hand-painted images; moving beyond traditional tarot, these multimodal cards align characters, scientific equations, psychosocial theories, and philosophical frameworks into an interactive storytelling engine that readers can actively deploy alongside the prose.
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From the award-winning author of The Arc and the Sediment (Utah State University Press 2007).
