{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"The Global Centre for Advanced Studies","provider_url":"https:\/\/gcas.ie\/es","author_name":"Creston Davis","author_url":"https:\/\/gcas.ie\/es\/author\/crestondaviscc1a46ceec\/","title":"Epigraph Becomes Epitaph","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"ySHYLNjzBQ\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gcas.ie\/es\/2025\/06\/12\/2025-5-12-epigraph-becomes-epitaph\/\">Epigraph Becomes Epitaph<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/gcas.ie\/es\/2025\/06\/12\/2025-5-12-epigraph-becomes-epitaph\/embed\/#?secret=ySHYLNjzBQ\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"\u00abEpigraph Becomes Epitaph\u00bb \u2014 The Global Centre for Advanced Studies\" data-secret=\"ySHYLNjzBQ\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! This file is auto-generated *\/\n!function(d,l){\"use strict\";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&\"undefined\"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!\/[^a-zA-Z0-9]\/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),c=new RegExp(\"^https?:$\",\"i\"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display=\"none\";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute(\"style\"),\"height\"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):\"link\"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute(\"src\")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener(\"message\",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll(\"iframe.wp-embedded-content\"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute(\"data-secret\"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+=\"#?secret=\"+t,e.setAttribute(\"data-secret\",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:\"ready\",secret:t},\"*\")},!1)))}(window,document);\n\/\/# sourceURL=https:\/\/gcas.ie\/wp-includes\/js\/wp-embed.min.js\n<\/script>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gcas.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/EpigraphBecomes_Symbol.webp?fit=2000%2C1125&ssl=1","thumbnail_width":2000,"thumbnail_height":1125,"description":"In Epigraph Becomes Epitaph, GCAS\u2019s Ph.D. researcher, Jacob Martino traces the symbolic arc of human consciousness, which is etched into verse\u2014where beginning and end collapse into a single ontological gesture. Drawing from psychoanalysis, Buddhist philosophy, and existential critique, the poem journeys through the dialectic of desire and death, tracing Thanatos and Eros not as opposites but as co-constructors of subjectivity.What begins as inscription becomes extinction\u2014not through erasure, but transformation. Here, resolution is revealed not as closure, but as a residue of what is hidden, displaced, or deferred. The poem meditates on the epistemic limits of the cogito, the recursive grip of trauma, and the compulsion to repeat in the absence of final meaning.It is a text that folds time into tension, language into loss, and selfhood into symbol. A philosophical elegy, an aesthetic koan\u2014Epigraph Becomes Epitaph is less about what is written, and more about what writing tries\u2014and inevitably fails\u2014to contain."}