Tag: 2019
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couplets and questions
Review by Eric Morris-Pusey couplets and questionsAndrew ShawThe Silent Academy couplets20195 × 5 in. closed78 pagesSoft-cover perfect bindingHP Indigo questions5 × 5 in. closed202058 pagesSoft-cover perfect bindingHP Indigo “Imagination,” author John Higgs begins his foreword to Andrew Shaw’s couplets, “isn’t what it used to be.” The statement was true enough when he first put it…
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Students
Tia Blassingame’s history of an integrated school offers a corrective to the way historical narratives about anti-Black violence are often presented.
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False Fiction Fractured Fact Altered
False Fiction Fractured Fact Altered is a wonderful democratic access point to Marilyn R. Rosenberg’s asemic writing and collage practice.
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ISOLATIONS
ISOLATIONS is a process-oriented publication that reveals the labor of poetics and the poetics of labor.
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Attenti al Cane: Twentysix Dogs Found on Street View
“Attenti al Cane” thoughtfully appropriates imagery from Google Street View to examine how the internet mediates a long-distance relationship.
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Five Oceans in a Teaspoon
Five Oceans in a TeaspoonDennis J. Bernstein and Warren Lehrer2019 Paper Crown Press6.875 × 6.5 × 1 in.300 pagesSmyth-sewn hardcoverOffset inside with foil-stamped cloth spine and paper cover The 1984 book French Fries by Dennis Bernstein and Warren Lehrer is a landmark work of visual literature. In the years since, Bernstein’s poetry has continued to…
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Understanding Molecular Typography
Understanding Molecular TypographyWoody LeslieH.F. Henderson2019Ugly Duckling Presseuglyducklingpresse.org 5 × 7 in.128 pagesBinding: Smyth-sewnOffset inside with foil-stamped wrap Editor’s note: this review contains spoilers. I struggled over how to review this book, and made the determination to identify it as a work of fiction (satire, specifically) and review it as such. I hesitate to out the…
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Plant Out of Place
Plant Out of PlaceSarah Nicholls2019Brain Washing From Phone Towers brainwashingfromphonetowers.com 4.75 × 8.75 in.12 pagesBinding: French fold accordion, stitched into a coverLetterpress and linocutEdition of 250 Despite its unusual format, Sarah Nicholls is emphatic that her work Plant Out of Place is a pamphlet. In fact, Plant Out of Place is one of a three-part…
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the THERE, THERE quarterly (Volume One, Issue One)
the THERE, THERE quarterly, Volume One, Issue OneTravis ShafferFeaturing Zora J. Murff, Cian Oba-Smith, and Terrance Purdy2019theretherenow.www.theretherenow.com 10 × 12.5 in.18 sheetsUnbound, gathered in a belly bandRisograph the THERE, THERE quarterly is a new photo publication from Travis Shaffer’s imprint, theretherenow. Volume One, Issue One establishes the format: work by three photographers is Risograph printed…
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Notes from Byzantium
Notes from ByzantiumShelly Taylor and Eben Goff, ed. AB Gorham2019Black Rock Presswww.unr.edu/art/black-rock-press 7 × 9 × .25 in.60 pagesBinding: Softcover codex with sewn signaturesFoil cover and HP Indigo inside The combination of poetry by Shelly Taylor and art by Eben Goff is not an obvious choice, but then, the best books are often surprising. Both…
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