Body of Text
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Body of Text is a collection of concrete poems made by marrying poetry with body-based performance art and documentary photography. Dressed in a full black body-suit, Michael V. Smith is photographed by David Ellingsen in hundreds of poses which resemble Greco-Roman letters, Asian characters, hieroglyphs, or Rorschach inkblots. These are then arranged in book form, to a maximum of three images per page. In the same spirit of ?moving beyond language' as heard in the sound poetry of Christian B?k, the poems in Body of Text occupy a liminal space between poetry and visual art. The body is made word, is made ?site, ' ?object' and ?subject.' The body is symbol
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1897388284
ISBN13:9781897388280
Release Date:August 2010
Publisher:Book*hug Press
Length:192 Pages
Weight:0.45 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 4.5" x 6.8"
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