Karl Young: an opening from Cried and Measured (1975-1977)
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"Part of ‘Bringing the Text Back Home’ (1975-2011). Designed as a book,
the sequence of pages create rhythms not completely apparent here. Based in
fragmentary first examples of Judaic and Roman alphabets, Bringing the Text
Back Home explores rhythmic patterns from early literacy to new possibilities
in cyberspace. Perhaps the sonata they enter here in conjunction with other
work will suggest intersecting.
Since Cried and Measured was conceived as a Holocaust memorial, it seems instructive that the first scraps of personal writing we have include notes on a pogrom in an exile community. An essential component of the work is the recurrence of lists of names in the fragments, which can be identified here by the use of the patronymic ‘bar’ in passages on these pages. Contemporary readers could see these names as 2500 year old versions of minimalist poems written today. In a work conceived as a book, individual page openings act something like chapters. The complete work, with notes, and extensions can be found at http://www.thing.net/~grist/ld/TextBackHome/Volume5.htm."
/Karl Young/
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K. S. Ernst: Calling Fire (2006)
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reposted
from ksernst.com
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Sheila Murphy: untitled (2013)
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| reposted from Facebook |
Seekers of Lice: from Encyclops (2013)
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| Encyclops is coming out soon in book form. |
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