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TO TRACE A CRICLE IN THE INTERIOR OF WHICH WOULD COME TO BE INSCRIBED THE OUTSIDE OF EVERY CIRCLE

Author(s)

Peter Giebel

From the submission: "It is in two parts, this book. The first is literally a rewriting of Emerson’s essay “History.” It stands juxtaposed with panels taken from a text for teaching conversational English—examining any variety of everyday circumstances. The second borrows images from a visual encyclopedia—while gleaning language of ideology (demarcated by complete capitalization) from Gerald Turner’s translation of Patrik Ouředník’s Europeana: A brief history of the twentieth century—, and uses those forms to articulate the poem as diagrammatic, as it continues its desire for object." Aside: the size of these editions severely limits the scale at which the images and text may interact with one another. In the second part of the text, "The Continent That Thought of Valley," this means that the majority of the language is rendered relatively illegible. As such, what we then have is a series of diagrams with the occasional bit of curious language--rendering the objectness and narrative of image much more resolute. It is something that I can still be satisfied by, despite the disqualification of much of the text; whether that is the case for you all remains to be seen. Few things please me more than thinking someone would have to take a magnifying glass to a book to try grasp at all the horrid, precious details.

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• Length: 91
• Categories: US