As I was doing the readings for class – especially the excerpt from The Nature of the Book – I started thinking about one of my favorite novels. (I’m a fiction MFA, so that’s really just typical. Literally everything reminds me of … Continue reading
My first thought when this signment was signed in class was: do something with highlighters. I don’t have highlighters anymore, so that idea didn’t get expanded on. But I did do something that involved literalness. I did get to use … Continue reading
For this week’s signment I decided to pick materials that would make writing difficult, in addition to emphasizing their materiality. I was thinking about how often writing utensils fail me ( I usually use cheap, found pens and pencils) and … Continue reading
So I’ve been reading Ana Božičević religiously (which coincidentally means choosing poems randomly from her BOOK! over and over), and trying to do the thing that she does with her language. The poems I linked to come from EOAGH’s Queering … Continue reading
Besides a recent bother I had knocking around about whether binary code is rhetorical or not, I’ve also been thinking about divination, natural religion, and how to read the world. Or, thought another way: how the world communicates (in a … Continue reading
Undertaking this signment, I wanted to think about what surface or material would define my act of writing, both in terms of what I wrote and how. I ended up enacting and then writing this recipe. Recipe for One (1) … Continue reading
I made you guys a map: But to read it, you’ll have to look at this link: http://postimg.org/image/y4qdqt4ol/full/ because, for reasons I don’t fully understand, I made the writing so small you could see it, but not understand it unless … Continue reading
My original plan was to construct an encaustic collage commenting on wax tablets, ear candling, beeswax, etc. As I began to to prepare my wax-and-damar medium, I realized my canvases had gone missing — I had no solid surface. As … Continue reading
In her introduction to the facsimile edition of Emily Dickinson’s envelope poems, The Gorgeous Nothings, Jen Bervin suggests that Dickinson’s collection of poems written on reused envelopes “convey[s] a sense of New England thrift and her relationship to the larger … Continue reading
“Any printed book is, as a matter of fact, both the product of one complex set of social and technological processes and also the starting point for another.” -Adrian Johns, The Nature of the Book “Hermeneutic Code…all those units … Continue reading