Iduna

by Kari Edwards

"Paratexts and processing suggestions stream through Kari Edwards's iduna... The constant drive to make use of formal possibilities at the level of page and opening brings graphic format into substantive play... A machinic drive echoes in this work as a human, subjective voice struggles to come through the registers of current language events, noise, news, records, communications. The shape of human outcry presses through thr mass of mediated material. Form embodies possibilities enabled by the instructions of forced justification, font shifts, hard returns, tabs, chunked blocks, and other basic elements of text processing... Before we can ask what something means when we read it, we must ask what it means to read--and Edwards poses that as a high-stakes question providing the point of departure for current poetic production."-- Johanna Drucker.

Genres: Poetry

104 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

Reviews

[Theo · Rating 5 out of 5]

The most beautiful book I have ever read. Even without reading it, just flipping through the pages to peek at the layout, is gorgeous. It can be disconcerting at times, with all the texts going on at once, but the language and the different ways the texts converge is astounding.

[Tina. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Holy shit!

[Mills College Library]

811.6 E2655i 2003