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ANIMATE, INANIMATE AIMS
Poetry. "Drawing the ANIMATE, INANIMATE AIM together, they settle into difference. With subtle contagion of body as structured text, titled ligatures in the midst, thick with emotional materiel, Brenda Iijima's work rhymes--off or near--sight as sound. Nature for culture, culture as nature, 'we/ can play school under a tree' or at war. Breaking and building in twitchy compression, the way Marie Menken's hand-held camera swings, framed and fabulous, this exuberant tragic book of drawings and poems will hook you"--Norma Cole. "A kind of necessity is created here for saying, rejuvenating myths, turning anger into jouissance, making thoughts a river of light...Beware: we won't be chagrined anymore; such subversion is the changing of the world"--Etel Adnan.
112 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 2006
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May 5, 2009
Reading Language poetry usually makes me want to dash my head against rocks. For some reason, this convinces me it is good for me. Brenda Iijima's work does not make me want to dash my head against rocks though. Is it possible that it is still good for me?
January 9, 2008
While I love all of Brenda's writing, this is from one of my favorite periods.
April 15, 2008
somehow steinian writing. compelling cover design
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