+|'me'S-pace

by Christine Wertheim, Dodie Bellamy (introduction)

Poetry. +|`me'S-pace, doc. 001.b is book 1, volume 2 of a wider, ongoing project known as "For Love Alone" Christina'S-tead , a poetic enquiry into the current state of the English tongue. "In a time when many are questioning if we still need formalism and feminism, Wertheim's +|`me'S-pace, doc. 001.b is a spirited and fun defense of both. Written in part as a didactic instructional manual that cannot keep itself from constantly going astray into beautiful and challenging language play, this is a book that asks crucial questions and reconfigures recent histories. It is essential for its arguments. But even more, it is fun to read for its word play"—Juliana Spahr. Introduction by Dodie Bellamy and art by Lisa Darms.

Genres: Poetry

112 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2007

About the author

Christine Wertheim is a poet, critic, performer and curator with a doctorate in literature and semiotics from Middlesex University. She is the author of +|‘me’S-pace (Les Figues Press), a book of poetics, and a chapbook from Triage, and the editor of Feminniasance (Les Figues Press, 2010). Recent critical work on art, literature and aesthetics has been published in X-tra, Cabinet and The Quick and the Dead, The Walker Art Centre. Recent poetry appears in Drunken Boat, Tarpaulin Sky and Veer. With Matias Viegener she has edited the anthologies Seancé and The nOulipian Analects. Untitled is forthcoming. She has lectured and performed internationally, most recently at Soundeye poetry festival in Ireland, and she co-directs the Institute For Figuring (IFF), which curates exhibitions and seminars on the intersection of art, science and mathematics, see http://theiff.org/ Research and teaching interests include verbo-visual poetry, feminist art history, aesthetic theory and Pataphysics.

Reviews

[Amy · Rating 5 out of 5]

In a body infested by English, how might strings (theory) (33) slip (8) into knot t(ed) (54) crystals (96)? How are litteral poetics expressed at bOth quantum and astronomical scales in +I’me’S-pace?

[in8 · Rating 5 out of 5]

discussed it here; http://5cense.com/10/parsing_void.htm