Abra

by Kate Durbin, Amaranth Borsuk

Paperback

First published January 1, 2016

About the author

Kate Durbin is a writer and artist from Los Angeles, California. Her books include Hoarders (Wave Books), E! Entertainment (Wonder), The Ravenous Audience (Akashic Books), and ABRA (1913 Press). ABRA is also an iOS app that is "a living text," which won the 2017 international Turn On Literature Prize for electronic literature. In 2015 and in 2020, she was the Arts Queensland Poet-in-Residence in Brisbane, Australia.

Kate's writing has been published in Art in America, The American Poetry Review, Poetry Magazine, Flaunt, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. Her website is www.katedurbin.la.

Reviews

[Siel Ju · Rating 4 out of 5]

“after rupture tar stars restart”
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Abra is a book of poems and etchings created as a collaboration between two poets I know and like. This experimental book plays with words like LEGO blocks, moving them around and juxtaposing them in new pretty combos.