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Post by moira on Dec 30, 2010 18:34:43 GMT 2
Wompo Publishers NewspaperNews this week from Black Radish Books (back issues of the newspaper are archived at the Wompo festival of women's poetry here: wompherence.proboards.com ). 1. Black Radish Books announces the release of its newest collection: Sonja Sekula, Grace in a cow's eye: a memoir by Kathrin Schaeppi. This is Schaeppi’s first full-length collection of poems, and the fourth release from the book publishing collective, Black Radish Books (BRB). www.blackradishbooks.org/schaeppi.htmlRiffing on the writing and paintings of Sonja Sekula, a Swiss avant-garde artist active in New York in the 40s and 50s, "Schaeppi makes words into shapes into painting into ambiguated memoir—who is speaking? —of artist on artist. There is true pain here; attempts at survival. And there is art," writes Cara Benson. Collaged from the artist's secret art-books, paintings, poetry, journals, sketchbooks, and letters, Schaeppi composes a lament and a renewal in response to the multiple dilemmas--gender, sexual orientation, mental illness--against which Sekula struggled. Copies are available from SPD: www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780982573150/sonja-sekula--grace-in-a-cows-eye--a-memoir.aspx
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