JESSE GLASS Engages
Envelope Poems: Poetry by Emily Dickinson, edited by Jen Bervin and Marta Werner
(New Directions /
Christine Burgin Gallery, 2016)
Came
across...and bought...Emily Dickinson's Envelope
Poems...a rendering down of The Gorgeous Nothings to a tiny version big enough to be hidden in a desk drawer to be rediscovered
after one's death.
From The Gorgeous Nothings (click on all images to enlarge):
Shed of the
scholarly apparatus of The Gorgeous
Nothings, Envelope Poems is an
interesting volume with texts—here’s a sample:
It reminds
me of Man's Wows—my own small book of
erasure poems from the early 80's. (Man’s
Wows was originally published on special papers by Charles Alexander’s
Black Mesa Press in 1982, and is now available online through Duration Press.) Here are two samples:
The
transcriptions by Jen Bervin and Marta Werner are fun and the photographs of
the hapticity of the originals effective ... one can almost smell the
silverfish droppings and chemical fug of foxing. They also suggest the creation
of ever more interesting Poem-Objects. I don't think these are ED's poems but
are Bervin and Werner’s found poems. And they do work as such.
*****
Jesse Glass
is the author of numerous books and has exhibited his visual art in a number of
locations. He recently released Charm for
Survivors, Selected Painted Books & Sequences from The Knives Forks
Spoons Press (2017).
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