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UP
by
Cara Benson
Dusie Kollectiv 2008 chap produced by Mark Lamoureux
In part with the third dusie kollektiv
The complete issue will be available as well at dusie.org
the 49 contributors are:
Jared Hayes, Cara Benson, Amy King, Emma Phillipps, Arielle Guy, Jane Sprague, Ana Bozicevic, Anna Moschovakis, Kaia Sand, Anna Fulford, Samar Abulhassan, Mackenzie Carignan, Zoe Skoulding, Catherine Meng...more
In part with the third dusie kollektiv
The complete issue will be available as well at dusie.org
the 49 contributors are:
Jared Hayes, Cara Benson, Amy King, Emma Phillipps, Arielle Guy, Jane Sprague, Ana Bozicevic, Anna Moschovakis, Kaia Sand, Anna Fulford, Samar Abulhassan, Mackenzie Carignan, Zoe Skoulding, Catherine Meng...more
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2008
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In a world in crisis P is d, and U becomes a smile upside down--yes, a frown. Or perhaps the knowing wink of a cartoon character. The cover page of “UP” designed by Mark Lamoureux is a yield sign where "UP" inverted creates cognitive dissonance. For example the cognitive dissonance of a mind understanding implications of a warming climate and yet its failure to yield.
We are introduced to the chap by Hillman’s epigraph: it is not the moment “to sing normal, comforting ditties.”
“This is what I lll...more
We are introduced to the chap by Hillman’s epigraph: it is not the moment “to sing normal, comforting ditties.”
“This is what I lll...more
"Up", upside down, upsetting the apple cart, up-ended, Cara Benson's Dusie Chapbook, designed by Mark Lamoureaux, up-sets expectations, claiming its spacious pages like canvases.
Where UP is down, voices are layered one against another -- shouting, exclaiming, challenging, interrupting, disrupting, silent: a linguistic act of disobedience. Adopting Brenda Hillman's charge that environmental harm demands something more than "comforting ditties", Benson attacks the page. Alarums, shouts, delight, g...more
Where UP is down, voices are layered one against another -- shouting, exclaiming, challenging, interrupting, disrupting, silent: a linguistic act of disobedience. Adopting Brenda Hillman's charge that environmental harm demands something more than "comforting ditties", Benson attacks the page. Alarums, shouts, delight, g...more
It may be an understatement to call this terse objet d'art “a book,” as it has transcended that distinction. It is an experience, a descent into loneliness and near-madness.
It intones: “How pliable / You want to be…”
It intones: “How pliable / You want to be…”
Watching Benson perform brings this text to a whole new level. I like how up become du. Danger becomes imperative, real and urgent. Everything is askew!
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