Dusie Kollectiv 2008 chap produced by Mark Lamoureux
In part with the third dusie kollektiv
The complete issue will be available as well at d...
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May 21, 2009
Kathrin
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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 ditti More...
We are introduced to the chap by Hillman’s epigraph: it is not the moment “to sing normal, comforting ditti More...
May 12, 2009
Marthe
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"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 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 More...
Jun 29, 2011
Kristine
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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…”
Jun 21, 2009
Dusie Press
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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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