To Be Hung from the Ceiling By Strings of Varying Length

by Rick Reid, Chris Abani (Editor)

This groundbreaking poetry collection is a work of interval, delay, and retracing; a writing of shifts of silence. Each page serves as a kind of frame that superimposes itself temporally, aurally, and visually on pages that come before and after.

Rick Reid is a conceptual artist and writer currently living in Brooklyn, New York.

100 pages, Paperback

First published March 5, 2009

Reviews

[Bridget]

It's hard to hold a book like this, in hand, without having the raw desire to tear it gently apart, word from limb, and string it-- with blue electrician's tape, agave gum and a bit of rubbing alcohol--as the title asks.

True art, the words of Rick Reid sound like a girl on a three-legged chair, teetering to catch her balance, while attaching said strings to her vaulted ceiling: breathless, enchanted, loud.

Truly smashing. Truly visionary. Truly.

[Krishna Cousins]

I feel like this went over my head somehow.

[Cynthia Reeser]

Review here: http://www.newpages.com/bookreviews/2...