Dog Ear by Erica Baum
Dog Ear by Erica Baum
Publisher: Ugly Duckling Presse
ISBN-13: 978-1-933254-71-5
Price: $25
Genre: Poetry
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The Recommend
Erica Baum’s Dog Ear is my poetry pick of the year.
A full-colour sampling of Baum’s photographs of dog-eared texts, Dog Ear is a textbook example of how poetry can re-charge the mundane. With each page, Baum creates a new text by revealing poetic possibilities of the folded corners of found pulp books.
With a forward by Kenneth Goldsmith and an afterword by Béatrice Gross, Dog Ear revels in how the quotidian motion of folding a corner can be entirely unexpected and generative.
Beautifully conceived and wonderfully photographed, Dog Ear is a treat.
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derek beaulieu!
derek beaulieu is the author of 9 books of poetry and prose including seen of the crime: essays on conceptual writing (Snare, 2011). He can be found online at www.derekbeaulieu.wordpress.com.
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