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Annunciation
The Center for Book Arts
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"Annunciation
uses the dash as if it had never been used before, not even
by Dickinson. In other words, the gives and takes of tempo,
the stasis and kinesia, the liquid furling and unfurling of
the lines of these poems are highly original and smart. I
admire, as well, the sleight of hand transformations of the
book: a sky becomes a duomo and then a drop cloth over a cage.
Finally, this is an exceptionally intelligent meditation upon
birth, the body, the boundary."
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-Lynn Emanuel
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| Annunciation is a poem
in 19 sections. The poem travels from Florence (Italy) to New
York to Kansas City to Nova Scotia and considers motherhood,
sex, the Virgin Mary, pregnancy, and the body. In 2002 Annunciation
was chosen by Sharon Dolin and Lynn Emanuel as the winner of
the Center for Book Arts Chapbook Competition. One hundred letter
press chapbooks were designed and printed by book artist Roni
Gross. |
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