I-Formation, Book 1

Auteur

Anne Gorrick lives in West Park, NY, and is a visual artist as well as a poet. Her poems have appeared in the journals American Letters and Commentary, FENCE, Gutcult, Shearsman, and Sulfur among others. Collaborating with artist Cynthia Winika, she produced a limited edition artists' book, Swans, the ice, she said, through the Women's Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY. She also curates the reading series, Cadmium Text, devoted to local, innovative writing. She is the author of I-FORMATION, BOOK 1 (2010), I-FORMATION, BOOK 2 (2012), and KYOTOLOGIC (2008), all from Shearsman Books.

Texte du rabat

"In this book, Anne Gorrick writes poems of heft and delicacy. Each is constructed as a musical thinking through of an idea, as she builds a poem through deft and fluid repetition and musical ways of speaking. Even though these poems exist here only on the page, her voice, unique and personal, is present in each, and it guides us through her surreal landscapes of concrete abstraction with gentle tenacity and a rich and vivid vocabulary. Everything exists, in her poems, as a thought, as a vision, as a sound through space, and all at once. What a poem must do to justify its existence is to surprise us with its necessary inevitability, which is what these poems do piece by piece, one by one, and together." -Geof Huth