Showing posts with label Gertrude Stein. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gertrude Stein. Show all posts

Sunday, September 13, 2015

Emmalea Russo's "Stanza V," from Gertrude Stein's Stanzas in Meditation (pub. 1956) featured in her interview with the Textile Arts Center. Russo's entire project, they (GAUSS PDF, 2014), is viewable online here.

Find more of Russo's work, poetry preoccupied with thread and textile, including her deconstruction and reconstruction of Anne Carson's Nox, and her installation Rooms, from Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons, online.


Wednesday, January 30, 2013


 HOLLY MELGARD
THE MAKING OF THE AMERICANS
TROLL THREAD 2012
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Holly Melgard's The Making of the Americans (Troll Thread, 2012), in which she deletes all repeated words from her source text (Gertrude Stein's The Making of Americans (1925)). Melgard's work is viewable online here.

Melgard explains, "Poems can exploit what it is in books that makes texts appear as “text”; how their distributions and multiple frameworks of production may play a material role in their composure, their poetics. Like Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans, which gets called 'unreadable' because it’s super 'repetitive'.... NOW 'there is no such thing as repetition' in The Making of Americans, because I deleted it." 

Read more of Melgard's ideas over at Elective Affinities, here

Plus, it's listed (along with some other interesting and conceptual work) as one of the top poetry books of 2012 by MS Magazine! (Thanks, Harriet, for the link.) 

We can also purchase a physical copy of Melgard's work here.

Friday, February 10, 2012

from Katrina Rodabaugh's Dresses/Objects project (2007-2010), an art installation based on Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons. As part of the project, she explains, "I printed poems from Gertrude Stein’s book, Tender Buttons, on to recycled fabric with a letterpress," here. An image of the whole dress here. Some fascinating discussion--with more pictures--here.