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Universe / Diana Hamilton
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FA.B116.2221
5.25 x 8 in; 13.3 x 20.3 cm
2014
Stapled pamphlet binding. Typeset in Perpetua with Avenir titles and printed on partially recycled paper. Text by Diana Hamilton. 36 pages. Edition of 500.
"Universe is a long poem about exemplarity. Here, for example, hair-cutting, the wearing of hats, and soviet bacilli stand in for questions about consent, social conventions, and racism. Taking these substitutions largely from texts on moral philosophy, the poem rewrites them in and out of their original contexts. In this new, all-the-more exemplary world of pushing and shoving, someone has wronged someone. But who? The revenge is combinatory, and the lines are short." -- Ugly Duckling Presse