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Ouvert Oeuvre : Openings & Touching in the Wake of the Virus / Adeena Karasick, Warren Lehrer
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FA.B132.3082
6.25” x 8”
2023
From artist website:
Poems written by Adeena Karasick. Book visualized by Warren Lehrer.
Published by Lavender Ink Press. October, 2023.
6.25” x 8” x 96 pages. 3-color foil-stamped, 3-piece Hardcover binding, smythe-sewn,
printed on acid-free, archival paper, black and white interior.
https://warrenlehrer.com/ouvert-oeuvre-openings-2023/
From back cover description:
"Inscribing what Levinas might call “espace vital” (the space we can survive), Ouvert Oeuvre: Openings is an ecstatically wrought, never quite post-Covid celebration/trepidation of openings. Written by Adeena Karasick and visualized by master book artist/vis lit pioneer Warren Lehrer, the two poems track the pain of openings read through socio-economic, geographic and bodily space. They explore a range of intralingual etymologies of the word opening, laced with post-consumerist and erotic language, theoretical discourse, philosophical and Kabbalistic aphorisms. The poems foreground language as an organism of hope—highlighting the concept of opening as an ever-swirling palimpsest of spectral voices, textures, whispers and codes transported through passion, politics and pleasure as we negotiate loss and light."
Poems written by Adeena Karasick. Book visualized by Warren Lehrer.
Published by Lavender Ink Press. October, 2023.
6.25” x 8” x 96 pages. 3-color foil-stamped, 3-piece Hardcover binding, smythe-sewn,
printed on acid-free, archival paper, black and white interior.
https://warrenlehrer.com/ouvert-oeuvre-openings-2023/
From back cover description:
"Inscribing what Levinas might call “espace vital” (the space we can survive), Ouvert Oeuvre: Openings is an ecstatically wrought, never quite post-Covid celebration/trepidation of openings. Written by Adeena Karasick and visualized by master book artist/vis lit pioneer Warren Lehrer, the two poems track the pain of openings read through socio-economic, geographic and bodily space. They explore a range of intralingual etymologies of the word opening, laced with post-consumerist and erotic language, theoretical discourse, philosophical and Kabbalistic aphorisms. The poems foreground language as an organism of hope—highlighting the concept of opening as an ever-swirling palimpsest of spectral voices, textures, whispers and codes transported through passion, politics and pleasure as we negotiate loss and light."