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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Alphabet Theater

Alphabet Theater

Stricker, Meredith

Paperback

Series: Wesleyan Poetry

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $15.95

ISBN10: 0819565237
ISBN13: 9780819565235
Publisher: Wesleyan Univ Pr
Published: Mar 10 2003
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.32 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.22
Language: English

Intelligent, emotionally engaging multi-media performance poetry.

A mixed-media tour de force, Alphabet Theater breaks open the page to extend poetic practice into the realms of visual art and performance. Its complex and innovative format layers poetry, video stills, drawing and collages in pieces that range from performance art to opera and political theater. The book's four distinctive sections encompass four separate performances. In The Poor Body, first performed in collaboration with choreographer Elizabeth Lahey, the text alternates with video stills of movement. The Lightning Hive is a semiotic opera swarming with letters and bees in motion, accompanied by staging notes and drawings. The performance space The Still Place is the page itself, exploring the fragile border between the I and the not-I. Finally, Read My Apocalypse, is a performance that tracks the months preceding the Gulf War in a kind of desperate vaudeville with material and references ranging from Milton and apocalypse psychology to Pat Robertson, Love Canal and W.C. Williams. This book is a thoroughly engaging transit through the landscapes of contemporary culture and relationships.

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