Poetry. "Drawing the ANIMATE, INANIMATE AIM together, they settle into difference. With subtle contagion of body as structured text, titled ligatures in the midst, thick with emotional materiel, Brenda Iijima's work rhymes--off or near--sight as sound. Nature for culture, culture as nature, 'we/ can play school under a tree' or at war. Breaking and building in twitchy compression, the way Marie Menken's hand-held camera swings, framed and fabulous, this exuberant tragic book of drawings and poems will hook you"--Norma Cole. "A kind of necessity is created here for saying, rejuvenating myths, turning anger into jouissance, making thoughts a river of light...Beware: we won't be chagrined anymore; such subversion is the changing of the world"--Etel Adnan.
Author Hometown: BROOKLYN, NY USA
About the author: Brenda Iijima is the author of IF NOT METAMORPHIC (Ahsahta Press, 2010), REVV. YOU'LL—UTION (Displaced Press, 2009) SUBSISTENCE EQUIPMENT (Faux Press, 2008) ANIMATE, INANIMATE AIMS (Litmus, 2007) and AROUND SEA (O Books, 2004). She edited the collection ECO LANGUAGE READER (Nightboat Books, 2010) and is currently the editor of Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs. She is the art editor at Boog City—a newspaper and online source for artists and poets in East Village—and she is a visual artist. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches at Cooper Union.
Reviews:
http://jacketmagazine.com/36/r-iijima-rb-fink.shtml
http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/groups/XCP/XCP_146_Iijima_9-30-07.mp3
http://galatearesurrection11.blogspot.com/2008/12/animate-inanimate-aims-by-brenda-iijima.html
http://jacketmagazine.com/36/r-iijima-rb-fink.shtml
