Poetry. "In KYOTOLOGIC, Anne Gorrick takes Sei Shonagon's poetic diaries as materials for a new performance of eccentric intimacy. A book of days that is also a "model of interruptions," Gorrick's work admits us as voyeurs, offers us mysterious routines in lieu of identity, and includes history (albeit processual history). Trust that this book is written in silk, cherries, and "with a good pen," but don't expect orientalism or even orientation, as such. The logic of KYOTOLOGIC is a cold engagement with personhood mediated by a world of things"--Aaron McCollough.

Author City: West Park, NY USA

Anne Gorrick lives in West Park, NY, and is a visual artist as well as a poet. Her poems have appeared in the journals American Letters and Commentary, FENCE, Gutcult, Shearsman, and Sulfur among others. Collaborating with artist Cynthia Winika, she produced a limited edition artists' book, "Swans, the ice," she said, through the Women's Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY. She also curates the reading series, Cadmium Text, devoted to local, innovative writing. She is the author of I-FORMATION, BOOK 1 and KYOTOLOGIC, both from Shearsman Books.