Poetry. Illustrated with photographs by Naomi Yang. AFTERIMAGE is the testimonial of a survivor's son. A hybrid work—part treatise, part memoir, part lyric—the text thinks through a problem prompted by confusions between the author's imagination and his father's history: "Do we only tell each other's stories? Ask others to tell our own? Can we tell our own? Or is that what stories are for—to tell someone else's, and allow another to tell yours?"
Author City: CAMBRIDGE, MA USA
Damon Krukowski is the author of 5000 MUSICAL TERMS (Burning Deck, 1995), THE MEMORY THEATER BURNED (Turtle Point Press, 2004) and AFTERIMAGE (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2011). In 1989, he and Naomi Yang co-founded Exact Change, a press that publishes books of experimental literature with an emphasis on Surrealism, Dada, Pataphysics, and other nineteenth and twentieth century avant-garde art movements. Together, Krukowski and Yang are musicians in the bands Damon & Naomi and Galaxie 500.
Reviews and Other Links
Zach Savich @ Ron Slate's On the Seawall
“Bookended by the riotously colorful silence of Naomi Yang’s photographs, this is a work about what remains, what lodges in the inner eye and inmost mind and keeps on traveling with us. With the itinerant life of a musician as backdrop, Krukowski’s vivid blocks of text shift through haunted spaces—rooms, dreams, memories—in a very present grapple with the past. And all the while, the book is being written; tenuously, marvelously, it is taking place right before our eyes.”
—Cole Swensen