Description
Fiction. Philosophy. Foreword by Andrew Joron. Neither classifiable as fiction nor philosophy, ITCH recounts its narrator's arousal to the possibility of narration, while dredging through the viscera of corporeal awareness to find succor in the prospect of the telling of the tale. Written in propositional aphorisms both sinuously dense and lyrically precise, ITCH occupies a diegetic space somewhere between the austerity of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations and the confessional interruptions of Stern's Tristram Shandy—philosophy with an unreliable narrator, fiction plotted from the compass of first premises to the abject specificity of sensation, of the itch...
Author Bio
Writer and artist Steven Seidenberg is the author of PLAIN SIGHT (Roof Books, 2020), SITU (Black Sun Lit, 2018), ITCH (RAW ArT Press, 2014), and numerous chapbooks of poetry and aphorism. His collections of photographs include Pipevalve: Berlin, and Imaging Failure: Abandoned Lives of the Italian South. He has exhibited his visual work in Japan, Italy, Germany, Mexico, and the United States. From 2012-2017 he co-edited the poetry journal pallaksch.pallaksch. Based in San Francisco, Seidenberg travels broadly to give talks and readings, both focused on his own work as writer and photographer, and in collaboration with anthropologists, philosophers, and artists from around the world.
Author City: SAN FRANCISCO, CA USA