Early Linoleum - Softcover

Iijima, Brenda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1933996420 ISBN 13: 9781933996424

Publisher: Counterpath Press, 2015

Synopsis

Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. In a neural rush, EARLY LINOLEUM engages the propulsive flow of contemporaneous valences—psycho- geography meets in the force-field of biopolitical conditions. Poet activists congregate on the steps of the New York Public library, there's art beneath the dirt, rock outcroppings communicate with Jacques Derrida and the transactions that make war and love collide. In this textual sensorium, connections between climate ecology and political ecology are reckoned with somatically and lyrically, locally and globally. The thinking through charged spaces within and between human animal structures, especially during states of perpetual strife, as in global climate change and war—the dissonance, air, wind flow, coagulated ideas, affective registers—frequencies diffuse or mutate, streaming from urban sites to the rural and wild. This work is a revelatory and bold response for our times.

About this title

About the Author

Brenda Iijima was born in the hilly town of North Adams, Massachusetts. Her books include: AROUND SEA (O Books, 2004), ANIMATE, INANIMATE AIMS (Litmus Press, 2007), REVV. YOU'LL- UTION (Displaced Press, 2009), IF NOT METAMORPHIC (Ahsahta Press, 2010), and EARLY LINOLEUM (Counterpath Press, 2015). She is also the author of numerous chapbooks and artist's books, and editor of the ECO LANGUAGE READER (Nightboat Books and PP@YYL, 2010). She is the editor of Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, located in Brooklyn, NY. The press will publish its 50th book this year.

Edition details

• Publisher: Counterpath Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1933996420
• ISBN 13: 9781933996424
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 147