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All of We: Found Poems (Visual Poetry) - Softcover

Book 1 of 2: Visual Poetry

Kleinberg, J.I.

 
9798951689016: All of We: Found Poems (Visual Poetry)

Synopsis

The visual poems in All of We are part of J.I. Kleinberg’s expansive series of collages built from phrases that occur through the happenstance of magazine page design. For more than 15 years, Kleinberg has discovered, harvested, and recast these accidental lines into visual poems that find themselves at the intersection of Dada and Twitter, ransom note and haiku.
Within the poems, each contiguous fragment of found text is literally torn from its original sense and syntax and meant to be read as a poetic line. Kleinberg generally begins without a subject in mind. “I wait to discover what the magazine page has to tell me.” The All of We series began with the found line, We the ocean (page 50). “There was a column break between We and the ocean, but I read across the gutter and recognized that familiar ‘We the people’ syntax.”
“I had already been thinking about the current rhetoric of otherness and blame – the narcissistic I, the accusatory you, the divisive they. And the embracing we that acknowledges our flaws, mistakes, and losses along with our potent creative abundance.”
Once she identified that distinctive language, Kleinberg searched for more examples. “I probably collected around 500 of these lines, saying to myself, Yes, we are this and this and this.” Then, as with all the found poems, the lines had to find one another, fitting together in pairs and triads, shuffled around on the work table and the green background until they could be called poems.
The series could go on and on; All of We is a selection, a beginning, an invitation to inclusiveness.

J.I. (Judy) Kleinberg writes both conventional-form and visual poetry. Her work is widely published in journals and anthologies, and collected in four chapbooks and a full-length volume. Her visual poems have been featured in two solo exhibits: The poem My trembling candle at Beyond Baroque, and orchestrated light. Her work was displayed at the Skagit River Poetry Festival; in The Cutting Edge: Art of Collage, and in Ink, Paper, Scissors: nature speaks in three voices. In addition to private collections, four of her found poems are in the collection of the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York City. Kleinberg lives in Bellingham, Washington, USA. For more information, visit chocolateisaverb.wordpress.com. For more about her visual poetry process, see the interview in The Journal of Radical Wonder at medium.com/@jikleinberg.

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About the Author

J.I. (Judy) Kleinberg writes both conventional-form and visual poetry. Her what is he del published in joume ter and loes have collected in fair two solo exhibits: The poem My trembling candle at Beyond Baroque, and orchestrated light. Her work was displayed at the Skagit River Poetry Festival; in The Cutting Edge: Art of Collage, and in Ink, Paper, Scissors: nature speaks in three voices.In addition to private collections, four of her found poems are in the collection of the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York City. Kleinberg lives in Bellingham, Washington, USA.

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