The Field Is Lethal

Doppelt, Suzanne

ISBN 10: 193399620X / ISBN 13: 9781933996202

Published by Counterpath Press, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Field Is Lethal
• Publisher: Counterpath Press
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 193399620X
• ISBN 13: 9781933996202
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 5 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

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Synopsis

Poetry. Translated from the French by Cole Swensen. The supernatural, ventriloquism, table-turning, magic carpets, ghosts, THE FIELD IS LETHAL is immersed in a late nineteeth-century spiritualism. Borrowing freely from folklore and anecdote, Doppelt mixes oblique references, catching us in the sound and play of language as much as of ideas. Well-known as a photographer, Doppelt juxtaposes her text with delicate, eerie images. As Avital Ronell writes in her Postface for the book, we appreciate here "her manner, her astonishing modalities, the precision of her cuts."

About the Author

Suzanne Doppelt, a well-known French photographer, has collaborated with various other artists and writers, including Georges Aperghis, Ryoko Sekiguchi, and Anne Portugal. Director of the "Cabinet of Curiosities" series for the Parisian publisher Bayard and poetry editor for the cultural review Vacarme, she has held residencies with Inventaire-Invention, the Fondation Royaumont, and various other cultural institutions, and her photography has been in solo and group shows at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Le Centre Culturel of Bastia, L'Institut Franēais of Naples, Le Pavillon des Arts, L'Ecole des Beaux Arts in Nīmes, New York University, the Cabinet d'Art Graphique of the Louvre, and the Galerie Martine Aboucaya in Paris.