Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination
Posted: September 11, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: obsolete objects in the literary imagination, zine 2 Comments »After a couple of hours hand-feeding single sheets of vellum and cardstock into the photocopier to keep it from jamming, the new zine is ready to go! I had some hard-napping company while I assembled these all in my living room, listening to mixed tapes I made as a teenager because my CD player seems to have tanked.
Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination is actually the title of a book by Francesco Orlando. It’s also a theoretical text with the most amazingly self-reflexive table of contents I’ve ever seen. My friend Daniel and I decided to embark upon a bit of a writing challenge this summer – take the chapter titles from this book as titles for our own work, and write poems tangentially spinning off them, making one piece a week for the duration of July and August. Here’s what I came up with:
Once again, I’ve done a limited run of these. Get them while I’ve got ‘em! You can order a copy from me for 3$ + shipping, via bitsofstringATyahooDOTca
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