Asemic Kill City Detail from a scarf, Raw Power/Kill City: For James Williamson on the Occasion of His Rejoining Iggy and the Stooges After Forty Years. Silk and cotton |
ABC: for Anne Blonstein The late English poet Anne Blonstein wrote her initials using the Greek alphabet; she used Hebrew and traditional Jewish exegetical techniques in her constraint-based writing; and she lived in Basel, at the crossroads of many languages (French, German, Swiss-German, etc.) that use the Roman alphabet. Cancer took her life far too soon. Linen, cotton, metallic thread, glass beads. |
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The Bang Detail from a scarf, The Bang/The Stooges: For Derek See, producer and guitarist for The Bang, guitar technician for Iggy and the Stooges. Cotton |
The Stooges Detail from a scarf, The Bang/The Stooges: For Derek See, producer and guitarist for The Bang, guitar technician for Iggy and the Stooges. Cotton |
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FUN Detail from a scarf, FUNHOUSE: For Steve Mackay, saxophonist for Iggy and the Stooges.. Cotton |
WATT Detail from a scarf, WATT/FROM PEDRO: For Samuel Beckett and Mike Watt, bassist for Iggy and the Stooges (and many other bands). Silk and cotton |
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Listen to Your Mothers For Adeena Karasick." Shin (the tooth), Mem (water) and Alef (the ox) are referred to as the Three Mothers because of their foundational importance in Kabbalistic thought. They also spell out the command, "Listen!" The ox's horns form Moms' megaphone. |
FUNHOUSE Detail from a scarf, FUNHOUSE: For Steve Mackay, saxophonist for Iggy and the Stooges. Cotton |
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Baby Blanket After Man Ray's 'Lautgedichte. Wool and cotton |
Rock and Roll Detail from a scarf, Rock and Roll/Idle No More, for Paul Seesequasis. Cotton |
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SOS: for Michael Hancher I made this for the chair of my department at the University of Minnesota in 2006: he was a very kind person and the department was in a critical moment. I later published it in Annie Ballardini's and Obododimma Oha's online 100,000 Poets for Change issue of the Poet's Corner.www.fieralingue.it |
Flaxen: for Jen Bervin The marvelous textile artist/poet Jen Bervin is long and lanky and beautiful. We both like this word a great deal, as it captures a textilic and metaphoric way of talking about one aspect of a woman's (or man's) beauty. |
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The Millay Sisters Learn to Cuss: for the Millay Colony for the Arts The quote from Norma Millay, the poet's sister, explains how the sisters would practice uttering profanities over their mending in order to fit in with their wild new milieu in Greenwich Village. The V is for Vincent and a few other things, and the butterfly (a candle burning at both ends), wild thyme and wild strawberry were all creatures to be found in abundance in July at the Colony. |
KANDU: for Kathrin Schaeppi and Urs. I stayed in Basel, Switzerland, in May and June 2011. The wifi network was named after my hostess and her boyfriend, K- and-U. Cotton on linen. It was an extremely important word in the maintenance of my sanity and daily routine. Cotton on linen |
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Regressive (asemic) Rock and Roll Detail from a scarf, Rock and Roll/Idle No More, for Paul Seesequasis.. The dark side of the moon, the "wrong" side of the scarf. Errant, awkward, asemic or dyssemic communication is of great appeal. Cotton |