A Conjoined Book: Aftermath and Become Tree, Become Bird - Softcover

Kelsey, Karla

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1890650943 ISBN 13: 9781890650940

Publisher: Omnidawn Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

Karla Kelsey's A Conjoined Book hinges together two texts-Aftermath and Become Tree, Become Bird-to create a meditation on the nature of aboutness. Aftermath unfolds after an unnamed ecological/emotional fracture, creating a landscape of rift where the "I" imagines herself as "she," and perceptions weave into memory and fiction. Become Tree, Become Bird grafts the Brothers Grimm's The Juniper Tree to the body of Aftermath, reworking what has splintered into a variation of fairy tale. Throughout A Conjoined Book, Kelsey's condensed imagery, shifting viewpoints, and interwoven formal structures set lyric and narrative a-shimmer. Blending experiment and tradition, this book will appeal to a wide audience interested in seeing how fairy tale, philosophy, ecology, narratology, history. As Julie Carr writes:"horror, elegy, mystery, fairy tale, lyric, treatise, fragment meet one another with all their intensities of emotion and intellect."

About this title

About the Author

Karla Kelsey's poetry books include Blood Feather; A Conjoined Book, also published by Omnidawn; Iteration Nets; and Knowledge, Forms, the Aviary, selected by Carolyn Forché for the Sawtooth Poetry Prize. Her book of experimental essays, Of Sphere, was selected by Carla Harryman for the 2016 Essay Press Prize. With Aaron McCollough, she copublishes SplitLevel Texts, a press specializing in hybrid genre projects.

Edition details

• Publisher: Omnidawn Publishing
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1890650943
• ISBN 13: 9781890650940
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 104