I Take Back the Sponge Cake: A Lyrical Choose-Your-Own-Adventure
Language: English
Published by Rose Metal Press, 2012
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- Title
- I Take Back the Sponge Cake: A Lyrical Choose-Your-Own-Adventure
- Author
- Nelson, Sierra
- Publisher
- Rose Metal Press
- Publication year
- 2012
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0984616640
- ISBN 13
- 9780984616640
- Item weight
- 0.25 pounds
Erdrich and Nelson's collaboration is a delight. There's a perfect amount of distance between the poems and the images in this book--enough to allow for the snap of connection and the fizz of dissonance. Their lyrical invention asks you to choose between homophones to complete a given sentence, creating a surprising portrait of your own disposition at the same time that it produces multiple pathways to the book's splendid endings.--Matthea Harvey
Antic, frantic, didactic, and seriously at play in a word territory Erdrich and Nelson make up, find, map, and inhabit. I TAKE BACK THE SPONGE CAKE invites anyone who wants to explore it with them to come along, providing handy instructions, guides, surprises, and illustrations, saying to anyone who's inclined to join in, there's plenty of room, you're welcome.--Dara Wier
I TAKE BACK THE SPONGE CAKE is an invitation to adventure in Loren Erdrich and Sierra Nelson's dream mystery. Allured and implicated by the sweet perversity of the mutable body, we're asked to hold rib cages, feel for faces in the mirror, take bunnies by the ears. Each page reverses the work of the image; here, lyric illuminates illustration. I found myself asking, how do you recognize a text without words? How do you recognize a ghost without her sheet and chains?--Sommer Browning
At the core of the mobius world of I TAKE BACK THE SPONGE CAKE is joy, a child-like joy of returning to the rhetoric of pick-your-own-path-adventures, a joy of associative play between image and verse, a joy in the terror of homophones and tongue-stuck lovers, and the culminating joy of the text making and remaking itself. This morphing book continually satisfies my urge for more: more absurdity, more darkness, more fun, more fish-man monsters with the orangey teeth.--Mathias Svalina
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About the Author
Sierra Nelson's poems have appeared in Crazyhorse, Poetry Northwest, City Arts Magazine, Forklift, Ohio, Painted Bride Quarterly, and DIAGRAM, among others. For over a decade she has collaboratively written and performed as co-founder of The Typing Explosion and the Vis-à-Vis Society, including at the 2003 Venice Biennale and on the Wave Books Poetry Bus Tour. She received her MFA in poetry from the University of Washington and is a MacDowell Colony fellow. She currently lives in Seattle, Washington. Loren and Sierra continue to collaborate under the name Invisible Seeing Machine.
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