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Continuous Frieze Bordering Red
Michelle Naka Pierce
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Description for Continuous Frieze Bordering Red
Paperback. Continuous Frieze Bordering Red documents the migratory patterns of an Other as she travels between countries, languages, and shades of Rothko's red. A narrative on hybridity, the text navigates the instability of cultural border identities and functions as an ekphrasis of Rothko's bricked-in, water-damaged windows in his Seagram murals. Series: Poets Out Loud. Num Pages: 78 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5193 x 5193 x 8. Weight in Grams: 213.
Continuous Frieze Bordering Red documents the migratory patterns of an Other, as she travels between countries, languages, seasons, and shifting identities. A narrative on hybridity, the text explores [dis]location as a cultural swerve while it interrogates Rothko’s red: his bricked-in, water-damaged windows [floating borders], which reflect unstable cultural borders to the hybrid. A person of mixed race [hybrid, mongrel, mutt] traverses these “invisible” cultural borders repeatedly. Border identity comes with flux, instability, and vibrational pulls. An Other is marked as someone who does not belong. She is always a foreigner: when traveling and when at “home.” She is cast aside, ... Read more
Continuous Frieze Bordering Red documents the migratory patterns of an Other, as she travels between countries, languages, seasons, and shifting identities. A narrative on hybridity, the text explores [dis]location as a cultural swerve while it interrogates Rothko’s red: his bricked-in, water-damaged windows [floating borders], which reflect unstable cultural borders to the hybrid. A person of mixed race [hybrid, mongrel, mutt] traverses these “invisible” cultural borders repeatedly. Border identity comes with flux, instability, and vibrational pulls. An Other is marked as someone who does not belong. She is always a foreigner: when traveling and when at “home.” She is cast aside, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
78
Condition
New
Series
Poets Out Loud
Number of Pages
78
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823243051
SKU
V9780823243051
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About Michelle Naka Pierce
Born in Japan, Michelle Naka Pierce is Associate Professor of Writing & Poetics and Director of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. Among her most recent publications are She: A Blueprint and Beloved Integer. Her work has appeared in journals such as American Letters & Commentary, Trickhouse, Mandorla, Rain Taxi, and Teachers and Writers.
Reviews for Continuous Frieze Bordering Red
" ... An absolute joy to keep turning the pages, to stay in motion with Pierce, to be always already moving/across." -Asian American Poetry Unbound "Continuous Frieze Bordering Red is a tour de force. It is inviting, exciting, immediately accessible and so elegantly turned that it's inevitable, like an equation that generates infinite possibilities in a just-discovered universe." -Drunken Boat ... Read more