TrenchArt: Recon

Aesthetic Essays in Varied Form by Frances Richard, Doug Nufer, Myriam Moscona, Jen Hofer, Alex Forman, and Renee Petropoulos (with marginalia by Sianne Ngai and Veronica Gonzalez).

Materials: paper (varieties), wire
Front Cover: Letterpressed by Brian Teare
Back cover image by Renee Petropoulos
Introduction by Teresa Carmody
Binding: wire
ISBN: 978-1-934254-21-9
Pages: 83
Price: $60 [1 of 5 books in set; available by subscription membership only]

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Hand-bound in an edition of 230, TrenchArt: Recon introduces the sixth annual TrenchArt series, with aesthetics written by participating series writers and visual artist, Renee Petropoulos. “Recon” for reconnaissance, recognition, a preliminary survey to gain information, an exploratory military survey of enemy territory. The Recon series writers use appropriation, constraint, and generative processes to explore new possibilities for such literary stand-bys as lyric, plot or portrait. Together, these books provide an aerial view, a survey, of ways writers are approaching this question: what does one make in, and of, the brokenness.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Making In the Broken: An Introduction by Teresa Carmody
Mayfly by Frances Richard
Methodical Mad Science by Doug Nufer
Naturaleza del Poema (The Nature of the Poem) by Myriam Moscona
The Nature of Translation by Jen Hofer
From Mexico to Brazil to the United States by Renee Petropoulos, with marginalia by Sianne Ngai and Veronica Gonzalez
Ars Poetica by Alex Forman

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