Attendance Contributor(s): Carlos, Rocío (Author), McLeod Kaminer, Rachel (Author) |
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ISBN: 1946031321 ISBN-13: 9781946031327 Publisher: Operating System
Binding Type: Paperback Published: November 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Nature - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Places - Literary Collections |
Dewey: 811.6 |
LCCN: 2018948545 |
Physical Information: 0.46" H x 6.69" W x 9.61" L (0.79 lbs) 218 pages |
Themes: - Sex & Gender - Gay |
Features: Illustrated |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: "Attendance is a meditation, an ushering-in of the kind of mindfulness that life deserves. One that leaves readers like me nodding and saying yes to lines like these: 'Just try to want different things' and 'You can do anything you want with me as long as you do it slowly first.' Carlos and Kaminer are power, and this book is plain gorgeous." --------------------- Reading Attendance trains your attention on plants and animals until you can't stop noticing them. It's a way of moving through the natural world--which turns out to include the whole world. An almanac, a logbook, a devotional, a witness statement, poetry. A documentary not in the sense of capturing but in the sense of being a creature paying attention to the world we already live in. It's a hybrid text: One year of two people reaching their arms across styles and genres. At times notes, at times lists, or run-on sentences, or poems, or things that want to be poems, but always plants, and always animals. The words are offered up with no correction or with the revision exposed. This is writing that includes where it comes from or writing that painfully doesn't become. We hold so many questions about love and attention and violence. |
Contributor Bio(s): Carlos, Rocio: - ROCÍO CARLOS is the author of (the other house), forthcoming from Civil Coping Mechanisms in 2019. She is also the author of Coyolxhauqui, Los Angeles (Archetype Press, 2012), A World Below (Mindmade Books, 2014), and co-author of ex*her*pt (wirecutter collective, 2016). She was selected as a 2003 Pen Center "Emerging Voices" fellow. She has infamous cats. |
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