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Attendance
Contributor(s): Carlos, Rocío (Author), McLeod Kaminer, Rachel (Author)

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ISBN: 1946031321     ISBN-13: 9781946031327
Publisher: Operating System
OUR PRICE: $20.90  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: November 2018
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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
 
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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."
--Natashia Deón, author of Grace

"I expected to be moved by this collaborative work from Rachel McLeod Kaminer and Rocío Carlos--they are two distinct and beautiful poets after all. But what I didn't expect from Attendance is the way it brought the life around me to life. How the birds and the trees and the landscape began to move in ways I hadn't noticed before, how my skin began to feel enveloped by the details of the day. Great art has always made me know that I belonged in the world, that I wasn't wandering through it alone. And Attendance, as much as any recent book, has reminded me of this truth."
--Chiwan Choi, author of The Yellow House

"what can we actually unlearn? capitalism is cellular where birdsound is molecular? shall we abandon the impulse to overtake? shall we slough of layers of administration to expose the medular hollow? where might we rest our heads?"
--jen hofer, from 'an after attendance'

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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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