Ariel He (2020)
By annotating Time by Etel Adnan, this book has come into my life in a way that is closer than a companion. Its layers make it whole. Through embroidery, writing, folding, ironing, crossing out and other small additions, it has become someone I trust. I am still surprised by some of her verses, but isn’t that like a friend? Can say anything and learn too.
Emily Frisch (2020)
Vero Bello Abrante (2020)
Julieta Beltran Lazo (2020)
Steve Kim (2020)
Meiching Chi (2020)
Vienna Gambol (2020)
Helena Miller (2020)
Tarelle Parker (2020)
Shuyuan Zhang (2020)
Yumo Wang (2020)
Teo Von Baeyer (2020)
Tony Zhang (2020)
My reading experience was broken at the beginning because Sesshu Foster intentionally created a “fragmental” quality in City of the Future. But later I noticed although the images might be saltatory in his poems, there are some beautiful rhythms in the lines. I started to try to capture my feelings by writing and drawing. When I cannot follow the poems in the most rational way I begin to imagine and draw about how I feel.
Yuanhao Liu (2020)
Christianna Choe (2020)
Jennie Peng (2020)
For my annotation on Dunce I decided to explore the theme of mortality through the medium of printmaking. The more prints you produce the less ink is transferred, the image eventually becomes a ghost of itself. Each print attempts to convey the mood/feelings provoked in each poem.
Hanna Suros (2020)
Ben Gerow (2020): Mary Ruefle, Dunce (Wave Books 2019)
Choose one of our assigned books to annotate, initiating a semester-long conversation with the book — in the margins, between the lines, in inserted leaves or cards, wherever interaction leads.
Ian Williams, Word Problems (Coach House Books 2021) https://chbooks.com/Books/W/Word-Problems
Brian Kim Stefans, Festivals of Patience: The Verse Poems of Arthur Rimbaud (Kenning Editions 2021)
https://www.kenningeditions.com/shop/festivals-of-patience-the-verse-poems-of-arthur-rimbaud/
Nehassaiu deGannes, Music for Exile (Tupelo Press 2021)
https://www.tupelopress.org/product/music-for-exile/
Shin Yu Pai, Virga (Empty Bowl 2021)
https://www.emptybowl.org/store/9g6h1h9prysw7iv443nj58bavca7nt
You may also use your 5th self-selected book .
Address the author, the content, your experience as reader, and other relevant contexts. You can use the conventional technologies of notation, marking, underlining, highlighting, illustration.
"Is tana an dubh" (the ink is thin), Codex Sangallensis 904 (9th century CE)
“Is acher in gaith innocht fufuasna faircae findfhol / ni ágor réimm mora minn dond laechrai lainn óa lothlind” (“Bitter is the wind tonight it tosses the ocean’s white hair / I do not fear the coursing of a clear sea by the fierce warriors from Norway”), Codex Sangallensis 904.
Jen Bervin, Nets (2004)
Ronald Johnson, Radi os (1977)
http://bostonreview.net/beachy-quick-the-speaking-ear-ronald-johnson-radi-os
Tom Phillips, A Humument (1966-- )
Although the emphasis on the assignment is on annotation using language, alteration is also a possibility.
Think about relationships between reader and author; between now and the point in time when the book was written, between handwriting and print, and exchanges and metamorphoses between reader and writer, past, present, and future. You are talking to the author but also disrupting or expanding authorship. Think about what makes sense in terms of the page and book and your investigation of both. What kinds of information do your additions or subtractions convey? What types of writing implements will you use? Is the book sacred? What are the differences between the page and screen? Is the discourse private or public? Your annotated books will be exhibited.
Meicheng Chi (2020)