Body of Text

by Michael V. Smith and David Ellingsen

Body of Text is a collection of concrete poems made by marrying poetry with body-based performance art and documentary photography. Dressed in a full black body-suit, Michael V. Smith is photographed by David Ellingsen in hundreds of poses which resemble Greco-Roman letters, Asian characters, hieroglyphs, or Rorschach inkblots. These are then arranged in book form, to a maximum of three images per page. In the same spirit of ?moving beyond language'...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1897388284
• ISBN13: 9781897388280
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Book*hug Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.5" x 6.8"