BrickBrickBrick

By Mark Laliberte

BRICKBRICKBRICK is background reading brought to the forefront.

With this new collection, poet Mark Laliberte presents a series of visual meditations on the subject of " poetics." Like much of his recent output, this project hovers around--but never quite steps into--the cultural zone that pure, popular comics inhabit.

The hybrid "texts" presented in this volume (slowly developed from 2001-08), appropriate and invade the hand-made illustrative markings of different illustrators or cartoonists, as they draw bricks--usually in the backgrounds of city scenes. Each drawn source is pulled forward and stripped of all signs of their original narrative intent. In a process that is metaphorically connected to the careful manipulation of written words on a page, each work is digitally constructed--brick-by-brick--into new and distinct walls that the reader will likely enjoy hitting up against.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1897388578
• ISBN13: 9781897388570
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Book*hug Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.6" x 7.4"