Nets

by Jen Bervin

Book Overview

Poetry. "Jen Bervin has reimagined Shakespeare as our true contemporary. Her little poems sing"--Paul Auster. In NETS, poet and artist Jen Bervin strips Shakespeare's sonnets "bare to the nets," chiseling away at the familiar lines to reveal surprising new poems, while pointing obliquely at the unavoidably intertextual ground of writing. Using visual compositional strategies as effectively as verbal ones, Bervin allows the discarded text to remain...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0972768432
• ISBN13: 9780972768436
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Ugly Duckling Presse
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 6.4"