Slot

By Jill Magi

Poetry. An experiential investigation of how we move through cultural landmarks and institutions, SLOT presents a lyrical and thinking response to official, landscaped memory. In the book, a person slips in and out of highly designed museums and memorials, looks for a mentor who is more than a tour guide, rebels during the official tour, and occasionally finds the lament she is looking for: in comparisons across history, in ambiguous photo sequences, and in poetry. The resulting text stages a quiet argument between the persistent urge to "slot" things--into narratives, frames, archives--and a clear view of what, by resisting, remains. "SLOT pulls us through a beautiful yet harrowing poetic journey through the sediment of memory that has come to be called 9/11. By confronting the shock and desperation of violence on that achingly gorgeous autumn day, Jill Magi finds the words and images to allow us to re-member fragments of emotion and national identity that the act of memorializing has made us forget"--Robin Kelley.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933254874
• ISBN13: 9781933254876
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Ugly Duckling Presse
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.5" x 5.8"