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Scatter Matrix
Scatter Matrix

Scatter Matrix

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POETRY

78 Pages, 6 x 9

Formats: Trade Paper

Trade Paper, $20.00 (US $20.00) (CA $27.00)

Publication Date: January 1996

ISBN 9780937804636

Rights: WOR

Roof Books (Jan 1996)

Price: $20.00
 
 

Overview

Abigail Child's Scatter Matrix experiments with language as her films play with image. Alien constructions of words are built from familiar phrases. Psychology presents as a grid of possibilities rather than an emotional tangle. Readers are pulled into the poetry by what they know and then shown how these common ways of speaking and writing are composed out of surprising possibilities.

Author Biography

Abigail Child has been at the forefront of experimental writing and media since the 1980s, having completed more than thirty film/video works & installations, and written 6 books. Her books and numerous chapbooks include: This is Called Moving: A Critical Poetics of Film the only critical book written by an active American artist/filmmaker in over two decades. Her book of poetry Mouth to Mouth won a Lambda Prize. Child is Emeritus Professor of Media at Tufts University, the SMFA, and lives and works in New York City.