Category: Mini essay
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Shirin Salehi’s “Back From a Walk”
Born in Tehran in 1982, Shirin Salehi is a visual artist, educator, and translator. She regularly teaches classes and workshops at the Center for Book Arts in New York. Living between New York and Madrid, Salehi moves through her artistic practice in three languages: English, Spanish, and Persian. Salehi’s attention to language is evident in…
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Ulises Carrión’s SONNET(S)
The Mexican conceptual poet Ulises Carrión’s project SONNET(S) was recently published in a re-edition by Ugly Duckling Presse, accompanied by critical essays. Here is a text I wrote about Carrión’s poetics, from an essay that can be read here. Ulises Carrión and the Bookwork Born in the small tropical city of San Andrés Tuxtla, Veracruz,…
