1000 Views of 'Girl Singing' reviewed

At the end of David Hart's not-too thrilled review of Abdellatif Laâbi's Fragments Of A Forgotten Genesis in the Feb 010 issue of Stride Magazine, we find the following good news:

When I received [the Laâbi] in the post, I saw at its endpaper an advertisement for Leafe Press's 1,000 Views of "Girl Singing", edited by John Bloomberg-Rissman, which caught my imagination strongly enough for me to send a cheque for it. It was money very well spent, it's a unique book, if in uneasily small print, of many invited responses, by way of poetry or visually, to a poem by Eileen Tabios.

It has led me to speculate about early modern, say 15th-16th centuries or earlier, whether there were, along with circulation of poems by hand, also response-poems and perhaps drawings: exchanges and additions verbally and visually. The book implements a fertile present and suggests a future for such intermingled new work. A delight.

Not bad, folks.

Comments

[Bob]

"uneasily small print"? Thank god I'm no whimpering Johnny Keats...