the seaweed sd treble clef

Endi Bogue Hartigan


POETRY / PHOTOGRAPHY
Edition of 75
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This 12 poem sequence written from 12 photographs taken during 2018 is a tactile, incantatory give-and-take between coalescing and unravelling encounters, the washing in and out of natural forms and stark, tangled public realities. The language invoked by these washed up splays of seaweed is taut with physicality and slipping compounds—kelpnodule middledrink, empirelogic, and botanical swarms—investigating what is action and what is utterance.

DETAILS
May 2021
Printed full color and bound in letterpress printed wraps. Includes a four-panel gatefold.
16 pp. 8.75 x 8.5 in.

EXCERPT

seaweed-sd-1.jpg

instruments of action & inaction
collide 
not action treblefiction not action
flailposition not action nationsickness
meredonation moving object
to object rearranged costdepletion
gallop loss overrhetorical 


earthfollicle that’s not
what it saidatall it sd
brontosaurus back slopmap
drop heaven

you were not really

reading in tht gloss.

Endi Bogue Hartigan is the author of two other books of poetry, Pool [5 choruses] (Omnidawn Publishing, 2014), and One Sun Storm (Center for Literary Publishing, CSU, 2008). Her third full length book oh orchid o’clock is forthcoming from Omnidawn Publishing in 2023.