{"product_id":"colorways","title":"Colorways","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith lush neo-concrete poems positioned beside ghostly free-verse texts, Andrew Brenza's \u003cem\u003eColorways\u003c\/em\u003e offers multi-vectored and overexposed surfaces that complicate the notion of the person in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSelected for the innovative \u003cstrong\u003eAnhinga Press Visual Poetry Series\u003c\/strong\u003e, Brenza's \u003cem\u003eColorways\u003c\/em\u003e is a serial poem of alternating visual and verbal pieces that confronts the problem of emotive expression in an age where everything worth saying may have already been said. Thus, \u003cem\u003eColorways\u003c\/em\u003e poses an implied argument with the stultifying world that surrounds it, and offers readers a space to explore meaning freely, a space to be free, to participate with this artist-poet in multiplicities of interpretation and a shattering of the conventions of reading.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAndrew Brenza\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of numerous books of experimental writing, including the hybrid novel \u003cem\u003eWRYTHM\u003c\/em\u003e (Montag, 2022) and the visual poetry collection \u003cem\u003eSmear\u003c\/em\u003e (BlazeVOX, 2021). His latest collection, \u003cem\u003epod\u003c\/em\u003e, a book of channeled visual poems was recently released by Ghosttruth, an imprint of Montag Press. Andrew also is the founder and editor of Sigilist Press, a micropress devoted to the publication of visual poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Pattern is essential to poetry. Repetition, variation, rhyme, stress and emphasis are all features we associate with the sound structure of poetic composition. In\u003cem\u003e Colorways\u003c\/em\u003e, Andrew Brenza's new collection, the visuals are where these effects happen. The texts of the work are light, open, suggestive, and spacious — but the overprinted fields of letterforms and lines shimmer and vibrate with dynamic energy. Brenza orchestrates the visual components to a symphonic pitch that complements the verbal texts, giving them resonance and graphic assonance. Luscious, sensual, and exciting, these are vibrant typo-poieticworks.\" -\u003cstrong\u003e Johanna Drucker\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Andrew Brenza's \u003cem\u003eColorways\u003c\/em\u003e offers a Neptunian abyss. Each page of embroidered typography is a textual pool to either stare into, like Narcissus, or plummet into, like Icarus. The sunlight flickers off the rolling surf, seducing us to lean in, move closer, tumble.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eDerek Beaulieu\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Vibrating with visuals, Brenza's text is ghostly yet alive. A spectral voice traverses and transcends imagery and text as 'The Brain-has Corridors surpassing Material Place-'\" - \u003cstrong\u003eErica Baum\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Itasca Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54526365270291,"sku":"9781934695852","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0948\/3521\/2563\/files\/9781934695852ita.jpg?v=1785851766","url":"https:\/\/danuc.net\/products\/colorways","provider":"Danu's Wardrobe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}