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Decomp
Collis, Stephen; Scott, Jordan
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Description for Decomp
paperback. Origin of the Species left in five ecosystems for a year: a gorgeous photographic and poetic document of Nature's force. Num Pages: 144 pages, 50 color photos. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 229 x 11. Weight in Grams: 242.
Poets Stephen Collis and Jordan Scott left copies of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species to decay in five distinct ecosystems in British Columbia. A year later, they photographed what remained, reading poetry into nature's "rewriting" process and documenting the gorgeous detritus in Decomp, a long poem in prose and color photographs. Darwin is an eye amidst graphed genera seeing the web it is woven thereof. A matted scrap of printed material, shit, soil and leaf rot--all dried, bleached and curled up at small edges. Stephen Collis is the author of four books of poetry and ... Read more
Poets Stephen Collis and Jordan Scott left copies of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species to decay in five distinct ecosystems in British Columbia. A year later, they photographed what remained, reading poetry into nature's "rewriting" process and documenting the gorgeous detritus in Decomp, a long poem in prose and color photographs. Darwin is an eye amidst graphed genera seeing the web it is woven thereof. A matted scrap of printed material, shit, soil and leaf rot--all dried, bleached and curled up at small edges. Stephen Collis is the author of four books of poetry and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Coach House Books Canada
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781552452820
SKU
V9781552452820
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Ref
99-15
About Collis, Stephen; Scott, Jordan
Stephen Collis is an award-winning poet, activist and professor of contemporary literature at Simon Fraser University. His poetry books include Anarchive, The Commons, On the Material (awarded the BC Book Prize for Poetry) and the forthcoming To the Barricades. He lives in Vancouver, BC. Jordan Scott is the author of Silt, which was nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry ... Read more
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