Synopses & Reviews
Poetry. "In KYOTOLOGIC, Anne Gorrick takes Sei Shonagon's poetic diaries as materials for a new performance of eccentric intimacy. A book of days that is also a "model of interruptions," Gorrick's work admits us as voyeurs, offers us mysterious routines in lieu of identity, and includes history (albeit processual history). Trust that this book is written in silk, cherries, and "with a good pen," but don't expect orientalism or even orientation, as such. The logic of KYOTOLOGIC is a cold engagement with personhood mediated by a world of things"--Aaron McCollough.
Synopsis
Anne Gorrick's first collection is a remarkable reworking of themes from the ancient Japanese book, The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon. A densely beautiful book, young poems growing out of old poems, vines round an ancient pine. (Robert Kelly)
About the Author
Anne Gorrick's work has been published in many places including: American Letters and Commentary, Big Game Books, the Cortland Review, Dislocate, eratio, Fence, Gutcult, Hunger Magazine, No Tell Motel, Otoliths, the Seneca Review, Sulfur, and word for/word. Her work has appeared in several anthologies including: The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel, (No Tell Press, 2006), Homage to Vallejo (Greenhouse Review Press, 2006), and Riverine: An Anthology of Hudson Valley Writers (Codhill Press, 2007). Collaborating with artist Cynthia Winika, she produced a limited