Synopses & Reviews
Poetry. Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Women's Studies. Art. MUTTER-BABEL, a graphic and textual exploration of ugly archaic feelings and their troubling social effects. It is a verbo-visual experiment integrating handmade drawings with computer-designed texts, exploring very early feelings babies have for their mothers. Whether because many people cannot remember these (at least consciously), or because they do not consider such material interesting, infantile experience has rarely been the overt subject of poetry.
About the Author
Christine Wertheim is a poet, critic, performer and curator, who teaches at the California Institute of the Arts. Her books include MUTTER—BABEL (Counterpath Press, 2013), +|'ME'S-PACE (Les Figues Press, 2007), CORPUS (a chapbook from Triage), and the edited anthology FEMINAISSANCE (Les Figues Press, 2010). With Matias Viegener she organized an annual series of conferences on innovative writing from 2004-2010: Séance, Noulipo, Impunities, Feminaissance, Untitled, and Untilted NY. From these they edited the anthologies Séance (Make Now Press) and THE N/OULIPIAN ANALAECTS (Les Figues Press), a Bomb Magazine Editor's Choice for 2008. Her poetry has been anthologized in numerous collections including Against Expression, The and Now Awards: The Best Innovative Writing, and I'LL DROWN MY BOOK. She lectures and performs internationally, most recently at the Sorbonne, Birkbeck College, London, Melbourne University, and The Echo Park Film Center, LA.