Stochastic Poetics

Johanna Drucker

Stochastic Poetics

Granary Books and Druckwerk,

2012

Stochastic systems, including weather and waves, are non-linear and adaptive. Using this concept, Drucker composed this book at the type case, modifying within the composing stick. Each sheet went through the press numerous times over the two-year period it took to create this book, and no two copies are alike. Of the work, Drucker writes: “Stochastic Poetics has a single question at its core: How does the figure of poetic language emerge from the general field of language?”  

From the Collection of Steve Clay at Granary Books.