Creator
Warren Lehrer and Adeena Karasick
Title
Ouvert Oeuvre: Openings & Touching in the Wake of The Virus
Coverage
New Orleans, LA
Publisher
Lavender Ink
Date
2023
Subject
Offset printed, hardbound with cloth and paper on boards printed by hand with metallic foils. Poems by Adeena Karasick visualized by Warren Lehrer. Book has a QR code linking to Karasick recording with music by Sir Frank London.
Description
This is a graphic text collaboration by poet and theorist Karasik and artist, designer, and writer Lehrer, who has created several iconic artists’ books. Lehrer visualizes Karasik’s words on each page, each with its own poem. Reflecting Walt Whitman’s work, Lehrer writes: “Whitman and Karasick both write from an ecstatic tradition and rapturous embrace of the world, which includes the light and the shadow … the sensuous and the transcendent, … characters, nature, things, culture, America.” Email from Warren Lehrer, August 3, 2023.
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