Description: Continuous Frieze Bordering [Red] documents the migratory patterns of an Other as she travels between countries, languages, and shades of Rothko's red. A narrative on hybridity, the text navigates the instability of cultural border identities and functions as an ekphrasis of Rothko's bricked-in, water-damaged windows in his Seagram murals.
Brief description: Born in Japan, Michelle Naka Pierce is Associate Professor of Writing & Poetics and Director of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. Among her most recent publications are She: A Blueprint and Beloved Integer. Her work has appeared in journals such as American Letters & Commentary, Trickhouse, Mandorla, Rain Taxi, and Teachers and Writers.
Review Quotes: Continuous Frieze Bordering Red is a tour de force. It is inviting, exciting, immediately accessible and so elegantly turned that it's inevitable, like an equation that generates infinite possibilities in a just-discovered universe.-- "--Drunken Boat"