Description:
In April 2018, Amaranth Borsuk began to approach artists, bookbinders, publishers, librarians, and scholars to inquire What is the/a book? This volume documents the responses and decenters the author's voice to draw attention to the many other formulations of what the book is and can be.
Brief description:
Amaranth Borsuk an Associate Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington, Bothell, where she also serves as Associate Director of the MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics. She is the author of The Book (MIT Press, 2018), a brief introduction to the book as object, content, idea, and interface.. Her volumes of poetry include Pomegranate Eater (Kore Press, 2016), Handiwork (Slope Editions, 2012), selected by Paul Hoover for the 2011 Slope Editions Poetry Prize; and Tonal Saw (The Song Cave, 2010), a chapbook-length erasure. Abra (1913 Press, 2016), a book of mutating poems created with Kate Durbin, received an NEA-sponsored Expanded Artists.