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...the fragments are then so many stones on the perimeter of a circle: I spread myself around: my whole little universe in crumbs; at the center, what?
— Roland Barthes

“Bewilderment as a poetics and an ethics”

— Fanny Howe

“A language is a grand collaboration, a collective art form”

— Marilynne Robinson

“Language is a skin; I rub my language against the other”

— Roland Barthes

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Jennifer S. Cheng Jennifer S. Cheng

HOUSE A reflections: readings, reviews, interviews

I don’t know what it means that I am posting a reflection about my first book publication after the launch of my second book. My enneagram is Type 4, and one of the descriptions says that I tend to linger in “preparing” mode because I never feel ready.

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Jennifer S. Cheng Jennifer S. Cheng

2018 & Belated Updates

I spent this winter thinking back on the troubling year–the constant shroud of anxiety and my unhealthy defense mechanisms. I want this next year to be a turn: to reclaim my daily rhythms and textures, my internal and external motionings.

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Jennifer S. Cheng Jennifer S. Cheng

My Second Book!!!!!

It came faster than anticipated, but Bhanu Kapil chose my manuscript MOON: LETTERS, MAPS, POEMS as winner of the 2017 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize, and I am all moon/waves/more!

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CHLOE BENSAHEL, “Text”

YAMAMOTO Masao

Leslie Hewitt

Sean McFarland, from “Glass Mountain”

Susan Hiller, “Ten Months”

Tai Xiangzhou 泰祥洲, The No.1 of Big Dipper, 2014

TAI XIANGZHOU, Tai Hu Scholar’s Rock at Tsinghua, 2012

Lenore Tawney, “Region of Fire” 

Lygia Clark, “Sensorial Book” (1966), from her series “Nostalgia of the Body”

Florence Temko, “Paper: Folded, Cut, Sculpted”

Francesca Capone, “process from poem to woven”

Eben Goff, “coast / pole 4″

Marcus Buck, “photography of architectural remains”

Gail Baxter

LEA ASJA PAGENKEMPER, Typodrawing yes-no, 2013

Fan Ho, “Approaching Shadow,” 1954.

Ivy Ma, “Room of Memories” (2001)

Ikko Narahara, “Hibiya” from “Tokyo the ‘50s”

Christine Sun Kim, “How to Measure Loudness”

Christine Sun Kim, Feedback Aftermath, 2012Install Theme

Elena Damiani, “Strata Tav. III”

Ruth Asawa

Susan Hiller, Fragments 1976-1978.

Abi McLean, Tape’ (Drawing Study), 2014

Gary Edward Blum

John Gossage, from “Who Do You Love”

Vivian Maier, January 31, 1963. Hull House, Chicago, IL.

Ikko Narahara

Lenore Tawney, from Craft Horizons (Mar/Apr 1963)

Josef Albers, “Untitled (for Never Before, h,c,f,d)”

Betheljohn, “Tissue”