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Marisol Limón Martínez: After You, Dearest Language
Published 2005
OUT OF PRINT
Full-length | $12
Perfect-bound. 108 pp, 5.75 x 8 in.
ISBN 978-1-933254-13-5
Distribution: SPD
After You, Dearest Language is an alphabetical index and linguistic navigation of symbols and their meanings. Conceived as a sort of hypertext in book form, it connects the visual and the verbal through personal narratives of real, surreal, urban, hyper-urban and bucolic spaces.
"…Martinez's book works as both a dream index and an index of dreams. Martinez converts the associative impulse of the Surrealists to a literal cross-reference, a gesture which is also this book's unique contribution to the abecedarian trend…" —JOYELLE MCSWEENEY, Rain Taxi, Summer 2006
"This linguistic navigation, much like Barthes by Barthes and Jean-Paul Sartre’s The Words, articulates one’s (often inarticulate, and yes, mysterious) interior and its relationship to exteriority." —CLAUDIA MILIAN
"A subtle and beautifully-crafted exploration of a personal language… but clothed in song, clothed in the visionary power of poetry. Language as a method against evil … " —GUILLERMO JUAN PARRA
NEWS AND REVIEWS
Marisol Limón Martínez is a visual artist and musician. She lives in New York.
