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Marisol Limón Martínez: After you, dearest language
Published 2005
After you, dearest language

| $16 ($14 direct from UDP)
Perfect-bound. 104 pp, 5.75 x 8 in.
ISBN 978-1-933254-13-5
Distribution: SPD

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New Printing 2010
 
Conceived as a sort of hypertext in book form, After You, Dearest Language is an alphabetical index of the author's dreams and visions. 
 
"…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

08.11.10 | Interview with Jen Bervin and Nancy Kuhl on the Poetry Foundation website

08.31.07 | After You, Dearest Language by Marisol Limon Martinez is reviewed in Galatea Resurrects

06.01.06 | Joyelle Mcsweeney reviews Marisol Limon Martinez’ After You, Dearest Language in Rain Taxi [print only]

Marisol Limón Martínez

Marisol Limón Martínez is a visual artist and musician from San Antonio, Texas. She has been the recipient of The Pollock Krasner grant, a National Endowment of the Arts grant for an artist's book residency at The Women's Studio Workshop, and a Ford Foundation grant in performing arts. Her books include After you, dearest language (Ugly Duckling Presse) and First Space, Then Structures (Nothing Moments Press). Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Yale University, and the University of Texas at Austin, amongst others. As a pianist and back-up vocalist, she has toured internationally with Scott Matthew. She is now working on a solo music project and an illustrated novel. Marisol lives in New York City.