After you, dearest language ...
MARISOL LIMON MARTINEZ
UDP 2006

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108 pages, perfect-bound
ISBN: 1-933254-13-0
distributed by SPD
$12


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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.

Marisol Limon Martinez is a visual artist. She lives in New York.

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"...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

  

REVIEWS:
—Rain Taxi Review of Books
by Joyelle McSweeney
(Summer 2006 print edition)

 

OTHER LINKS:
—author Web site:
mlimonmartinez.com

 

EXCERPT:

BRETON, ANDRE My name is NADJA. I am Breton's WIFE. We live in a two story HOUSE wit WINDOWS and SHUTTERS. Someone is making THEATRE out of my life. I watch the REHEARSALS take place in a BOX PUPPET theatre. My BODY parts are connected by STRINGS tied to little HOLES. When I watch the various SCENES, I turn into PAPER. My LEGS and ARMS in the theatre box are the only parts to be seen.