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Rowan Evans - 

ODE RHIZOME MOUNTAIN SONG

ISBN 978-1-804248-03-4

24 pp; risograph printing; top-bound hand stitching


on way
null song 
mapping 
green ripples ripples
dark into the 

quotient mountain
firewood 
unknown who


A sequence of concrete poems and black and white collages of image and found text, ODE RHIZOME MOUNTAIN SONG responds to the mechanism of the typewriter and its invitation to horizontal and vertical reading. As these visual paths shadow the columns of Chinese ideograms, the text enters into direct and oblique dialogue with the 8th Century Wangchuan Ji  (‘Wheel River Sequence’) of Wang Wei. Finding an origin among mountain flowers, this poetics follows the spatial logic of the rhizome, ‘a continuously growing horizontal underground stem that puts out lateral shoots’. A poem and artist’s book of lyric orientation. 


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