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Thalia Field is the author of three books with New Directions (Point and Line, 2000; Incarnate: Story Material, 2004; and Bird Lovers, Backyard, 2010). She also published numerous journals, most recently Conjuctions, Tin House, Seneca Review, and Angelaki (Journal of the Theoretical Humanities.) Thalia teaches in the Literary Arts department of Brown University.<\/p>\n
Abigail Lang is the author of Le monde compte rendu. Lectures de Louis Zukofsky (ENS editions, forthcoming) and the co-editor of Double Change, A Film Archive of Poetry, 1 and 2 (Motion Method Memory \/ Presses du reel, 2009). A translator of American poetry into French, she teaches at the University of Paris-Diderot.<\/p>\n
A convoy, a motley, a mob of \u201cmachines.\u201d Machines? By George! Gertrude Stein cranks the motor, and we\u2019re off to the carnival, the roller-coaster ride across genres, languages, typefaces \u2013 and names. American names especially, where Wilson may come from Witkiewicz and Castle from Katzenellenbogen. It\u2019s dazzling. It\u2019s a riot. It self-deconstructs, but it won\u2019t disappoint you.<\/em>
\n-Rosmarie Waldrop<\/p>\nIn A Prank of Georges, Abigail Lang & Thalia Field create a dazzling set of variations in, about, and around lines from Gertrude Stein. Stein\u2019s lines become threads with which Lang & Field weave a text heterolingual and ludic, in which the play of names becomes a matter of meaning\u2019s performing. The question here is not \u201cwhat the poem says,\u201d but how it keeps on keeps on saying.<\/em>
\n-Charles Bernstein<\/p>\nFor William Carlos Williams a poem is a small or large machine made out of words. Thalia Field and Abigail Lang have taken this proposition seriously, yet playfully. Their luminous pas de deux ludically conjures Gertrude Stein to construct a textual game that leaps linguistic and cultural rifts to find the commonalities of \u201cvarious chain.\u201d Together these poets return us to the primal force of language: naming.<\/em>
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