Six Poems in Search of Their Book
By Russell Gardner, Jr. (Artist) & Marilyn Annucci (Poet),
Picket Fence Editions
Six Poems is a book that is also an art object. The picket handles are salvaged from Gardner's mother's fence. Other materials include fabric, flowers, poems by Annucci, and "Gardner cards": line drawings on heavy acid-free watercolor paper cut to small sizes. The book's components are unprotected by wax or varnish. We invite you to view a photo slide-show of the book, and listen to Annucci's poem, "Cosmography," one of six in this unusual & beautiful chap.
Click on buttons underneath the main image to start slide show or on thumbnails to view images as stills.
Click button above for audio of Annucci reading "Cosmography."
Marilyn Annucci is the author of Luck (Parallel Press). See Umbrella Journal and Tupelo Press’s April Poetry Project for recent poems. Marilyn came to Wisconsin from Boston for a summer in 1988 (that “summer” lasted five years), and she returned in 1997. She is an associate professor at the UW-Whitewater.
Russell Gardner, Jr. grew up on a central WI farm, lived in many states as an adult, and is back in Wisconsin. Writing poetry (and prose) since college, he also does mixed media visual art and helped originate and then coordinate the Epidemic Peace Imagery project featured in Free Verse #99/100.
Photos of Six Poems in Search of Their Book by Don Sylvester.