Poetry of Unknown Worlds.
GEFN Press, 2017. Item #3836
7 x 9 x 2 1/4 in. "Caribbean Peach" acrylic slipcase, housing 21 folded sheets with a 32 pp. colophon booklet containing additional notes.
The colophon booklet describes the book as "a collaborative experiment, a feminizing response and consideration of Iliazd's Poésie de Mots Inconnus (1949) investigating connections between notation and movement, sound and text." Iliazd, an early radical typographer and Futurist avant garde participant, originally gathered 23 poets and 23 illustrators (of all participants, two were women) for Poésie de Mots Inconnus. In their re-imagining of this collaborative project, Meynell and Johanknecht refigure and respond to the work of 21 influential women, including H.D., Emily Hennings, Gertrude Stein, Valerie Solanas, Mary Wollstonecraft, Barbara Hepworth, Eileen Gray, Ethel Mary Charles, Lucie Rie, Harriet Hosmer, Constance Spry, Pamela Schwerdt and Sybille Kreutzberger, Maude Grieve, Beatrix Potter, Clara Peeters, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, Elizabeth Friedlander, Mary Somerville, Hanya Holm, and Janice Joplin.
For Johanknecht and Meynell, the "unknown" of the title references "the library, archive, and feminist notions" of what is "hidden through history." The book makes use of a variety of printing technologies on its unbound, unnumbered pages, including letterpress, inkjet, embossing, hand burnishing, collage, lino-cut, stitching, polymer plates, and pochoir.
The edition was created in London, and there are 20 numbered and signed copies, of which 10 are for sale to public institutions. As new. A densely-allusive and fascinating production.
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