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How to Read and Write in the Dark

An illustrated narrative of an intimate relationship. “This novel poem, short story, essay, work of history, record of days in August 1994, was composed from splinters of travel and museum guides, postcards, passing remarks, journal entries, fantasies, reflection and analysis. A composite of tiny speech genres, illustrating a disruption of scientistic knowledge by the sensual and physical.”

This limited edition livre d’artiste(s) presents Barbara Henning’s sharp, analytic and ruminative prose pieces — “a composition of tiny speech genres” — interleaved with artist Miranda Maher’s drawings (presented in color photocopy) of gridworks & lines seemingly representing maps tracing the communicatie paths of sleep, sex and dream — “a disruption of scientistic knowledge by the sensual and physical.
—Small Press Distribution Catalog, Spring/Summer 1997.