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Beautiful mutants, vagabond scuba divers, lovers with disordered
gorilla hearts: These poetry comics place the lyric and the
grotesque, the elegant and the despondent, side by side in one
emotionally intense panel after another. At the vanguard of a
movement that embraces our increasingly visual culture and believes
poetry has an essential place therein, Bianca Stone redefines how
we think about poetry, what we expect from comics, and how we
interpret our own lives. Although reminiscent of illuminations by
William Blake, Thomas Phillips's A Humument, and more recent
visual-poetic hybrids by Mary Ruefle and Matthea Harvey, Stone's
comics feature a mixture of dreamy expression and absurdist wit
that is entirely her own. Her watercolour panels are filled with
anthropomorphic horses and baffled ballerinas that guide the reader
through the poet's graphic dreamscape: ""I was moving like a
monsoon through a forest. I was thinking about where I saw myself
in two thousand years... And where I saw myself was a tiny subspace
ripple sliding through the corridors with a plastic horse in my
hand."" This book, its own small universe, erases genre
distinctions between the visual and the literary, and offers
readers a poetic vision of artistic possibilities.
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