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hiStoRymeMoRymeAndErOde - Kevin McFadden
Mohawk superfine, Letterpress and photopolymer plate
“This work (sometimes pronounced: ‘hiStoRy meMoRy meAndEr Ode’) is a fourteen-line poem that uses a ‘meander map’ trope—made famous by time-plotted, curling courses of the Mississippi River—situated as one speaker’s slow erosion of boundaries in a romantic relationship. The initial sentiment is altered one word at a time to mark passage between ‘the lengths you went to tell stories’ and ‘the way I chose to remember this.’ Perspectives bend. Words turn on each other and themselves. Color variations for each streamed consciousness are reflected in a legendary scheme that signals layers to be discovered in the underprinting.”
