The World is a Womb with Oceans and Carcinogens
an excerpt from Bonnie Emerick’s Ventriloquy
Welcome to [RE:CON]CRETIONS! A new series of excerpts from our forthcoming and recent publications.
Today, OS collaborator Bonnie Emerick shares an excerpt from her new digital chapbook Ventriloquy, out now from The Operating System. Want more? Check out our interview with Emerick about her work.
About the Author
Bonnie Emerick’s poetry has been published in print and online magazines, including Cannibal, the tiny, How2, So To Speak, Quarter After Eight, Little Red Leaves, and Fogged Clarity, among others. Her digital chapbook, Ventriloquy, is forthcoming from The Operating System. She teaches secondary English in Telluride, Colorado.
ABOUT THE COVER ART:
The Operating System 2019 chapbooks, in both digital and print, feature art from Heidi Reszies. The work is from a series entitled “Collected Objects & the Dead Birds I Did Not Carry Home,” which are mixed media collages with encaustic on 8 x 8 wood panel, made in 2018. Heidi writes: “This series explores objects/fragments of material culture- -how objects occupy space, and my relationship to them or to their absence.”
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Heidi Reszies is a poet/transdisciplinary artist living in Richmond, Virginia. Her visual art is included in the National Museum of Women in the Arts CLARA Database of Women Artists. She teaches letterpress printing at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts, and is the creator/curator of Artifact Press. Her poetry collection titled Illusory Bordersis forthcoming from The Operating System in 2019, and now available for pre-order. Her collection titled Of Water & Other Soft Constructions was selected by Samiya Bashir as the winner of the Anhinga Press 2018 Robert Dana Prize for Poetry (forthcoming in 2019).
Find her at heidireszies.com
