About the Author\nAstrid Lorange is a writer, editor and teacher from Sydney. She lectures at University of New South Wales Art & Design. She is one half of the critical art collective Snack Syndicate. Her research looks at social infrastructure and networks of care/struggle. How Reading is Written: A Brief Index to Gertrude Stein was published by Wesleyan University Press in 2014. Poetry books include LABOUR AND OTHER POEMS (Cordite Books, 2020), PATHETIC TOWER (Make Now Press, 2014), EATING AND SPEAKING (Tea Party Republicans Press, 2011), Minor Dogs and FOOD TURNS INTO BLOOD.\nPoetry. Literary Nonfiction. "We find ourselves in love or out of it; in a friendship but with an enemy; under contract; inscribed by the law; giving birth; accompanied by ghosts; making pacts; in pursuit of a lost object; oriented towards new and unknown attachments. We find ourselves in a relation, even when that relation is broken or non-reciprocal. This book is about relations and their ambiguous intimacies. The three poems approach the question of how to endure, survive, destroy or protect the relationships that both constrain and make life possible. I wrote these poems while reading the work of Andrew Brooks, Brandon Brown, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Silvia Federici, Elena Gomez, Stefano Harney, Saidiya Hartman, C?L?R James, Fred Moten, Jordy Rosenberg, Hortense Spillers, Wendy Trevino and Frank Wilderson III. The three poems that comprise this book are in debt to these thinkers and should be read as marginal notes to their ideas. One way to perceive relations is to study them intently and to construct a poetics in their shadow."--Astrid Lorange

Labour and Other Poems

Literature & Fiction

Lorange, Astrid

Poetry

Cordite Books

How Reading Is Written: A Brief Index to Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein is a seminal figure in modern and postmodern literature, yet her work is not easily defined and has had both fierce supporters and equally fierce detractors. In a series of linked essays, How Reading Is Written considers a set of questions associated with reading Gertrude Stein today. In particular, how can we read a body of work that is largely resistant to conventional and interpretation-based models of literary criticism? The book is structurally and conceptually an index to Stein's poetics, and it considers Stein alongside other writers and thinkers, and across discourses of philosophy, science, queer theory, and literary criticism. Like Charles Olson's Call Me Ishmael and Susan Howe's My Emily Dickinson, How Reading Is Written joins a tradition of books by poets about the writers who have intensely figured into their conception of poetry. Astrid Lorange recovers previously overlooked critical work on Stein and aims to construct a new intellectual episteme for Stein's work―one that connects with contemporary contexts as well as repositions Stein in her moment of transnational modernism.

History & Criticism

Wesleyan University Press

Gertrude Stein is a seminal figure in modern and postmodern literature, yet her work is not easily defined and has had both fierce supporters and equally fierce detractors. In a series of linked essays, How Reading Is Written considers a set of questions associated with reading Gertrude Stein today. In particular, how can we read a body of work that is largely resistant to conventional and interpretation-based models of literary criticism? The book is structurally and conceptually an index to Stein's poetics, and it considers Stein alongside other writers and thinkers, and across discourses of philosophy, science, queer theory, and literary criticism. Like Charles Olson's Call Me Ishmael and Susan Howe's My Emily Dickinson, How Reading Is Written joins a tradition of books by poets about the writers who have intensely figured into their conception of poetry. Astrid Lorange recovers previously overlooked critical work on Stein and aims to construct a new intellectual episteme for Stein's work--one that connects with contemporary contexts as well as repositions Stein in her moment of transnational modernism.

Wesleyan

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Labour and Other Poems

How Reading Is Written: A Brief Index to Gertrude Stein

How Reading Is Written: A Brief Index to Gertrude Stein

How Reading Is Written: A Brief Index to Gertrude Stein