Poetry. "From insecticide to plastic heels, no one has explored the disturbing intimacies between persons and things that arise in a system of exploited labor with as much insight as Yedda Morrison. Addressed to a world in which everything is brutally functionalized, and in which `There is not, nor has there ever been a genderless sale,' her poetry unflinchingly confronts the violence behind the production of the sweet. One of the most original and aesthetically powerful books I have read in years"--Sianne Ngai. "From the actual valleys of Northern California to Installation Body-Machine Art, Morrison's writing is an overtly staged poetry; topicality is given the tight squeeze in order to counter a full re-absorption into `proper' field designations--journalism, art criticism, programmatic politics, etc. These poems don't just twizzle their `localities'--they converge on them to move them"--Rodrigo Toscano.

Crop

Literature & Fiction

Morrison, Yedda

Poetry

Kelsey Street Press

Poetry. "Yedda Morrison has produced an edition of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness in which only references to the natural world remain. But what counts as 'natural' is far from self-evident, and Morrison's erasures open onto a range of philosophical and ethical questions.... If the test of conceptual writing is the degree to which the distance between the concept and the execution creates enough friction to generate a spark across that gap, here, the ethereous space between the idea and the text—between mind and body, artifice and nature, erasure and source—ionizes with violent disruption and report."—Craig Dworkin

Darkness

Make Now Press

Poetry. "It is a rare book that makes us constantly ask how the author achieved such beauty, complexity, clarity. GIRL SCOUT NATION is one of those, its wide lines barreling across the landscape of the page, covering amazing swaths of time, myth, devastation, sensuality, in gorgeous pointed material utterances; or suddenly pulling the reader up in short musical stops, botanical lists, girl scout ditties, surveillance techniques. There is rage, here, the body where it meets the staggering earth, contained in the tiny catapulting figure of Scout, herself contained by the entire rage of the planet; and this rage is the more effective for being 'the deep glowing red inside the barrel,' for being nowhere and everywhere, for being a girl, 'just a girl there/daddy.' Both primal and urbane, GIRL SCOUT NATION is rich hard realism on its way to Disney upside down. After CROP Yedda Morrison has done it again: I love this book"--Gail Scott.

Girl Scout Nation

Literary

Displaced Press

COMPANION brings together four new projects by Bay Area artists and writers whose work includes multiple genres and mediums: Rebeca Bollinger, Sofía Córdova, Pam Martin, and Yedda Morrison. Designed by Companion Platform. COMPANION includes: The Arrangement by Yedda Morrison Through images and text, The Arrangement chronicles a day in the life of the Decorator as they unveil a major new project for an important client. Filled with crushing doubt, fueled by class shame and imposter syndrome, the Decorator battles ornate demons and an underdog sensibility to "get it right." Part memoire, part love-letter, part expose, The Arrangement ekes out visual, economic, and psychic transcendence in the hallowed interiors of the ruling elite. Both victim and arbiter of power predicated on taste, the Decorator is "never not reading the room;" over selling and over delivering, and failing, ultimately, to "make it upstairs." The Arrangement is a mood board of class anxiety and domestic desire, an upholstered and precarious portrait of objects and systems "in place." Dear Catalog of Stains (part one) by Rebeca Bollinger Dear Catalog of Stains includes stain stories, objects, props, incidents, recollections, a partial alphabet of porcelain tube socks, printed cork boards and hat pins, fingers, shorthand in pencil imperfectly transcribed, potatoes of all varieties including hollow, solid aluminum and instrumental, ceramics, flat, round, and sad, flannel nightgowns with eyelet trim, Jesus in an oval on a doorway looking up, an old shoe in glass, Greek goddess, the sound of stains, floral on floral on floral, some shadows and Shadow, flood lights, a Double Mirrored Donut Hole also known as portal to the universe, and more.(part one) is Part One. To be continued. Three Parts by Pam Martin An ongoing investigation and record of the process of conflation. Art historical interventions as scrap book maneuver.Three Parts asks the question "What do we do with our grief?" It investigates author Pam Martin's correspondence with artist Mike Kelley who committed suicide in 2012. Kelley's letters usually explored art related materials and Martin's own emotional turbulence. Kelley spoke about "the conflation of psychic reality and mass culture reality". Three Parts is interested in this conflation. It remains a constant dynamic and personal metabolism even though everything seems like a bleaker territory of sizing right now. Of revelation. Of skin scraping certitude along a stucco wall. Waiting for the blood to appear. Three Parts examines the author's own reactionary tendencies, inner voices, and self-control. Everything Must Go by Sofía Córdova Everything Must Go is a: 1. Set of instructions 2. A map 3. A pile of shit gathered from around and reconstituted here and which might help you re-perform a performance. Specifically the first act to be made in the unchronological performance series GUILLOTIN&#8710; WannaCry. (Though this book also contains notes for future performance, poems, songs, choreographies, conflicts, etc., in case you wish to incorporate them as you assemble your own thoughts about revolution). 4. An absurd proposal that moving absurdly, together is the only way out. Maybe. Poetry. Women's Studies. Art.

Companion

Martin, Pam

Córdova, Sofía

Bollinger, Rebeca

Arts & Photography

Krupskaya

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