Theorem
Theorem
Elizabeth Bradfield, author
Antonia Contro, artist
In Theorem, a collaboration by poet Elizabeth Bradfield and artist Antonia Contro, spare images, distilled text, and the resonant space between investigate the legacy of secrets acquired in childhood and held through a life. Part visual interrogation of shapes and forms, part lyrical bewilderment at the interface of memory and geometry, Theorem charts a luminous path of self-discovery that unsettles and upends. Theorem's collaboration opens possibilities beyond the simple life-changing epiphany. As John Yau writes, "The revelation is not in arriving at a destination but in beginning to map the journey, as well as in recognizing that one's perspective of past events changes as time goes by. This is the enigma of being alive and alert. This is what Theorem offers the willing reader---a place to return to in order to set out again and see what has changed." Using tropes drawn from math and science in both text and images, Theorem grapples again and again with how to find certainty and clarity within the chaos of lived experience.
Author: Elizabeth Bradfield
Publisher: Poetry Northwest Editions
Published: 11/01/2020
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 8.00h x 8.00w x 0.25d
ISBN: 9781949166026
About the Author
Bradfield, Elizabeth: - ELIZABETH BRADFIELD is the author of the poetry collections Once Removed, Approaching Ice, Interpretive Work and the mixed-genre Toward Antarctica, which pairs her photographs with brief, hybrid essays. Her poems and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, West Branch, Orion and many anthologies. She has been awarded a Stegner Fellowship, the Audre Lorde Prize, and was a finalist for the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. Founder and editor-in-chief of Broadsided Press, she works as a naturalist locally as well as on expedition ships in the high latitudes and teaches creative writing at Brandeis University. www.ebradfield.comContro, Antonia: - ANTONIA CONTRO is a multimedia artist whose work ranges from discrete objects to site-specific installations and concept-based collaborations that engage artists and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines. Her art explores the nature of knowledge, memory, and time. Contro's exhibitions include Tempus Fugit at the American Philosophical Society Museum, Ex Libris at the Chicago Cultural Center, Closed/Open at the Newberry Library, and Descry at the Museum of Contemporary Photography. Contro's work is in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Block Museum, the Fogg Art Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art, and others. Contro was awarded a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship, an Illinois Arts Council fellowship, and a doctorate in humanities honoris causa from Lewis University. www.antoniacontro.com