I have never been able to sing
By: Alexis Almeida
Publisher: Ugly Duckling Presse
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Brooklyn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 18
Subjects: American Prose poems; Chapbooks; Specimens
Description: "An experiment in creating an autobiography's negative, I Have Never Been Able to Sing draws inspiration from the discursive, non-linear sentences of Rosmarie Waldrop's The Reproduction of Profiles and Édouard Levé's Autoportrait, as well as from the intricate curvature of Leon Ferrari's heliographic drawings and Leslie Hewitt's multi-layered photographs. Unfolding through a series of discrete moments and overlapping fragments, the poem explores the unstable ground of dichotomy, the constant slippage between past and present, real and imagined selves."--Publisher's website.
Notes: "Design and typesetting by Sarah Lawson with assistance from Rebekah Smith and Don't Look Now! Cover artwork based on a drawing by Emily Hunt. The type is New Caladonia and Frutiger. Books printed offset at McNaughton & Gunn. Cover printed letterpress at Ugly Duckling Presse. Hand-bound by volunteers at the UDP studio."--Colophon.

"Alexis Almeida is a poet and translator. She is the author of Half-Shine (Dancing Girl Press) and the chapbook I Have Never Been Able to Sing (UDP). Her translations include Roberta Iannamico’s Wreckage (Toad Press), Marina Yuszczuk’s Single Mother (Spork Press), Dalia Rosetti’s Dreams and Nightmares (Les Figues) and Florencia Castellano’s Monitored Properties (UDP). She teaches in the Language and Thinking Program at Bard College and at the Bard Microcollege at the Brooklyn Public Library. She lives in Brooklyn, where she runs 18 Owls Press."--Publisher's website (viewed 2019 June 4).

Purchased May 1, 2019, with the Daniel A. Pollack Class of 1960 Poetry Fund.

As issued, in illustrated printed paper; in prefab case, 19 cm.