{"id":36,"date":"2015-02-08T23:53:03","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T23:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demolid.com\/heatherhermant\/?p=36"},"modified":"2018-06-14T01:39:56","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T01:39:56","slug":"o-w-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heatherhermant.com\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"O W N"},"content":{"rendered":"

A collection from CUE Books, Vancouver (2014), O W N assembles three very distinct ecopoetic practices: Heather Hermant’s \u201cpoems for glass\u201d ; angela rawlings’ \u201cHow to Manage a Conservation Conversation\u201d and Chris Turnbull’s [ untitled ], each responding to ecological damage in the anthropocene through socially-engaged, site-specific practices ranging from interactive installation (Hermant), to a near-impossibly adaptable play (rawlings), to words grafted onto life-forms (Turnbull).<\/p>\n

poems for glass<\/em> were written on over 100 fused glass tiles created by Melina Young for the commissioned performance installation “Nice Bumping Into You,”<\/a> which we co-created at the invitation of Diaspora Dialogues for Nuit Blanche at the Gardiner Museum, Toronto, 2010.<\/p>\n

Click to read poems for glass<\/em><\/a>. Requires a password.<\/p>\n

Praise for the collection:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe three works contained in this book move in what Chris Turnbull calls \u201cendless directions.\u201d Glass refracts light, bodies fracture into rays, a line moves beneath land and river, people walk in and out of the room. As I encounter the various ecopoetics articulated here\u2014their overlaying of \u201call these bodies. all this water\u201d (Turnbull), our interpenetration and possible identity with \u201cTHE NATURE\u201d (rawlings)\u2014I encounter the sharp fear that Hermant articulates: \u201ci fear i am the Earth \/ and so i am toxic \/ life upon me decaying \/ radiant and irreproducible.\u201d … By inquiring into what can make us shatter, break apart as individuals, communities, ecosystems, these works also offer us some ideas about what can hold us together. If \u201cthe body is an illusion of fortitude” (Hermant), it’s not \u201ca pipe \/ line\u201d that’ll keep us close.\u201d
\n-Sarah Dowling<\/p>\n

\u201cRead this book and become glass, become a line, become a room, become a glacial tongue.\u201d
\n-Sonnet L’Abb\u00e9<\/p>\n

“Three poetic takes on the senses of \u201cown,\u201d from (dis)possession to acknowledgment, and of the responsibility that recognition brings. These playful, site-specific choreographies address fragility, \u201cglass delusions\u201d and communal fears. Own exposes gross transparency, listens dialogically, to acknowledge that THE NATURE will not do what it is told. Our feelings, for instance, own several roles. Riding tandem with the \u201cmourning cloak,\u201d you\u2019ll want a copy for the map case. An exquisite, thought-provoking book.”
\n– Jonathan Skinner<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cRead this book and become glass, become a line, become a room, become a glacial tongue.\u201d
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