egypt
By Dawn Michelle Baude
"Our entire language is made up of short little dreams."
—Paul Valery
This work of poetry is the result of the year that Dawn Michelle Baude spent at the Karnak Temple in Luxor. In 1993-94 she was an associate of the Villa Medicis Hors Les Murs, which allowed her to complete this site-specific work.
Deploying a poetics of field and fragment, Dawn Baude explores the at once fugitive and urgent nature of encounter. An exploratory lyricism investigates the trace and the remnant, the immediate and the undisclosed. The yield is a papyrus (an "egypt") of tones and microtones, colors and shadings, angles and dissolves for eye and ear.
—Michael Palmer
Dawn Michelle Baude is the author of several volumes of poetry, including egypt (Post-Apollo: San Francisco, 2002), The Beirut Poems (Skanky Possum: Austin, TX, 2001), and Sunday (Signum Editions: Paris, FR, 2002). Her poems have appeared in a range of journals, including recent work in First Intensity, Bridge, and Verse, while her poetry criticism has been featured in journals such as American Book Review and the St. Mark's Poetry Project Newsletter. In addition to work in poetry, Baude is also the author of a monograph on Swedish artist Curt Asker, reConnaître: Curt Asker (Reunion des Musées Nationaux: Paris, FR, 2001); her essays have appeared in Vogue and Newsweek International. For the last 14 years, she has lived mostly in Europe and the Middle East.
61 pages $14.00 ISBN 978-0-942996-44-9
