Sheltering in Place

Inkjet pigment printed photographs, drawings, and text; modified papercase binding; housed in drop spine box

5 x 5 x 2 inches; 268 pp.
Edition of 25
2023
$850.00

Sheltering in Place was written between March 2020, the start of the pandemic, and March 2021. It began with writing daily mesostics, a poetic form that uses one word as a vertical spine from which to build a poem around. For this set of poems, the spines consist of the number of days into the pandemic each poem was written. The form evolved as sometimes days melted together as time collapsed, or on days writing proved to seem impossible and then that day became a part of the next day or two days or three days. This book serves as one record of the interior and exterior experience of that first year—a year of closing down and isolation, of unrest and of cruelty, of seeking out and finding small pleasures, and of loss. Interspersed are images made over the year, drawings and photographs—also marking time. Several years in the making, the book was completed in fall of of 2023, well on the other side of that first year, but still not truly out of the fog that remains.

(note: pdf of full text available on request)