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Figuring the Word: Essays on Books, Writing and Visual Poetics collects
diverse writings by Johanna Drucker previously published in literary and
scholarly journals. Topics include: "The Word Made Flesh," "Writing as
Artifact," "Visual Poetics," "Artists' Books Past and Future," "The
Future of Writing," & "Personal Writing." The book also includes an
anecdotal checklist of Drucker's artists' books and an informative
introduction by poet Charles Bernstein.

"Figuring the Word is a work of poetics rather than criticism or theory
in that these essays are the products of doing as much as thinking, of
printing as much as writing, of designing as much as researching, of
typography as much as composition, of autobiography as much as theory.
The mark of the practitioner-critic is everywhere present in these
pieces Figuring the Word is a wide-ranging collection of Drucker's
essays from the early-80's to the present. Written in a variety of
styles and presented in a variety of formats, the book reflects many
divergent aspects of her work and thinking, while at the same time
demonstrating how cohesive her project has been. Drucker begins with a
wonderfully digressive discussion of her work as a book artist in which
she gives an account of what lead her not only to her book art, but also
to her related scholarly investigations. She then provides a series of
close readings of the work of a number of contemporary language artists,
providing in other essays overviews of  the historical precedents for
this work. The book includes not only a perceptive essay about the use
of language in the landscape but also a prescient essay about the use of
language in the new electronic frontier of cyberspace."

-from the introduction by Charles Bernstein, Poet, Editor and David Gray
Professor of Poetry and Poetics at SUNY-Buffalo.


Johanna Drucker has been making books since 1972. Her recent critical
publications include The Century of Artists Books (Granary Books, 1995),
The Alphabetic Labyrinth (Thames and Hudson, 1995), Theorizing Modernism
(Columbia University Press, 1994) and The Visible Word (University of
Chicago Press, 1994); creative titles include: Prove Before Laying
(Druckwerk, 1997) and Narratology (Druckwerk, 1994).

Paperback original. ISBN 1-887123-23-7 $24.95
300 pages; illustrated throughout.

Available at better bookstores, our primary distributor D. A. P.
(1-800-338-BOOK); Small Press Distribution (1-800-869-7553), or direct
from the publisher: Granary Books 568 Broadway #403 New York, NY 10012
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