Books Mouth to Mouth (EOAGH Books, 2016) Winner, Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Poetry Mouth to Mouth (a “lurid lyric machine”) overflows with wit and lusciousness. “Spangled/ massy/ primped/ saturated” and drunk with alliteration, these athletic poems both resuscitate and kiss language, “loosening what is sfumato/ and indocile.” “Flamboyant and immense,” they loll about and caper in “a/dull or/ mobile sparkling/verveine sky” — a dazzling field of love in verse and verse in love with its own copious potentialities. " —Nada Gordon Abigail trades in opposites and identities, formulations in crisis down to up, left to right. The direct and the elliptical shove each other out of the way berserk with élan and éclat impetuous but you can jump around You can’t help it. …loving the uncertainty of knowing everything and all of it false This is a disaster or I mean is it? No, it’s units—materials—segments —Steve Benson This dark echo remix is “Advertising nothing,” instructing you to “wear what you download” while unveiling the “veined permeable ecstatic suck.” Child invents a ripeness to seduce your decodings. —Ariel Goldberg Reviews: Review of Mouth to Mouth by Charles Borkhuis, in The Poetry Project Newsletter, Oct/Nov 2017 Issue #252 (Page 29) “29th Annual Lambda Literary Awards Announced”, Lambda Literary, June 13, 2017 Is This What You Were Born For? Stratégies d'appropriation et collage audio-visuel. (MetisPresses, 2011) Published in both French and English by MetisPresses as part of their PLANSécant collection, the book focuses on (and takes its title from) Child's signature series of films, IS THIS WHAT YOU WERE BORN FOR?, bringing together five essays examining different aspects of the BORN FOR series, an interview with Abigail Child, and transcriptions of her texts/poems, which form the soundtracks of the BORN FOR films. —ed. François Bovier with critical essays by Tom Gunning, Melissa Ragona, Redell Olsen, and Thomas Zummer. This is Called Moving: A Critical Poetics of Film (University of Alabama Press, 2005) "An excellent and distinctive addition to the MCP series. . . This book focuses a highly articulate poetic intelligence on a range of topics relevant to film studies and literary writing, and at the same time presents a portfolio of interviews and discussion and script material that charts the trajectory of a significant contemporary experimental filmmaker." —Bruce Andrews, author of Paradise and Method: Poetry and Praxis Read most recent reviews of This is Called Moving. Read more about the book. Read the introduction by Tom Gunning. Artificial Memory (Belladonna Press, 2001) A two volume chapbook containing nine parts of a long poem: a portrait of Russia after the break-up of the USSR.
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