By changing the title of a poem from 1989, Fitterman produces a new poem that encapsulates the emotional and physical distancing of the coronavirus pandemic in New York in the spring of 2020. The new poem works in dialogic relation to the earlier minimalist expression of desire.
Double-sided mini-broadside with two poems, printed letterpress from metal type in March of 2020 in an edition of 500.
Robert Fitterman is the author of 15 books of poetry including This Window Makes Me Feel (UDP, 2018), Nevermind (Wonder Books, 2016), Rob’s Word Shop (UDP, forthcoming, 2018), No Wait, Yep. Definitely Still Hate Myself (UDP, 2014), Holocaust Museum (Counterpath, 2013, and Veer [London] 2012), now we are friends (Truck Books, 2010), Rob the Plagiarist (Roof Books, 2009), war, the musical (Subpress, 2006), and Metropolis—a long poem in 4 separate volumes, and is the co-author of Notes on Conceptualisms (UDP, 2009). He has collaborated with several visual artists, including Serkan Ozkaya, Nayland Blake, Fia Backström, Tim Davis and Klaus Killisch, and is the founding member of the international artists and writers collective, Collective Task. He teaches at New York University and is a member of the writing faculty of the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College.
Print/Ephemera
Double-sided letterpress broadside. 5 x 6.5 in
Publication Date: April 18 2020
Distribution: Direct Only