Plans for Sentences

Plans for SentencesDescription Reviews "These sentencestheywill begin having already been sentences somewhere else, and this will mark their afterlife, and this will be their debut." So begins Renee Gladmans latest interdisciplinary project, Plans for Sentences. A tour de force of dizzying brilliance, Gladmans book blurs the distinctions between text and image, recognizing that drawing can be a form of writing, and vice versa: a generative act in which the two practices

sound like today’s answer to whatever and whoever seeks to deny what is actual

Full of the peculiarity and wit characteristic of Ruefle’s work

but there is no way around it: Tyehimba Jess's Olio is a tour de force

a poetics of the suburbs

particularity

quiet yet provocative

these sentences will “loop the unknown and unfinish it” at the same time “these sentences will gather all the pauses into a flowing assembly

that celebrate life

it was a difficult childhood

a surprise of sound and sight

The critical and foundational thoughts of writers such as Charles North

so I took the Nine from the medieval tradition of the Nine Worthies