Anemochore

Anemochore :::  Newfound Press anzaldua award selected by caconrad

finalist for the Poetry society of america Four Quartets Award

This work is informed by the field of biosemiotics. There’s a sense of language moving across and through species, where bees act as linguistic elements and musical notes patterned on drawings of bee-flight used in communicating flower location to the hive transposed into text forms and drawings

Sources: performance collaboration with an ethno-musicologist, musicians and a bee-keeper using trumpet, piano, accordion, cello, toy piano, melodica, tonkori, live and recorded voice, electronic music, and video.

 Working towards a lexicology of the Open.

How precarious and precious our woven lives are.

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"Meredith Stricker’s Anemochore is an extraordinary, literal plummet down the page, a disorienting space as generous to falling with a poem as it is to let it buoy up the holiness of surrendering to the space for ourselves in the poem."

 – CAConrad

POEMS IN THIS COLLECTION RE CONNECTED TO PERFORMANCES:

Nightwalk ::: Sonoma State University

“we are the bees of the invisible” ::: Flytrap Studio, Oakland