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ABOUT THE PROJECT
David Koehn and Rebecca Resinski erased every page of The Sign of the Four (1890) by Arthur Conan Doyle, leaving only four words per page, choosing one word at a time, and alternating the choice between the two of them. A selection of the resulting poems is presented in intervals of.
David and Rebecca describe their work together: “For us, this project was about dynamic relationships, entangled awareness, and meaning-making across time and space. We live in different time zones and have different work schedules, so collaborating on an extended project in real time was not a possibility. Instead, we used email and shared documents to facilitate our exchanges and be present to one another while also absent. Because we had such freedom in each of our word choices—to pick one from anywhere on a page or even create a new word from letters on the page—we were continually surprised by each other and were challenged to be responsive to the other person’s choices as well as our own impulses. The very process of erasure reinforces these aspects of the project. Erasure involves collaboration from a distance (in this case with a text more than a century old), the interplay of absence and presence by which the blankness of a page becomes as significant as the marks of the retained words, and an openness to the possibilities of making meaning when one’s choices are largely shaped by and intertwined with someone else’s.”
The spare pages of intervals of can be approached as clues with no set conclusion, inviting readers to complete them with their own imagined contexts.
THE AUTHORS
David Koehn won the May Sarton Poetry Prize for his first book, Twine (Bauhan, 2013). His recent book publications include Compendium (Omnidawn, 2017), Scatterplot (Omnidawn, 2020), and the forthcoming Sur (Omnidawn, 2024). Koehn earned his BA in Creative Writing from Carnegie Mellon and an MFA from the University of Florida. His work appears in Subtropics, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, McSweeney's, and others. He has also published two chapbooks, Coil (University of Alaska, 1997) and Tunic (sPect, 2013), translations of Catullus.
Rebecca Resinski is one of the founding editors of Heron Tree. She also designs and produces pamphlets under the Cuckoo Grey imprint.
David and Rebecca met in a high school poetry workshop during the Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts in 1985.
THE EDITION
intervals of is a digitally printed, 30 page staple-bound chapbook on 70lb white (interior) and 65 lb marigold (cover) paper. The rear cover features hand painted additions in blue.
ABOUT THE PROJECT
David Koehn and Rebecca Resinski erased every page of The Sign of the Four (1890) by Arthur Conan Doyle, leaving only four words per page, choosing one word at a time, and alternating the choice between the two of them. A selection of the resulting poems is presented in intervals of.
David and Rebecca describe their work together: “For us, this project was about dynamic relationships, entangled awareness, and meaning-making across time and space. We live in different time zones and have different work schedules, so collaborating on an extended project in real time was not a possibility. Instead, we used email and shared documents to facilitate our exchanges and be present to one another while also absent. Because we had such freedom in each of our word choices—to pick one from anywhere on a page or even create a new word from letters on the page—we were continually surprised by each other and were challenged to be responsive to the other person’s choices as well as our own impulses. The very process of erasure reinforces these aspects of the project. Erasure involves collaboration from a distance (in this case with a text more than a century old), the interplay of absence and presence by which the blankness of a page becomes as significant as the marks of the retained words, and an openness to the possibilities of making meaning when one’s choices are largely shaped by and intertwined with someone else’s.”
The spare pages of intervals of can be approached as clues with no set conclusion, inviting readers to complete them with their own imagined contexts.
THE AUTHORS
David Koehn won the May Sarton Poetry Prize for his first book, Twine (Bauhan, 2013). His recent book publications include Compendium (Omnidawn, 2017), Scatterplot (Omnidawn, 2020), and the forthcoming Sur (Omnidawn, 2024). Koehn earned his BA in Creative Writing from Carnegie Mellon and an MFA from the University of Florida. His work appears in Subtropics, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, McSweeney's, and others. He has also published two chapbooks, Coil (University of Alaska, 1997) and Tunic (sPect, 2013), translations of Catullus.
Rebecca Resinski is one of the founding editors of Heron Tree. She also designs and produces pamphlets under the Cuckoo Grey imprint.
David and Rebecca met in a high school poetry workshop during the Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts in 1985.
THE EDITION
intervals of is a digitally printed, 30 page staple-bound chapbook on 70lb white (interior) and 65 lb marigold (cover) paper. The rear cover features hand painted additions in blue.
ABOUT THE PROJECT
David Koehn and Rebecca Resinski erased every page of The Sign of the Four (1890) by Arthur Conan Doyle, leaving only four words per page, choosing one word at a time, and alternating the choice between the two of them. A selection of the resulting poems is presented in intervals of.
David and Rebecca describe their work together: “For us, this project was about dynamic relationships, entangled awareness, and meaning-making across time and space. We live in different time zones and have different work schedules, so collaborating on an extended project in real time was not a possibility. Instead, we used email and shared documents to facilitate our exchanges and be present to one another while also absent. Because we had such freedom in each of our word choices—to pick one from anywhere on a page or even create a new word from letters on the page—we were continually surprised by each other and were challenged to be responsive to the other person’s choices as well as our own impulses. The very process of erasure reinforces these aspects of the project. Erasure involves collaboration from a distance (in this case with a text more than a century old), the interplay of absence and presence by which the blankness of a page becomes as significant as the marks of the retained words, and an openness to the possibilities of making meaning when one’s choices are largely shaped by and intertwined with someone else’s.”
The spare pages of intervals of can be approached as clues with no set conclusion, inviting readers to complete them with their own imagined contexts.
THE AUTHORS
David Koehn won the May Sarton Poetry Prize for his first book, Twine (Bauhan, 2013). His recent book publications include Compendium (Omnidawn, 2017), Scatterplot (Omnidawn, 2020), and the forthcoming Sur (Omnidawn, 2024). Koehn earned his BA in Creative Writing from Carnegie Mellon and an MFA from the University of Florida. His work appears in Subtropics, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, McSweeney's, and others. He has also published two chapbooks, Coil (University of Alaska, 1997) and Tunic (sPect, 2013), translations of Catullus.
Rebecca Resinski is one of the founding editors of Heron Tree. She also designs and produces pamphlets under the Cuckoo Grey imprint.
David and Rebecca met in a high school poetry workshop during the Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts in 1985.
THE EDITION
intervals of is a digitally printed, 30 page staple-bound chapbook on 70lb white (interior) and 65 lb marigold (cover) paper. The rear cover features hand painted additions in blue.