Chapbook Launch Party! w/ Allison Cardon + Travis Sharp / Buffalo NY

Join Travis Sharp (Sinister Queer Agenda) and Allison Cardon (What was the sign you gave (a selection)) as they launch their above/ground press chapbook debuts!

Thursday, September 20, 2018 at 8 PM
The Rust Belt Bookstore
415 Grant St, Buffalo, New York 14213
See the Facebook event here

Greg Bem reviews Allison Cardon's What was the sign you gave (a selection) (2018)

Our pal Greg Bem was good enough to provide the first review for Allison Cardon's What was the sign you gave (a selection) (2018) at Goodreads. Thanks so much! You can see the original review here.

This book, which pulls language and ideas from works by Hannah Arendt, Roland Barthes, and The Saint Joan of Arc Center, is a book of questions. It is spacey and subtle in its writing, but dense and driven in its curiosities. The dis-assemblage of the found text and found ideas by way of an almost cautious pace results in a dimming of the original ideas, either intentional or not. This dimming results, fascinatingly, in a barrier towards access and evolution of those original ideas and while the potential profound core is brilliant, the motivations are uncertain enough to be offputting and stressful.

new from above/ground press: What was the sign you gave (a selection), by Allison Cardon

What was the sign you gave (a selection)
by Allison Cardon
$5

k. Never separate a behavior from the account the subject gives of it, for the word penetrates the act throughout.

Have you seen this richer

crown

Do you see anything

else of them but the

face

Did you never see any

sprinkled

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
July 2018
celebrating twenty-five years of above/ground press
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Allison Cardon is a Ph.D. candidate at SUNY Buffalo and edits P-Queue. She has published work in Gramma, Touch the Donkey, Full-Stop, and Jacket2.

To order, send cheques (add $1 for postage; outside Canada, add $2) to: rob mclennan, 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON K1H 7M9 or paypal at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com