She indicates that a text might be held together with loose logic and association, and also mentions the actual adhesives necessary in nest building, i.e. She brings us close to her activity-an activity (like nest-building) that is often concealed and sequestered.Īs Vogel gently enacts these labors, we experience their fits and starts. Vogel foregrounds the raw materials of her own writing with untethered lines and phrases hovering across and down the field of the page punctuation marks behave like glyphs or illustrative jottings. Some materials from the nest are in sharp focus while others appear blurry, suggesting the eye’s variable perception and movement. The photographs (taken by Vogel), functioning as windows, evoke the act of peering in to detect the nest builder’s methods. If you open Danielle Vogel’s book, Edges & Fray, a few pages in, you’ll see on the left-hand page three square photographs of birds’ nests, and on the right-hand side syntactical fragments including, “a book arrives in threads-.” As the interrelation of nest-building and text-composing emerges, we become privy to these two undertakings. Septemin Reviews by Kristina Marie Darling
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