CRYSTALLOGRAPHY
‘Crystallography is literally a groundbreaking book.
— Marjorie Perloff
Crystallography is the mineral science whose name means ‘lucid writing.’ This extraordinary work of literature explores the boundary between science and poetics, suggesting that to write with clarity in either field involves the most intense thought, much like an act of ‘lucid dreaming.’ The book reveals that, within the sediment of everyday language, poems are crystalline.
CRYSTALLOGRAPHY — EPHEMERA
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PRELIMINARY SURVEY
‘Preliminary Survey’ constitutes a sample of poetry from Crystallography (introducing the first 16 pages of the book).
Coach House Books
Edition: ∞
2003 -
DIAMONDS
‘Diamonds’ (from Crystallography) recounts anecdotes about diamonds, while conforming to a monowidth, letterist constraint.
Coach House Books
Edition: 400
2003 -
MIDWINTER GLACIARIA
‘Midwinter Glaciaria’ (from Crystallography) ‘winterizes’ the style of poetry in The Natural Histories by Christopher Dewdney.
The Power Plant
Edition: 1000
2011 -
FIELD STUDIES IN CRYSTALLOGRAPHY
‘Field Studies in Crystallography’ defines three Greek terms in a potential, imaginary aesthetics of crystalline perfectness.
Pushy Broadsides
Edition: 38
1992 -
CRYSTALLOGRAPHY (A REPORT ON LUCID WRITING)
‘Crystallography (A Report on Lucid Writing)’ summarizes a crystal poetics, via a translucid palimpsest (equipped with a magnifier).
Fingerprinting Inkoperated
Edition: 70
1997