Isotope/Autobitchography by Alice Ladrick, 2023

Isotope/Autobitchography were written from 2012-2014 and were never published.

Isotope brings in the self behind the poems. The human body is placed in interaction with scientific, medical, and poetic fields. While each of these is working to dehumanize the body through their objectivity; the self repeatedly breaks through emotionally. The Rosenbergs fight through history, the human body refuses abstraction.

Autobitchography calls out in short bursts, demanding the reader come into their exclusive party. Once inside, the reader finds an almost cliquish fight between the poet and the poems themselves, their context, and their surroundings.

The text pages are laser printed on 20lb paper at The Bindery in Milwaukee. The cover was printed with a robot arm using gold Sharpie markers on an 80lb speckletone coverstock. This book is hand-sewn in a dos-à-dos binding with printed marbled endsheets from Jemma Lewis Marbling in an edition of 40. Another 10 special edition copies were made with striped, robot-arm-drawn endsheets.

Price: $10
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