Meredith Stricker

Women translate the bodies of trees

“the familiar identity of things has to be pulverized” –– Rothko

“poor Orpheus holds air only, slippery” –– Ovid, Metamorphoses

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lines in these poems correspond to Rothko paintings
and form part of a project to re-filter myth and the art canon
though an alternate lens

WOMEN TRANSLATE THE BODIES OF TREES Meredith Stricker
WOMEN TRANSLATE THE BODIES OF TREES Meredith Stricker
WOMEN TRANSLATE THE BODIES OF TREES Meredith Stricker
WOMEN TRANSLATE THE BODIES OF TREES Meredith Stricker
WOMEN TRANSLATE THE BODIES OF TREES Meredith Stricker
WOMEN TRANSLATE THE BODIES OF TREES Meredith Stricker
WOMEN TRANSLATE THE BODIES OF TREES Meredith Stricker
WOMEN TRANSLATE THE BODIES OF TREES Meredith Stricker
WOMEN TRANSLATE THE BODIES OF TREES Meredith Stricker
WOMEN TRANSLATE THE BODIES OF TREES Meredith Stricker
WOMEN TRANSLATE THE BODIES OF TREES Meredith Stricker

Meredith Stricker is a visual artist and poet working in cross-genre media. She is the author of Our Animal, Omnidawn Open Book Prize; Tenderness Shore which received the National Poetry Series Award; Alphabet Theater, mixed-media performance poetry from Wesleyan University Press; Mistake, Caketrain Chapbook Award and Anemochore selected for the Gloria Anzaldúa chapbook prize, Newfound Press. Her work will appear in the 2019 Best American Experimental Writing anthology from Wesleyan.

She co-directs visual poetry studio, a collaborative that focuses on architecture in Big Sur, California and projects to bring together artists, writers, musicians and experimental forms. https://www.meredithstricker.com