Senryu & Nudes
2008 by Marc Awodey with introductory essay by Janaka Stucky
ISBN: 0-9771397-7-8
2008 by Marc Awodey. Award-winning poet and renowned Vermont artist, Marc Awodey offers a collection of visual and written poetry. Senryu & Nudes juxtaposes drawings of nude figures with senryu, a Japanese style of poetry. Like haiku, senryu is a short form of poetry that consists of three lines with seventeen or fewer phonetic units. Unlike haiku, where the subject is nature, senryu trades in the foibles of man, treating its subject with dark humor and cynicism.
"The point of combining senryu and nudes is to suggest that poems must evolve from a state of psychological nudity," writes Awodey. The drawings in the book are poetic moments in and of themselves, rendered in a loose, gestural style. Some of the drawings have been torn apart and what is presented are the ripped fragments of paper that form a collage on the page.
PURCHASE BOOK | EXHIBITION | BIOGRAPHY
ABOUT MARC AWODEY
Marc Awodey is a poet and artist in Burlington, Vermont. He holds an MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art and is the 2000 National Poetry Slam “head-to-head” Haiku Champion. His poetry has appeared worldwide in a number of publications, including Humanitas, Plainsong, Midwest Poetry Review, Portland Review, Writer’s Journal, and Lexicon. He has published three volumes of poetry: New York: A Haibun Journey (2003), Telegrams From the Psych Ward and Other Poems (2000), and Senryu and Nudes (2008). Awodey is also an accomplished art writer and critic, who writes for Art New England and Seven Days. In 2004, Awodey published 95 Theses: Art & Machine, which discusses his poetry vending machine project in the late 1990s.
ABOUT JANAKA STUCKY
Janaka Stucky is the founder and managing editor of Black Ocean, which publishes a variety of literary fiction, non-fiction and poetry titles each year, as well as Handsome magazine. He received his BFA in Writing & Literature from Emerson College and an MFA in Poetry from Vermont College. He is also the co-founder of the Boston-based Guerilla Poets, a street poetry collective that grew to over 700 members nationwide by the turn of the millennium. Rooted in Boston, Janaka spends his life traveling, writing, and caring for the dead. His own poetry has appeared in numerous journals, including Denver Quarterly and North American Review, and he served as editor for Speak These Words: a Guerilla Poets Anthology (WPC-Minimal Press 2001). He is developing the perfection of effort, and is ever ready to serve you by word.
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