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Baroness Elsa's em-dashes, Astrid Seme
Baroness Elsa's em-dashes, Astrid Seme
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Baroness Elsa's em-dashes, Astrid Seme

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The purpose of the em dash is wide-ranging —as an appropriation of silence, as acting dissonance, as interruption, as occupying space. This anthology zooms into the pointed use of em dashes in the poems of pioneering Dadaist artist, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874 – 1927). Her poems; performances; costumes and life-style all made a point of challenging extremely challenged bourgeois artistic and moral conventions with an unapologetically feminist, proto-punk aesthetic.

The reader will find Elsa’s works in conversation with the likes of well-known dashers such as Gertrude Stein, Laurence Sterne, Heinrich von Kleist or the queen of dashing herself Emily Dickinson.

Published by Mark Pezinger Books
Edition of 500

Softcover
96 pages
105  x 145 mm
ISBN 9783950452525

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