UR Alumni Publication. The Rare Book Room copy bound in paper boards with cloth spine. Numbered 6 of 25; it includes author's
autograph.
Description
After is about the life of the book in the digital age and the transitory nature of all things. It is structured into two
sections. The first section features photos of ghostly afterimages left behind on the glassine sheets protecting plates in
a 1929 art history catalog. The real world intrudes at the end of the first section when a thumb appears in the image. As
the reader flips to the second side of the dos-a-dos, the imagery pivots to include afterimages of different kinds from the
outside world. The text in the book is a blackout poem using a sequence of poems by 15th-century Japanese Zen monk Ikkyu as
the source text. The original sequence - titled Skeletons - is an extended exploration of the same transitory theme as After.
