Frayed Edges
Written in discourse with a panoramic community of artists, Frayed Edges charts space for textile poetry to exist in equal regard and legibility to written poetry. Eloquent and assured, Laura Davis inducts the reader into a rich and long-historied artform where senses are layered, endpoints become unseamed, and significance is shaped by burning plastic and weaving stitches. Guiding with thoughtful passion, Davis pays mind to the environmental, feminist and colonial implications of material and technique, engaging directly with the art and the artists to illuminate the inherent intertextuality of textile poetry. To articulate the unsayable, textile poetry expands the horizons of expression, reforming the hierarchy of the written word and claiming an identity unbeholden to semantic meaning. Laura Davis invites the reader to lose themself along the borderless edges of legibility, to wander aimlessly and discover new ways of engaging with these fraying spaces for creativity.
Contains a book of essays and a book of poetry.