Description
Genevieve Yue, author of Negative Sky:
“In March 2006, I found a collection of old photographs in a novelty store in Taos, New Mexico. Very few of the pictures came with any identification, and it was evident that many had been torn out of albums and scrapbooks. I selected eight images and wrote pieces accompanying each. They were, to me, like ghosts: I knew little about where they came from, but was immediately struck, even haunted, by the expressions and postures that had been frozen in the photographs. I wanted Negative Sky, in writing and in print, to convey this sense of both intimacy and distance.”
The book Negative Sky is a limited edition of 80. The old, faded snapshots were scanned and “translated” digitally in a mimesis of the poet’s own claiming and distorting of the images. The resulting photopolymer plates were printed on the Chandler & Price platen press. The poems were printed from magnesium plates on the Pilot tabletop press to achieve the uneven quality that makes some of the words seem out of focus. A chipboard cover and rice paper spine finish off this collection of 8 poems and 8 snapshots. Lettre Sauvage 2006-2008.
Genevieve Yue was a founder of Lettre Sauvage and spearheaded our fine press editions. She is an associate professor of culture and media and director of the Screen Studies program at the New School. She is the author of Girl Head: Feminism and Film Materiality (Fordham University Press, 2021).
