Styling Sagaciousness Oh Great No!

During the Paris pandemic confinement period of 2020, with the dread of viral death in the air, artist Joseph Nechvatal finished his second book of poetry, titled Styling Sagaciousness: Oh Great No! The mythopoeic mélange of Styling Sagaciousness is intended as a complicated forensic fairy-tale, su...

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Main Author: Nechvatal, Joseph (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Brooklyn, NY punctum books 2022
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