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urn:uuid:3a80885a-8d06-4fd8-8dcc-1eed76b582f5 03 01 01 urn:uuid:3a80885a-8d06-4fd8-8dcc-1eed76b582f5 15 9781685711771 06 10.53288/0510.1.00 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ 01 01 Kern 1 A01 Derek Beaulieu 01 eng 00 106 03 12 DCF 93 DCF B2 Fabulations 10 POE011000 20 visual poetry 93 DCC 20 dry-transfer lettering 20 asemic writing 20 language art 20 signage 20 advertising 20 graphic art 03 00 <p>Proposed as a collection of imaginary logos for the corporate sponsors of Borges’s Library of Babel, <italic>Kern</italic> balances on a precipice between the visual and nonsensical, offering poems just out of meaning’s reach. Using dry-transfer lettering, Beaulieu made these concrete pieces by hand, building the images gesturally in response to shapes and patterns in the letters themselves. This is poetry closer to architecture and design than confession, in which letters are released from their usual semantic duties as they slide into unexpected affinities and new patterns. <italic>Kern</italic> highlights the gaps inside what we see and what we know, filling the familiar with the singular and the just seen with the faintly remembered.</p><p>This title is a second edition, released as part of punctum’s <ext-link xlink:href="https://punctumbooks.pubpub.org/pub/punctum-introduces-special-collections-les-figues/">Special Collections</ext-link> project.</p> 20 00 Open Access Les Figues 01 punctum books Earth, Milky Way 04 01 20230921 13 15 9781685711764 09 punctum books 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.punctumbooks.com/10.53288/0510.1.00.pdf 99 01 09 punctum books 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://punctumbooks.com/titles/kern/ 99 01