End Lines by Adam Tedesco


Process Note

End Lines is a video version of a poem called “Cache”, from my collection Mary Oliver, which was originally screened at the 2018 &Now Festival.  This poem was composed of the end lines of a huge stack of books, which I put in a notebook and took to Italy with me, where I composed the poem. The majority of the footage in this video was recorded during that same trip.

 

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Born in Upstate New York, poet and video artist Adam Tedesco is a founding editor of REALITY BEACH, a journal of new poetics. His work has been screened at MoMA PS1, &Now: A Festival of Innovative Writing, No Nation Gallery, New Hampshire Poetry Festival, and has appeared or is forthcoming in Conduit, Diagram, FencejubilatLaurel Review, and elsewhere. He is the author of several chapbooks, most recently Misrule (Ursus Americanus, 2019). His first full-length poetry collection, Mary Oliver, was recently published by Lithic Press.