Olivia Cronk's Gwenda, Rodney is an exquisitely genre-ambiguous “poetry novel” scintillating with art, ardor, and decay. It's a book about reading novels, ekphrasis, and the gaze, transcribed in a mode as ethereal as air filling a garment left to hang. Inspired by theater, Dario Argento's luscious horror aesthetics, the gaudy-spectacle-art of Toulouse-Lautrec’s paintings and Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s films, and the feeling of reading novels like drinking endless water, Gwenda, Rodney, is an inspiration, an exhalation, a quivering ruby of obsession on display.
Dimensions: 4.5 x 7"
Materials: Softcover book
Meekling Press
(Pilsen)
Meekling Press is a small “boundary defying” publisher, printer, and arts collective based in Chicago. We are a low-scale and DIT (Do It Together!) press. Many of our editions are handmade, partially printed on the letterpress, and/or hand-bound. We work in collaboration with our authors throughout the design and production process. We are not so interested in boundaries of genre, or in restrictions of length. What is more important is to find that sentence or that novel (etc) its most wonderful, thoughtfully-created nest.
