Kathryn Cowles: The Strange Wondrous Works of Eleanor Eleanor, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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The Strange Wondrous Works of Eleanor Eleanor was selected for the 2025 Fence Modern Poets Series Prize.

"When Eleanor Eleanor left, at least half of the art she had made instantly disappeared, having suddenly never existed at all, evidenceless. When a tree falls, etcetera. When you are your own museum head and go off, so does the historical record. Some artists are compelled toward self-preservation, all acid-free and vacuum-sealed, climate-controlled and HD-scanned, archiving every last snip. Some artists are excellent executors of their own fiction. Like so many women before her, Eleanor Eleanor was not. But she did write things down. She sometimes said that her art works did not feel actually finished when she finished them. Perhaps she used the writing as addendum, as Derridian supplement. Because her art was so often experiential, conceptual, fleeting, fragile, or intentionally self-destroying, much of what we have left is this residual after-writing, a kind of fossil record."

• from the Introduction by Kathryn Cowles