STILL LOOKING FOR POETRY (2018)
after Ulises Carrion’s "Looking for Poetry/Tras la Poesía"
a diptych of two books, each [12] pp : all ill.; 20x29cm.,
risograph on black paper, digital print on bible paper
Signed and numbered edition of 25. 

Ulises Carrion was fascinated by grammars and dictionaries. Looking for Poetry/Tras la Poesía is one of the first books he published after he had left Mexico and literary writing, and started playing with words and their meanings and the printed and sound spaces that the words inhabit. Carrion was captivated by post-Saussurian structuralist ideas: especially the relationship between the signified and the signifier and this book is a reflection of such.

Still Looking for Poetry was inspired by Looking for Poetry/Tras la Poesía. Moving away from habitually compact poetry volumes, it takes form of two large unbound pamphlets. The first book contains risograph printed words in the same abstract background. The second book functions as an appendix, which elaborates on the pages of the first one. Still Looking for Poetry plays on Carrion’s fascination with Saussurian linguistics and moves one step further, by introducing additional contexts, further refining imagistic experience and further contorting arising metaphors and their interpretations.