One Long Black Sentence Gladman, Renee & Moten, Fred

Ithaca: Image Text Ithaca Press, 2020. Hardcover. 112 pages, 61 color illustrations. Near fine. Scarce artists' book. "A sumptuous artist s book of acclaimed writer Renee Gladman s fantastical drawings that merge writing and architecture, with a response from Fred Moten. Since 2013, poet, novelist, essayist and artist Renee Gladman (born 1971) author of the acclaimed Ravickians novels has been doing a kind of asemic writing that is also at once drawing and architecture (some of this work was published as Prose Architectures in 2017). Printed in white ink on black, with a beautiful embroidered cover, One Long Black Sentence brings together these drawings with a text by New York based theorist and poet Fred Moten (born 1962) to form a sumptuous artist s book in which drawing becomes an architecture for thought, for what writing looks like from the inside out. Fred Moten s Anindex pushes the index beyond its utilitarian conventions. At times riffing on the architectonics of Gladman s illustrations, Moten s associative poetic prose points toward the structuring imposition or emergence of sentences as the marks and forms of thought."