Rivera, who lives in New York City, wrote her chapbook as a kind of “sensual response” to her one-month residency at Djerassi, a multi-disciplinary artist commune southeast of San Francisco. In both, the natural comes into existence as an object of knowledge (however defined) only in relation to artifice-first and foremost, to their writings but also to their places of residence - and to the artificial structures of culture. And this has to do with the ways that nature is constructed in these two chapbooks. Linda Russo, picturing everything closer visible (Projective Industries, 2013), 15 pp.-Rivera and Russo unearth and re-investigate the culture/nature problem in distinct but similar ways. Elena Rivera, On the Nature of Position and Tone (Fields Press, 2012), 35 pp.
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