Matrix_Redux_Reading.pdf MATRIX REDUX: An Advanced Poetry and Printmaking Workshop, led by Lisa Russ Spaar and Dean Dass

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What is the matrix?  Derived from Latin mater (mother, the womb), it is origin and form-giver, intercellular substance, master, mold, subtext, plate, hungering page.  Making forays into the gap (abysmal, indirect) between matrix and print-poem, we discover the matter of this book.

 

(Lisa Russ Spaar, in “The Matrix”, book printed, hand bound, and published in an edition of twenty by the UVA Matrix Redux course, 2004)

 

Dean Dass, Professor of Art Prof. Dean Dass studied art, philosophy and anthropology at the University of Northern Iowa, and then moved east where he earned his M.F.A. in printmaking from The Tyler School of Art, Temple University ...

Lisa Russ Spaar, Professor of Creative Writing Prof. Lisa Russ Spaar's books include Blue Venus: Poems, Glass Town: Poems, and Acquainted with the Night: Insomnia Poems. Her work has appeared in many journals and periodicals, including ...