Erica N. Cardwell
Erica Cardwell is a writer and critic based in Brooklyn and Toronto.
Chronology
By Erica N. CardwellChronology, the winner of the 2019 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir, is a nonfiction collage of emails, journal entries, press releases, theory, and short bits of theatrical dialogue, producing an appropriate pastiche for the contemporary multimedia-trained brain. It is a hybrid text formulated from ones personal archive, which is notable for the photographs and other ephemera tucked into the pages.
N.H. Pritchards The Matrix and EECCHHOOEESS
By Erica N. CardwellThese poetry collections exemplify the literary innovation of this eraa commitment to the pursuit and study of sound and a symbolic resistance to legibility. Pritchards poetry illustrates a specific tenant of jazz poetics: words are more malleable when deconstructed.
JJJJJerome Elliss The Clearing
By Erica N. CardwellA songbook attentive to corporeal language-making processes often dismissed as impediments. The Clearing is not a metaphora symbol for clarity or realizationbut an activation of ever-present clarity.
Pope.L, My Kingdom for a Title
By Erica N. CardwellEqual parts a peek at the artists sketchbook and a career retrospective through Pope.Ls iterative textual analysis, this book enlivens the artists fascination with language as a core mode of inquiry.