{"product_id":"planetaria-visual-poetry-9798218510060","title":"Planetaria: Visual Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003eRewriting the sky from a female perspective, \u003cb\u003eMonica Ong\u003c\/b\u003e invites readers into the intimate cosmology of \u003ci\u003ePlanetaria\u003c\/i\u003e, utilizing the visual language of astronomy to explore the precarious territories of motherhood, women in science, and diaspora identity. This collection examines the power struggles that myth-making elicits through the alchemy of text and image hybrids.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a foreword by art critic and poet \u003cb\u003eJohn Yau\u003c\/b\u003e, these poems move through constellations, across ancestral skies, turning wide-eyed insomnia into nocturnes in search of home. This full color collection includes gallery views of the poems as installations, fine press and interactive works, giving full expression to Ong's interdisciplinary practice of visual poetry. If poetry and astronomy were to throw an art party, this one welcomes audiences across disciplines and cultures to imagine new cosmographies where everyone belongs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOng, Monica:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMonica Ong\u003c\/b\u003e is a visual poet and the author of \u003ci\u003eSilent Anatomies\u003c\/i\u003e (Kore Press). A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, Ong brings a designer's eye to experimental writing with her hybrid image-poems and installations that surface hidden narratives of women and diaspora. Her poetry can be found in \u003ci\u003eScientific American\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ectrl+v\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePoetry Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and anthologies like \u003ci\u003eA Mouth Holds Many Things: A De-Canon Hybrid-Literary Collection\u003c\/i\u003e (Fonograf Editions).\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePlanetaria\u003c\/i\u003e, Ong's recent series of astronomy-inspired visual poetry was exhibited at the Poetry Foundation and the Hunterdon Art Museum. You can find her fine press visual poetry editions and literary art objects in over fifty distinguished institutional collections worldwide. In 2024, Ong was named a United States Artists Fellow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eYau, John:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Yau\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet, art critic, fiction writer, and publisher whose recent books include \u003ci\u003eDisguise the Limit: John Yau's Collaborations\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTell It Slant\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGenghis Chan on Drums\u003c\/i\u003e. He founded Black Square Editions and cofounded the online magazine \u003ci\u003eHyperallergic Weekend\u003c\/i\u003e. He has received awards and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, National Endowment of the Arts, and Academy of American Poets, among others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn art critic who has been publishing art criticism since 1978, Yau is also a professor of critical studies at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. After writing for \u003ci\u003eArt in America\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eArtforum\u003c\/i\u003e, he served as the arts editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Brooklyn Rail\u003c\/i\u003e from 2006 to 2011, and then began writing for \u003ci\u003eHyperallergic Weekend\u003c\/i\u003e. He was the recipient of the 2018 Jackson Poetry Prize. In 2021, Yau was awarded the Rabkin Prize for excellence in visual arts journalism. His books of art criticism include \u003ci\u003eIn the Realm of Appearances: The Art of Andy Warhol\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Thing Among Things: The Art of Jasper Johns\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as monographs on Wifredo Lam, Thomas Nozkowski, Joe Brainard, Catherine Murphy, A. R. Penck, Richard Artschwager, Pat Steir, Liu Xiaodong, and Kim Tschang-yeul.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Proxima Vera","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51298549629202,"sku":"9798218510060","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ad230e13-18d2-4ece-bb2f-b88c9f6d1f3f.jpg?v=1747826978","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/planetaria-visual-poetry-9798218510060","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}