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Some Other Ways

出版	World Chess Hall of Fame, 2017
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=x2TszgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋"Some Other Ways is a prose-poetic serial comprised of daily entries written by Jessica Baran and Nathaniel Farrell during the first month of the 45th president’s term of office, from Inauguration Day to President’s Day (January 20-February 20, 2017). The resulting 64 poems chart the domestic life of the two poets—a couple—focusing on how their material stuff moves around them like chess pieces, representing tasks done or undone ... Figuratively, each poem documents the poets’ personal and socio-political maneuvers, be they in respect to their relationship, their professional lives, or, in a larger context, their roles as citizens in a volatile political landscape. If the intersection of personal and political spaces serves as the sounding board for poetic content, the temporal structure of the calendar month serves as the project’s layout inspiration—each calendar page is a square where moves are made as the composition’s strategy unfolds. The poems themselves, then, while not written as explicit responses, use real time-and-space interactions to represent moves and counter-moves toward an endgame of romantic longevity, not conquest ... Some Other Ways sets the stability of a household up as a bulwark against an unstable time. To embody the intersection of personal and political, the sequence has been printed in the form of a newsprint broadside—resembling a newspaper—in which each poem appears in the shape of a noted endgame strategy"--World Chess Hall of Fame website, viewed January 19, 2022.