Prize-winning poet and hypertext pioneer Stephanie Strickland pushes the boundaries of the printed word to create a completely original poetic experience. V is an invertible volume with two beginnings. Turning the volume from WaveSon.nets to Losing L'una and back again, over and over, creates a fluidity that extends to the poems themselves: words slip and pour across numbers that have their own lives. In the undulant fold at the book's open center one jumps, via a Web site pointer, to V's third section, which will exist in electronic space at www.Vniverse.com. V's muse is Simone Weil, and in this new book Strickland's elegy for Weil is widened to include a long line of known and conjured women. An extraordinary work that is meant to be glimpsed and scanned and begun again, V pulses with many orders of knowledge, organization, and rhythm.

V: WaveSon.nets / Losing l'Una

Literature & Fiction

Strickland, Stephanie

United States

Penguin??Books

This collection of poems explores wayfaring, both in a spiritual sense and in the sense of knowledge navigation in an information age. It explores American history, encompassing writing and identity in the figures of Emily Dickinson and Willard Gibbs, the country's first mathematical physicist.

True North (Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry)

History & Criticism

University of Notre Dame Press

Classmate of Simone de Beauvoir, acquaintance of Trotsky, Spanish Civil War revolutionary, fighter in de Gaulle’s French Resistance, Simone Weil (1909–1943) has also been called the greatest woman philosopher in the Western tradition. In this fiftieth anniversary year of her death, Simone Weil’s life still raises questions. Early in this century three brilliant contemporaries in Paris—Weil, de Beauvoir, and Gertrude Stein—reinvented the female intellect. Of the three, only Weil chose to base her thought on the trauma that war, rape, slavery, and bias inflict. Weil was never deceived by the glamor of power, committing herself to resisting force in whatever guise. More prophet than saint, more wise woman than either, she bore a particular perception of the body, throwing hers against the same issues women battle today: hunger, violence, exclusion, betrayal of the body, inability to be heard, and self hate. Simone Weil belongs to a world culture, still to be formed, where the voices of multiple classes, castes, races, genders, ethnicities, nationalities, and religions can be respected.

Red Virgin: A Poem Of Simone Weil (Wisconsin Poetry Series)

Poetry

University of Wisconsin Press

Red Virgin: A Poem Of Simone Weil (Volume 1993) (Wisconsin Poetry Series)

How often do we stay in relationships that don’t line up with the love we know we deserve? “All too often,” says first time author, advocate and domestic abuse survivor, Stephanie Strickland. But even in the bleakest of situations, Strickland believes there is a way out, a way to get back to ourselves and a way to find the peace we need to, not only survive, but to heal and be made whole.In her debut release Finding Peace Within, Dallas,Texas native Strickland, shares her gripping journey of love and abuse and her triumph over it all. She relives her struggles as a teenage mother, high school drop-out and survivor of domestic violence while fighting to find a better life for her and her sons. With some serious self-reflection, deep-rooted faith and a little mixed martial arts, Strickland breaks down the strongholds in her life and makes it through to the other side.Today, Strickland is an advocate for women, and believes in sharing her story to reach others who may be living the life she now has peace from. She wants her readers to remove the masks they wear daily, causing them to hide their truth. In Finding Peace Within, Strickland teaches women how to break the cycle of insecurity and inspires us to fight for the life God has promised us by sharing our stories of overcoming with others.

Finding Peace Within: My Story of Truth and Triumph

Religion & Spirituality

Kekepania LLC

Weathering (The Hudson Valley Writers' Center Poetry Series)

(Tarrytown, NY: Slapering Hol Press), (1993). (1993)

Book by Strickland, Stephanie, Wagner, Anneliese

River Poems (The Hudson Valley Writers' Center Poetry Series)

Wagner, Anneliese

Slapering Hol Press

Poetry. "Strickland's lyric poetry reads the entire gamut of knowledge—'from sails to satellites' and from shadows and spectres to spectral analysis—through the figure of Simone Weil, for whom knowledge of the spirit was to be attained by lived proof. Imagine this, and you will appreciate how a lyric poetry of such ethereal embodiment can be made to scintillate through hypertext, linked to lines of flight and seeming fantasy. Yet the really good news is that Strickland puts the lyric poem to the test as if, quite as much as music, it were the very instrumentality of a quickening mind."—Marjorie Welish  "In V the poetics of Wittgenstein and Weil—quotidian, notational, mathematical, emotional—are revisited and re-formed. They are, in a word, saved. This is a truly modern book, a guide to the noetic spheres where we are obliged by history, science and heart to go. It is a thrilling work that is above all useful."—Fanny Howe "Stephanie Strickland is one of a handful of outstanding writers working to forge poetic forms at the intersection of technological innovation and the tradition of experimental writing. V is a networked artifact. As a double work, the book contrasts its own internal forms, its winged halves converging on a pivot / hinge from which it leaps toward the constellations of its Web extension. Product of an intellectual imagination similar to Simone Weil's, this poem is radical in integrating new technology, not as a novelty or special effect, but as a way of thinking."—Johanna Drucker "Stephanie Strickland's V is an experimental, philosophical poem, in part a mystical meditation on mathematics, in part a love poem to non-existence. Strickland uses a transgressive style of sentence and syntax and numbering to cross epistemological boundaries and to question worship of the ideal, while offering new beauty in its stead."—Brenda Hillman

V : WaveTercets / Losing L'una

SpringGun Press

Poetry. Multimedia. Stephanie Strickland's new book, ZONE:ZERO, comes with an interactive CD containing two digital poems, "The Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot" and "slippingglimpse." Within the book, these poems appear as print sequences, one of which won the Boston Review prize. "Strickland is one of contemporary poetry's polymaths: her poetry displays an astonishing command of scientific knowledge (for instance Kurt Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem), technical know-how, especially in the realm of electronic poetics, and unusual verbal virtuosity. The piece de resistance in ZONE : ZERO is the interactive generative Flash poem `slippingglimpse,' in which text and video, made by using motion capture coding, combine so as to create a genuinely new and distinctive eco-poetry. Readers/viewers will find themselves totally mesmerized"--Marjorie Perloff.

Zone: Zero (New Series, 24)

Ahsahta Press

Poetry. As our material face-to-face world, threatened from so many directions, slips into potentially infinite virtual spaces...where have we gone? This slippage has happened suddenly, worldwide, and we do not know whether it renders humankind irrelevant, serves as an escape from apocalyptic problems, or is to be welcomed as a new direction for human life. For Strickland, poetry shares with mathematics and code a "proclivity for extreme semantic condensation within a formalized language structure," and is thus her chosen instrument to track this enormous, increasingly invisible dragon-in-the-room stalking our time.

Dragon Logic (New Series, 58)

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