J.I. Kleinberg
the U.S.
Manifest
The plundering
We who walk
what is courage
Artist Statement
These visual poems are from an ongoing series of nearly three thousand collages built from phrases created through the happenstance of magazine page design. Each contiguous fragment of text is entirely removed from its original sense and syntax and is meant to be read as a poetic line. The text is not altered (except for the occasional deletion of prefixes, suffixes, or punctuation) and includes no attributable phrases. The lines of each collage are, in most cases, sourced from different magazines. The words I find tend to reflect what’s uppermost in my mind at the moment I’m looking, hence this collection.
J.I. Kleinberg lives in Bellingham, Washington, USA, and on Instagram @jikleinberg. Chapbooks of her visual poems, How to pronounce the wind (Paper View Books) and Desire’s Authority (Ravenna Press Triple Series No. 23), were published in 2023; a full length volume, She needs the river (Poem Atlas), was published in 2024. All of We is forthcoming from Anhinga Press.
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Banner Art:
Gable and Apples, Alfred Stieglitz, 1922, Art Institute of Chicago
