Lines Crossed Out

On April 13th, 2005, I did a reading at Zeke's Gallery as part of a launch celebration for three chapbooks published by Delirium Press. The chapbook I was launching is called Lines Crossed Out, and contains some short poems based on the writings of Victorian critic John Ruskin, a long poem (titled the same as the book) about writing a dissertation chapter on Ruskin while experiencing homesickness through the art of Betty Goodwin, plus a cluster or images, some of them documentary of stuff surrounding the long poem, and many of them reproductions of stunning artworks by Betty Goodwin that I had seen her working on when I visited her studio a variety of times in the 1990s. It's a lovely little chapbook, and I just recently noticed that local Bolduc-drinker Zeke has posted a recording of the reading on his web site. So, if you weren't there, and would like to hear a record of the live (April 13th, 2005) reading of Lines Crossed Out, go to Zeke's Gallery.

Here's the website for Delirium Press, the people who assembled and hand-sewed it.

And here are a few images that appear in the chapbook:





Rooted Like A Wedge
by Betty Goodwin













Beyond Chaos I
by Betty Goodwin


















Deucalion Crossed Out (Treated Ruskin Text)
by Jason Camlot
















Iris Of The Earth Crossed Out (Treated Ruskin Text)
by Jason Camlot