Terri Witek
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Books

  • #12: copies: I loved you in the hard old way by
  • Newsers
  • SOMETHING’S MISSING IN THIS MUSEUM
  • The Rattle Egg by Terri Witek
  • WAAVe Global Anthology of Women’s Asemic Writing and Visual Poetry
  • Judith: Women Making Visual Poetry
  • Poesia Visual 5
  • The Rape Kit
  • Body Switch
  • First Shot At Fort Sumter / Possum
  • Exit Island
  • The Shipwreck Dress
  • Carnal World
  • Fools & Crows
  • Robert Lowell & Life Studies

Recent Work

  • Teaching with Cyriaco Lopes at the Hand Art Center ( June 2024 MFA residency at Stetson University)
  • Beyond the Illegible on Boundary Ave
  • Exit Island featured at show at The Liminal
  • ARCO Madrid
  • ARCO Madrid
  • Collaboration with Amaranth Borsuk

Caravela with Two Lines by Fernando Pessoa

from Exit Island

Cresce a vinda da lua    (but what is gained by the moon’s return?)
Teu corpo, teu limite.    
     
When will o rio dovetail nas ruas   and which ainda arrives too soon?
Cresce a vinda da lua    
     
While the drunken dogwatch pities   another far-off monsoon,
Teu corpo, teu limite.    
     
Something pulls against day’s patois.   Something restrings the body’s loom.
Cresce a vinda da lua.    
     
Who would leave your side for comfort?   Who would row against the moon?
Teu corpo, teu limite.    
     
Tudo cresce, tudo pity   tudo rua, tudo moon
all is body, all is rowing,   all notation is natação
     

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