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Buttonhook Press 2023 Chapbook Series
Poetry: All forms & styles

Anne Whitehouse

BEING RUTH ASAWA

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Untitled twisted wire wall hanging by Ruth Asawa

 

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About the writer:
Anne Whitehouse’s most recent poetry collection is OUTSIDE FROM THE INSIDE (Dos Madres Press, 2020), and her most recent chapbook is ESCAPING LEE MILLER (Ethel Zine and Micro Press, 2021). She is also the author of a novel, FALL LOVE.

About Ruth Asawa:
Ruth Aiko Asawa (January 24, 1926 – August 5, 2013) was an important American modernist sculptor. Her work is permanently housed in collections at the Guggenheim Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. Several of Asawa’s wire sculptures are on permanent display in San Francisco’s de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park. Several of her fountains are located in public places in San Francisco.

Image: Untitled sculpture by  Ruth Asawa (1926-2013). Wall-mounted tied wire, An open-center six-pointed star with six branches. Circa 1967. (Showcased at the David Zwirner Gallery, 2017.) By free license.

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