Innovative Ouvert Oeuvre: Openings Book Explores Post-Pandemic World

With poems by Adeena Karasick and visualization by Warren Lehrer, publishers Lavender Ink describe Ouvert Oeuvre: Openings as "an ecstatically wrought exploration of openings in a (never quite) post-Covid world. 

This is the first collaborative book between poet, performer and cultural theorist Karasick and designer/author/vis lit pioneer Warren Lehrer who has a track record of producing work which melds books, typography, animation, and performance. In the title poem and Touching in the Wake of the Virus, Lehrer choreographs Karasick’s words on the stage of the page through typographic compositions, or as the publishers put it "track the trepidations and celebrations of openings read through socio-economic, geographic and bodily space."

Lehrer says his aim is that together, the writing and visuals engage the reader to become an active participant in the experience/performance of the work. The book comes with a soundtrack recording (via QR code) of Karasick reading the poems with music composed and performed by Grammy award-winning composer and trumpet player, Sir Frank London