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| URL of Work
| http://califia.us/Errand/title1a.htm
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| Title of Work
| Errand Upon Which We Came
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| Author
| Stephanie Strickland, M.D. Coverley
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| Year of Publication
| 2000
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| Language
| English
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| Description
| In Errand, animation is used to establish links and disjunctions between images of moving objects in the natural world (e.g. frogs and butterflies) and the lexical and figural dynamics of the poem. These visual-kinetic images heighten the tensions among the meaning-mobilizing acts of "seeing an image," "watching a movement," and "reading a word"; and insofar as these works also employ cursor-activated elements, between "touching" and "reading." Errand reflects on the nature of language and of reading, and these self-reflexive elements are embedded in considerations of how protocols of reading shape our consciousness. In calling attention to gaps between "movement" and "meaning," between "reading" and "acting," Errand grounds its kinetic poetics in concerns of ethics and cultural politics.
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| Additional Notes
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| The print text of this poem can be found in the Losing L'una section of Strickland's "V: WaveSon.nets/Losing L'una."
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