Abu Dhabi-based poet and artist Jill Magi furnishes SPEECH, her new book-length poem published earlier this month, with layered textures of language, subject, and object, calling at the delineations of border and sending her subject through them. That subject, however, "won't be indexed precisely," Magi asserts in the books appendix, "Painting a bibliography."  She asserts further that SPEECH is as much an archive, of painting-- of movement-- of place, as it is a poetic engagement. In the interest of highlighting that pervasive materiality of this new text, Jill Magi has given us a photographic opening into the creative spaces…

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