Jennifer Martenson. Xq28 (1) Provid...

Jennifer Martenson. Xq28 (1) Providence, RI: Burning embellish Press, 2001.

Martenson's novel chapbook is a series of footnotes to an absent subject Set below the footnote line, her metrical compositions may be read according to sum of two units numerical systems: by priority of page order or by dint of priority of notation arrangement. In the case of the latter, many note-poems interrupt themselves in order to attribute to other note-poems, forming a "spidery mass" of interconnections, which requires the reader to stir back and forth within the volume as she navigates through a tangled semantic system with random