The Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing/We are Primary Colors Chapbook by Annie Won, Brenda Iijima, Marcy Rae Henry, and DoubleCross Press
Part of DoubleCross Press’ Bound Together series, where two manuscripts are paired together into a dos-à-dos chapbook.
The Center for Hierarchal Manufacturing - Annie Won & Brenda Iijima
“We found ourselves writing about chemistry while also really writing about gender while also really writing about race while also really writing about science’s insistence on formal taxonomies that impact sentience on every level. We went down every rabbit hole that appeared. We rode every unstable elevator up to the roof. We confronted our personal histories, then transmuted them. Along the way we met Lucy, Molly, Diana and Eve, etc. We reacquainted with our mothers, biological and otherwise. We encountered strictures and we broke through them to arrive at booby traps lingually, conceptually and psychically. We traveled through technicalities, beyond camp, beyond hysteria, into a region filled with laboratories brimming with emergent forms of presence and thinking. What we forged is a biotechnical fable of personhood.” -Annie Won & Brenda Iijima
We Are Primary Colors - Marcy Rae Henry
“We Are Primary Colors gathers urgent poems of political activism and solidarity, of travel, of lockdown, of selves present and selves left behind. Formally exuberant and communally engaged, Henry’s writing captures a seeking, restless intelligence that builds meaning by weaving between continents and between languages. Braiding memory with astute perception, these interlingual poems capture the anxieties and the beauties of twenty-first-century global citizenship.” - Marcy Rae Henry
8.75” x 5.5”
*Consignment item. Not eligible for 10% membership discount. All consignment purchases are final and non-refundable once shipped.
Part of DoubleCross Press’ Bound Together series, where two manuscripts are paired together into a dos-à-dos chapbook.
The Center for Hierarchal Manufacturing - Annie Won & Brenda Iijima
“We found ourselves writing about chemistry while also really writing about gender while also really writing about race while also really writing about science’s insistence on formal taxonomies that impact sentience on every level. We went down every rabbit hole that appeared. We rode every unstable elevator up to the roof. We confronted our personal histories, then transmuted them. Along the way we met Lucy, Molly, Diana and Eve, etc. We reacquainted with our mothers, biological and otherwise. We encountered strictures and we broke through them to arrive at booby traps lingually, conceptually and psychically. We traveled through technicalities, beyond camp, beyond hysteria, into a region filled with laboratories brimming with emergent forms of presence and thinking. What we forged is a biotechnical fable of personhood.” -Annie Won & Brenda Iijima
We Are Primary Colors - Marcy Rae Henry
“We Are Primary Colors gathers urgent poems of political activism and solidarity, of travel, of lockdown, of selves present and selves left behind. Formally exuberant and communally engaged, Henry’s writing captures a seeking, restless intelligence that builds meaning by weaving between continents and between languages. Braiding memory with astute perception, these interlingual poems capture the anxieties and the beauties of twenty-first-century global citizenship.” - Marcy Rae Henry
8.75” x 5.5”
*Consignment item. Not eligible for 10% membership discount. All consignment purchases are final and non-refundable once shipped.
Part of DoubleCross Press’ Bound Together series, where two manuscripts are paired together into a dos-à-dos chapbook.
The Center for Hierarchal Manufacturing - Annie Won & Brenda Iijima
“We found ourselves writing about chemistry while also really writing about gender while also really writing about race while also really writing about science’s insistence on formal taxonomies that impact sentience on every level. We went down every rabbit hole that appeared. We rode every unstable elevator up to the roof. We confronted our personal histories, then transmuted them. Along the way we met Lucy, Molly, Diana and Eve, etc. We reacquainted with our mothers, biological and otherwise. We encountered strictures and we broke through them to arrive at booby traps lingually, conceptually and psychically. We traveled through technicalities, beyond camp, beyond hysteria, into a region filled with laboratories brimming with emergent forms of presence and thinking. What we forged is a biotechnical fable of personhood.” -Annie Won & Brenda Iijima
We Are Primary Colors - Marcy Rae Henry
“We Are Primary Colors gathers urgent poems of political activism and solidarity, of travel, of lockdown, of selves present and selves left behind. Formally exuberant and communally engaged, Henry’s writing captures a seeking, restless intelligence that builds meaning by weaving between continents and between languages. Braiding memory with astute perception, these interlingual poems capture the anxieties and the beauties of twenty-first-century global citizenship.” - Marcy Rae Henry
8.75” x 5.5”
*Consignment item. Not eligible for 10% membership discount. All consignment purchases are final and non-refundable once shipped.
Annie Won (she/her) is a poet, yoga teacher, and a former medicinal chemist. Annie is particularly interested in spaces of mind, body, and page. She is a Kundiman Fellow and a Juniper Writing Institute scholarship recipient. Her chapbook with Brenda Iijima, Once Upon a Building Block, was published with Horse Less Press, and her chapbook, so i can sleep, is from Nous-Zot Press. Her work has appeared in Shampoo and RealPoetik, and is forthcoming from EAOGH, TheThePoetry, TENDE RLION, and New Delta Review. Her critical reviews can be seen at American Microreviews and Interviews.
Brenda Iijima (she/her) is a poet, novelist, playwright, choreographer, and visual artist. She is the author of nine books of poetry. Her current work engages submerged and occluded histories, other-than-human modes of expression, and telluric awareness in all forms. A play, Daily Life in China, is forthcoming from elis press in 2023, and a novel, Presence, is forthcoming from Georgia Review Press in 2024. A novella, A roundtable, unanimous dreamers chime in, written in collaboration with Janice Lee, was recently published by Meekling Press. Iijima is the founding editor-publisher of Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs. She lives in Brooklyn.
Marcy Rae Henry (she/her) is una Latina/e de Los Borderlands and a multidisciplinary artist. Her writing has received a Chicago Community Arts Assistance Grant, an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize nomination and first prize in Suburbia’s 2021 Novel Excerpt Contest. Her work will be included in the Best New Poets of 2023 anthology. Other writing and visual art appear in The Worcester Review, Mud Season Review, PANK, The Southern Review, Thimble Magazine and The Brooklyn Review, among others. M.R. Henry is an associate editor for RHINO and an associate professor of English and creative writing at Wilbur Wright College. For more than twenty years she has curated and co-curated poetic events for the City Colleges of Chicago and Chicagoland communities, including readings and performances for Red Rover Series and 100,000 Poets for Change. Though she is a digital minimalist with no social media accounts, she can be found at marcyraehenry.com and Poets&Writers.
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