Title Page:
Pressing Questions
by China Marks
p. 1-2
Would You Rather
An Adder
Bit Your Dad
or Your Mom?
pp. 3-4
Is it Sick or Silly
To Picnic on a Tomb?
pp. 5-6
Can Someone Mad—Really Bad—
Ever Find a Proper Home?
pp. 7-8
Is There Laughter
In the Hereafter
Or only Gloom?
Written in doggerel instead of free verse, with substantial visual imagery joined to a text made up of fancy type appropriated from fabric, variously ornamented and altered, in combination with invented letters.
Title Page:
Pressing Questions
by China Marks
p. 1-2
Would You Rather
An Adder
Bit Your Dad
or Your Mom?
pp. 3-4
Is it Sick or Silly
To Picnic on a Tomb?
pp. 5-6
Can Someone Mad—Really Bad—
Ever Find a Proper Home?
pp. 7-8
Is There Laughter
In the Hereafter
Or only Gloom?
Pressing Questions, 2010
18 x 15 inches closed,
18 x 30.5 inches open.
Fabric, thread, lace, screen-printing ink, Jade glue, fusible adhesive, Beva, industrial felt.
