| Forgery Contributor(s): Hanafi, Amira (Author) |
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ISBN: 1450742122 ISBN-13: 9781450742122 Publisher: Green Lantern Press OUR PRICE: $19.00 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2011 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| Physical Information: 0.39" H x 5.2" W x 7.09" (0.26 lbs) 80 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Poetry. Limited Edition. Literary Nonfiction. Collaged from language collected using the obscure keyword Finkl--obituaries, case histories, old Chicago legends, gossip columns, political speeches and online posts--FORGERY is a lyrical essay on industrial and personal dislocation--a strange choreography of urban conquest and collapse--centered on a 130-year-old Chicago steel forge. Founded in 1879 by German immigrant Anton Finkl, A. Finkl & Sons Co. still operates today on Chicago's Near North Side. Last vestige of an industrial era, the company produces die forgings noisily and with a good deal of dirty emissions alongside one of the city's more affluent neighborhoods, where spas and plastic surgeons, shops for handmade cosmetics and luxury chocolates extend off one of the busiest commercial corridors in Chicago. Starting from this intersection of forces, the narrator embarks on a walk to the seven forgotten homes of the forge's founder, on the way meeting settlers, Indians, Bob Fosse and Richard Daley, gangsters, workers, a K-pop girl group, and a cast of other peculiar characters whose fused stories recount the multifarious history of an evolving city. Whether tied up at gunpoint in the garage of a basketball player or floating at the bottom of Lake Michigan, FORGERY revels in disorientation. Printed in an edition of 500 with silk screen covers by Crosshair and an introduction by Stephen Lapthisophon. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hanafi, Amira: - Amira Hanafi is a writer and artist using variable methods of research and collection to produce documentary objects. She is the author of Minced English, Trinities, Anaclasis, and FORGERY. |