DESERT TILES
by Mike Corrao
ISBN 978-1-9996964-3-6Paperback, 230pp
Publication date: September 2021
Equus Press: London
Price: € 12.00 (not including postage)
DESERT TILES brings a fresh spin on the "Corraoesque" theme of text/image coming "alive", becoming a "semiotic organism," undertaken here via the twin metaphors of text as a desert and reading as necromancy. The desert here is both literal (as the ever-shifting "dune-script" of meaning) and a place "deserted", a place of the always-already absent voice, into which the reader is invited to venture out. Reading as necromancy entails summoning the voice of the absent/"dead" author, communing with the past action(s) of signification and by decoding it, yielding messages for (some kind of) the future.
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