Little Dead Rabbit Social Poetics

Little Dead Rabbit Social PoeticsAstrid Alben, with Zigmunds Lapsa Little Dead Rabbit is a collaboration between poet Astrid Alben and visual artist and designer Zigmunds Lapsa, a book length poem with die cut stencil images throughout. During the lockdown of 2020 21, Alben and Lapsa worked closely together on this book length poem that is part adult fairy tale, part concrete poem about a little dead rabbit the poet found on the verge of a road. Ostensibly a poem about death, the

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