WHISPERS IN A SUMMER MEADOW / NOISE WHILE SEARCHING FOR THE WORD / PREEMPTIVELY TO PARSE
Conceptual art by Federico Federici and poem by Heikki Huotari
PUBLISHED IN PHANTOM KANGAROO: ISSUE 25
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Federico Federici
WHISPERS IN A SUMMER MEADOW
NOISE WHILE SEARCHING FOR THE WORD
Federico Federici is a conceptual artist working in the fields of writing, video art, installations and physics. His works have appeared in international journals and anthologies including 3:AM Magazine, Art in America, Diagram, Jahrbuch der Lyrik, Poet Lore, Sand, The Manhattan Review and others. Among his books: “Liner notes for a Pithecanthropus Erectus sketchbook” (2018), “A private notebook of winds” (2019), “Transcripts from demagnetized tapes” (2021), “Lettere d’amore a Peter Rabbit” curated by Paolo Giovannetti (2021), “Profilo Minore” curated by Andrea Cortellessa (2021).
Heikki Huotari
PREEMPTIVELY TO PARSE
In a past century Heikki Huotari attended a one-room school and spent summers on a forest-fire lookout tower. He’s a retired math professor and has published poems in numerous literary journals, including Spillway, the American Journal of Poetry and Willow Springs. His fourth collection, “Deja Vu Goes Both Ways”, won the Star 82 Press Book Award.