Not a Snake

In this new collaboration between artist Simon Carr and poet Leonard Schwartz, risk, beauty, mortality and relation seek out some equation by way of the delirium that accompanies the presence of a certain creature. Following on their earlier book, Salamander: A Bestiary, also from Chax Press, Carr and Schwartz posit that all things are nonselfidentical and that here, color is all. " It isn' t a snake,/Its soil and soul in a chthonian coil... That is no snake, it' s the sun coming out/From behind several barricades." About Carr and Schwartz' s collaborations, Hyperallergic has written that " the two are syncopated in their respect for the otherness of our animal familiars."