Chair - Auden Lincoln-Vogel

Chair contains a collection of eight concrete poems that the author submitted to the New Yorker over the years, complete with their respective cover letters and responses. This iterative submission practice began in 2016 and continued across a pandemic, with the shifts of time passing evident through the book in the author’s changing addresses and the New Yorker’s changing editors.

Chair is a carefully taxonomised and collected memory of a single thread within the vast and knotted red tape of the bureaucracy and institutionality that encircles modern poetry as practice and as industry, and a question of what poetry is, what it can be, and how we can imagine beyond power. It’s also just extremely funny.

AUTHOR

Auden Lincoln-Vogel is an Iowa-based filmmaker. You can view more of his work here.