Humans
- Anurak Saelaow (author)
- Emma Steinkraus (artist)
Page count
38Keywords
Poetry, Chapbook, Of Systems Of, Mind, Technology, Code, Coding, CoupletsPublication date
2015Language(s)
EnglishPublication media type
Print DocumentChapbook
Publication series
Unlimited EditionsSchema
“Schema is a book that gravitates toward the shimmering heat of the historical moment. This book accentuates the nerve center of pathos, the hardwiring of passion. Anurak Saelaow refocuses the pace and pulse on what is happening in the now, with dramatic results. This is a dynamite work that doesn’t rest. The jolt will recalibrate you.” — Brenda Iijima
Schema is a chapbook about desire. It revolves around the idea of the human brain as a mechanism, a processor, parsing the dreck of our everyday lives. In some sense it’s solipsistic, very lonely — a natural extension of the lyrical mode of thought, which is always focused on the self.
Each piece is constructed in two-line stanzas, an attempt to convey a sort of hesitance and stuttering, the recurring anxieties of the mind. The idea of false couplings — unexpected (but not unnatural) enjambments — and the notion of binary code also played a part in their formation. — Anurak Saelaow
About the Contributor(s)
Anurak Saelaow is a Singaporean undergraduate at Columbia University. Previously, his work has appeared in print and online, in journals such as the Quarterly Literary Review Singapore and Ceriph Magazine. He is currently a staff editor at Quarto Magazine.
Emma Steinkraus is a visual artist living in Iowa City. Her current obsessions include imagined apocalypses, witches and mushrooming; her recurrent obsession is with depictions of romantic love. Before moving to Iowa as an Iowa Arts Fellow in the Painting program, she studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art and at Williams College. She has received a Hubbard Hutchinson Fellowship, a Frederick M. Peyser Prize, worked as a Steamboat Scholar in Contemporary Curation at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, and completed residencies at the Henry Luce III Center for Arts and Religion and at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center.
