Humans
- Rachel Zolf (author)
- Heidi Reszies (artist)
Page count
50Keywords
America, United States, United States of America, US, USA, Government, Politics, Racism, White Supremacy, History, Archive, Dictionary, Definition, Political, Prose, Historical DocumentPublication date
2019Language(s)
EnglishPublication media type
Digital DocumentChapbook
Publication series
Digital Chapbook SeriesThe American Policy Player’s Guide and Dream Book
The American Policy Player’s Guide and Dream Book takes as its source an 1892 publication of the same name. The author writes: “Instead of recopying as supposedly neutral ideological representation, I chose entries by feel, thinking of the Amerikkkkan nightmare as I went along. Then I went over it once more.”
About the Contributor(s)
Rachel Zolf’s writing and other artwork tends to queerly enact how ethics founders on the shoals of the political. Their five books of poetry include Janey’s Arcadia, Neighbour Procedure, and Human Resources, all from Coach House Books, and a Selected Poetry is forthcoming. Films Zolf has written and/or directed have shown internationally at such venues as White Cube Bermondsey, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, and the Wexner Center for the Arts. Their work has won a Pew Fellowship in the Arts and a Trillium Book Award for Poetry and been a finalist for two Lambda Literary Awards, among other honors. Zolf lives in Philadelphia and is nearing completion of a theoretical text called A Language No One Speaks: The Dangerous Perhaps of Monstrous Witness.
Heidi Reszies is a poet/transdisciplinary artist living in Richmond, Virginia. Her visual art is included in the National Museum of Women in the Arts CLARA Database of Women Artists. She teaches letterpress printing at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts, and is the creator/curator of Artifact Press. Her poetry collection titled Illusory Borders is forthcoming from The Operating System in 2019. Her collection titled Of Water & Other Soft Constructions was selected by Samiya Bashir as the winner of the Anhinga Press 2018 Robert Dana Prize for Poetry (forthcoming in 2019). Find her at heidireszies.com.
