Zipper by Transformer Press
Zipper must be unzipped to read the text. As the title indicates the poem and book are about the characteristics of a zipper – its uses and connotations.
Zippers are "sexiest on the back of a dress a woman can’t do up on her own. She lifts the hair on her neck and arches her back while someone behind her slowly pulls the metal tag up over vertebra after vertebra to the top.” - Lise Melhorn-Boe
Processes, Dimensions, and Edition Information
Poem by Lorna Crozier
Kingston, Ontario, Canada: Transformer Press, 2018. Edition of 10.8 x 10"; 5 double pages, each with zipper in middle. Materials: zippers, fabric, thread, buttons. Screen printed. Cloth covers. Signed and numbered by the artist. Produced as a companion piece to an earlier book "Button." Both books were inspired by poems by Canadian poet Lorna Crozier.