{"product_id":"the-writer-paperback","title":"The Writer - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAna Hatherly\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Writer (O Escritor)\u003c\/em\u003e Ana Hatherly's collection of visual and asemic work returns us to the subversive potential of the hand and its ability to unsettle and reorient language, speech, and expression. With its commitment to writer and reader as fellow travelers and to new visionary possibilities for the written word, \u003cem\u003eThe Write\u003c\/em\u003er is a landmark in the history of visual poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e30 images play on the movement of letters into and beyond language. The images invite the reader to engage with the text and the written form as it manifests through images, as material of plastic arts, as textual language expressed visually taken from the utterance of the mouth and transformed into narratives not possible with grammar. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Writer (O Escritor)\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of visual poems, asemic expressions, and lettrist experiments exploring what is possible when the evocative capacity of language is given expression beyond the imposition of grammatical order, social transcriptions, or cultural restrictions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot only does \u003cem\u003eThe Writer (O Escritor)\u003c\/em\u003e expand our limited understanding of \u003cem\u003ewriting\u003c\/em\u003e, and illuminate the potential of Hatherly's vibrant hand beautifully unfolding across various pictograms, but it also builds upon all the obsessions of one of the 20th century's most fascinating Portuguese poets. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFifty years since its first publication, \u003cem\u003e The Writer (O Escritor)\u003c\/em\u003e, originally printed by the Portuguese publishing house Moraes Editores in 1975, reprinted by Hysterical Books, is a landmark in the history of visual poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 64\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.17 x 10 x 7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 11, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43926768713863,"sku":"9780940821347","price":21.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/pUDVhK1rmi9780940821347.webp?v=1771447662","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-writer-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}