20, ~ Jennifer Roche's Reworking of the Underwater Classic

Cover art: Leah Angstman

“I saw a single canoe floating in open promise filled with midas-ears, ordinary shells / What is discovery? but the contemplation of our treasure”

20,

is a multimedia collection

of erasure poems

by Jennifer Roche

and fragmented illustrations

(composed as quadtychs)

by Hosho McCreesh

forces the imagination

to be at work,

to fill in the empty spaces,

to zoom out

of the surrounding frames.

Released through

Alternating Current Press,

it's a wondrous work

that uses 20,000 Leagues

as source material

and runs with it,

does it justice,

making its own

unique voyage

for the ages.

“icebergs clad with fur defied their death.”