Innovative Formats > A Passage
The poet Edmond Jabès, who Buzz Spector invokes in his writing here, was inspired, as Spector describes himself to be, by a Rabbinic approach to text that pays close attention to how words are laid out on the page.
Spector alters this book by tearing multiple copies of a single printed page to create unexpected surfaces. The tears stretch the text to the limit of legibility, creating a texture reminiscent of wind ripples on desert sand, and a text block that is triangular, not rectangular, when viewed from the side.