can't eat for that, you can't eat for that

John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, published in 1937 is a polemic on the exploitation of migrant workers. The story follows the Jode Family as they go in search of work and a new life California following the devastation of their farmland in Oklahoma.

My adaptations of existing novels explores some of the powerful themes that stay with readers. And my process of distillation whilst deleting much of the original, draws attention to the devises and repetition used by authors and simultaneously allows new poetic forms to emerge.

This distilled version Steinbeck's text reveals only his repeated and often visceral descriptions of the preparation and consumption of food, food which becomes scarcer and less nutritious as the narrative unfolds. By removing all other content from the book, an abundance of white space has been created, an emptiness which might be read in a number of ways.

Title: Can't eat for that, you can't eat for that.
Published through AND public
Edition: 500 POD publication
Material: perfect bound, paper back with ink jet printed dust jacket Year: 2014 - Sale
Price £25

Collected by: The Chelsea Art Library, The Saison Poetry Library at the South Bank Centre London; and in the US, The Clark Institute; Joan Flasch Collection (SAIC); Yale; Lafayette; Swarthmore and MoMA