Joni Tevis: 2 books
The Wet Collection
A Field Guide to Iridescence and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Using such models as Joseph Cornell’s box constructions, crazy quilts, and specimen displays,Joni Tevis places fragments in relationship to each other in order to puzzle out lost histories,particularly those of women. Navigating the peril and excitement of outward journeyscomplicated by an inward longing...
The World Is on Fire
Scrap, Treasure, and Songs of Apocalypse
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
The sermons of Joni Tevis’ youth filled her with dread, a sense that an even worse story-one you hadn’t read yet-could likewise come true.” In this revelatory collection, she reckons with her childhood fears by exploring the uniquely American fascination with apocalypse. From a haunted widow’s...