Interlaced with the thinking of William James, Alfred Whitehead, and John Cage, this essay picks up textile artist Anni Albers’ central consideration—the voice of the thread—as a poetic experiment in listening otherwise.
Claire Dauge-Roth is a francophone poet, scholar, and textile artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work circles textures of memory-sound, materialities of translation, and what it means to know; as a PhD student of comparative literature she focuses on abstract language. She is an archival fellow at the Center for Humanities Lost & Found researching Anni Albers’ textiles as kinetic poetics, and a fellow at World Poetry Press. Recently, her poems can be found in 3 Sisters Literary, Antiphony Magazine, and The Queens Review. Abracadabrant is her favorite word.