BREAD AND WATER by Alison Knowles

Left Hand Books, 1995, First edition, 70 pp., 5" X 10 3/4", Softcover Near fine While baking bread, Knowles became fascinated by the cracks, bumps and depressions in the bread's surface and began photocopying the loaves. Studying them she noticed that the patterns resembled waterways - rivers and lakes. She collected maps and began finding river systems that matched the patterns in her bread. These created templates to edit words and phrases - a cut-up poetry of sorts - from literary and naturalist sources.Annual high density valuables travel the motor roadSediments clearly express the rapids of white waterWeathered diversity enhanced by micronutrientsNarrows or Pongos no less missionary the little steamerLewis and brother-in-law to Matthew slave and wealth the rubberBackwater latex trade expands three million milesThe book features reproductions of the prints she made of the bread, alongside the resulting poems.