Compression: Jennifer Schomburg Kanke
“According to the theorist Michel de Certeau, art achieves its greatest impact by activating the greatest number of memory sets in the shortest amount of time. In my work, I attempt to not only compress and summarize the lives of the subjects being recorded but also to activate the reader’s own memory sets, achieving not only poem as literary experience but poem as lived experience as well.” — Jennifer Schomburg Kanke
