I, Coleoptile

Ann Cotton has written her first comprehensive collection of poems in English for which she also collaborated with the Austrian artist Kerstin Cmelka. The end result is a beautifully crafted book in which poems on the theme of 'emergence' are alternated with black and white photos that evoke scenes from the popular 1918 Soviet film The Lady and the Hooligan. Cotten plays multiple registers at once: from philosophical-symbolic and mystical, to the contemporary reality of the Internet and pop songs. No genuine human feeling is passed over in the process.