Agrippa

The mechanism: stamped black tin,
Leatherette over cardboard, bits of boxwood,
A lens
The shutter falls
Forever
Dividing that from this.

Agrippa (a book of the dead) appeared in 1992 as a collaboration between artist Dennis Ashbaugh, author William Gibson, and publisher Kevin Begos, Jr. The Agrippa Files is an online archive of the book, including pages from the book and a huge collection of related material. The full text of the poem Gibson wrote for the book can be found on his website.

Posted in Textism on Wednesday December 14, 2005.