Ana María Caballero invited fifty different people to read and annotate the same poem, performing their experience of its verse via hand-written marginalia.
Fifty Ways of Looking at a Poem celebrates the ways in which writers and readers construct each other. Readers give literature life within their minds, honoring words when they make them their own by leaving a mark.
The combined, iterative interventions in this series represent the collective evolution of readership. Language is universal—yet personal—and every reading pulls and pushes it forth.
All collectors receive digital copies of the hand-annotated works.
The top ten bidders will receive a new print of the poem, signed by Caballero, so that they may annotate it themselves and become participants in the project.
