7.6 x 7.6 inches. Letterpress gold foil stamping, die cutting, and assembly by Boxcar Press in Syracuse, NY.

Based on the Soochow Astronomical Chart of 1193, this planisphere depicts the Chinese night sky as seen from the northern hemisphere. To view the stars, turn the disc to align the desired date with the hour of night. Face south and hold the planisphere overhead with the corner marked North facing north. The map will reveal a celestial poem that awaits you among the asterisms. Let the eyes wanter and read aloud to someone dear.

(Copyright © 2021 by Monica Ong, Published by Proxima Vera, Trumbull, CT) Poetry, typesetting, and design by Monica Ong.

Monica Ong is a visual poet and the author of Silent Anatomies (2015), selected by Joy Harjo as winner of the Kore Press First Book Award in poetry. A Kundiman poetry fellow and MFA graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, Ong innovates on text+image to surface hidden narratives of women and diaspora, blurring the boundaries of art and literature. Ong's practice of poetry off the page takes shape in public engagements that bring a wide range of cultural groups and disciplines together in exhibitions, readings, and community conversations at the intersection of poetry and science.
Ong's poetry installations have been featured in exhibitions from New York's Center for Book Arts to the University of Arizona Poetry Center. Poetry broadsides and selected book arts from Silent Anatomies were recently acquired by the Collection of American Literature at the Yale Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. You can find her visual poetry in Permafrost Magazine, Breakwater Review, Waxwing Magazine, and forthcoming in Poetry Magazine and Scientific American. Based in Connecticut, she serves as the User Experience Designer at the Yale Digital Humanities Laboratory.

This item was kindly donated by Monica Ong

Artist Website: http://monicaong.com

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