Egypt Author:Dawn Michelle Baude This work of poetry is the result of the year that Dawn Michelle Baude spent at the Karnak Temple in Luxor. In 1993-94 she was an associate of the Villa Medicis Hors Les Murs, which allowed her to complete this site-specific work. "Deploying a poetics of field and fragment, Dawn Baude explores the at once fugitive and urgent nature of encounter.... more » An exploratory lyricism investigates the trace and the remnant, the immediate and the undisclosed. The yield is a papyrus (an "egypt") of tones and microtones, colors and shadings, angles and dissolves for eye and ear." (Michale Palmer)« less