“Poetry in action with participation,” is how artist and musician Yoko Ono describes her new book of “instructional poetry” – the first she has published solo in almost 50 years.
Acorn, according to New York-based independent publisher OR Books, is an extension of the “intricate strands” Ono first wove together in Grapefruit, the “book of instructions and drawings” she published in 1964. The book, which comes out in June, is “classic Yoko”, said the publisher, “full of intriguing and surreal exercises [which invite] the reader to uncover profound and often complex truths, in words and imagery that are playful and accessible”.
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