RECENTER PRESS POETRY JOURNAL
Issue Four.
Cye And Their Offerings (I)
BY ALEXANDRA GORDON.
BY ALEXANDRA GORDON.
"Owners"
BY MICHAEL BEGNAL.
"Nativelanding"
BY YUAN CHANGMING.
"Some Categories Arrive At Their Precision Through Ambiguity"
BY SIMON CRAFTS.
"Standing Rock"
BY JOHN DAVIS.
"A Few Nights Under the Moonlight in Bahia"
BY DORIANA DIAZ.
Cye And Their Offerings (II)
BY ALEXANDRA GORDON.
BY ALEXANDRA GORDON.
"OHIO LANDSCAPE (July 16th, 2020)"
BY DARREN C. DEMAREE.
"the urchin" and "a gift for the end times"
BY MAIJA ELIZABETH EKEY.
"Tehran Kitchen"
BY ELAHEH FARMAND.
"our" and "three meditations"
BY JACOB FOWLER.
"a mariachi prophet foretold my death & now my hungers must be heard"
BY EMILIA HAMRA.
Tachlis (I)
BY ALEXANDRA GORDON.
BY ALEXANDRA GORDON.
"what will the death of what"
BY BLAKE HURZELER.
"G*d Could Not be Everywhere; Therefore Made Mothers"
BY NICOLE MITCHELL.
from "Works & Days"
BY GINA MYERS.
"bananas"
BY ANGEL NALUBEGA.
"Workers' State"
BY TERRA OLIVEIRA.
Tachlis (II)
BY ALEXANDRA GORDON.
BY ALEXANDRA GORDON.
"gap year"
BY MAYA RENAUD-LEVINE.
"Silence Does Not Mean Things Are Ending"
BY SAM SLUPSKI.
"SWIRL"
BY BRANDI SPERING.
"Intravenous"
BY JONATHON TODD.
"drifting" and "addressing cosmic bodies"
BY ALEX B. WASALINKO.
Tachlis (III)
BY ALEXANDRA GORDON.
BY ALEXANDRA GORDON.
Alexandra Gordon is a visual artist from Philadelphia, PA. Gordon is a senior currently studying Behavioral Health Counseling at Drexel University, and is pursuing a graduate degree in Art Therapy. Gordon’s work focuses mostly on Jewish identity, material significance, and connection through storytelling.
"And Their Offerings" was created from an idea in Gordon’s zine from 2017, Personals, which used people’s most beloved objects to describe them juxtaposed with a Craigslist-type personal to create a visual diptych of person and objects. Using a similar method of visual storytelling, "And Their Offerings" uses portraiture and objects to explore personal symbolism, permanency, and the capturing of “afterlife objects” people would bring with them to the spiritual beyond. "Tachlis" explores the artist’s connection to Jewish identity through traditional and nontraditional symbolism. Objects relating uniquely to both Gordon’s experience as a Jewish person, as well as the ways these objects are understood and reproduced throughout the culture is explored as part of this piece. You can find more of their work at alexandragordon.work, and you can follow them on Instagram @alexandra___gordon. |