City Lights and Kelsey Street Press celebrate the publication of
IF AN ELSEWHERE (The Burrow)
by Jocelyn Saidenberg (text) and Cybele Lyle (art)
Published by Kelsey Street Press
Cybele Lyle, Jocelyn Saidenberg, and Erin Wilson in conversation
“Just as the visual language of abstraction began to feel exhausted, Cybele Lyle’s drawings show it is still possible for the graphic language of suggestive allusion to illuminate a densely intimate poetic text. Jocelyn Saidenberg’s nuanced ruminations express a precise personal algebra of moment-to-moment exchange while Lyle’s forms present embodied experience in which these tensions and pleasures play out. Few writers are as adept at exploring the complex intimacies of relationships in rigorously disciplined terms as Saidenberg.” –Johanna Drucker
Cybele Lyle is an award winning visual artist whose installation, video and 2D work explores place and identity by reconstructing her surrounding architecture, interior space and natural environment. She has held residencies at Ox-Bow, Project 387, Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Recology, and the Headlands Center for the Arts. Her works have been exhibited across the United States including at the 205 Hudson St Hunter Gallery, New York; Bemis Center, Omaha; Oakland Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; Orange County Museum of Art, and Et al. gallery, San Francisco, among others. Cybele is a recipient of the Kala Fellowship, the Yozo Hamaguchi Printmaking award, and the Tony Smith Award. Cybele currently lives in Los Angeles and is represented by Et al. Gallery in San Francisco.
Jocelyn Saidenberg is a writer, scholar, and teacher. She is the author of several collections of poetry and chapbooks, including Negativity (Atelos, 2009), Dead Letter (Roof, 2015), and kith & kin (The Elephants, 2018). If An Elsewhere (THE BURROW), a collaboration with visual artist Cybele Lyle, is forthcoming from Kelsey Street Press in 2024. She lives in San Francisco and is the founding editor of Krupskaya Books.
Erin Wilson is an editor at Kelsey Street Press.
Made possible by support from the City Lights Foundation