Swan Song

Swan Song is the final chapter on a body of cut-and-paste work that is difficult to categorize but has sometimes been referred to as "graphic poetry." Culled from decades of hunting and gathering in the underground, Ahlers has filled many binders to overflowing. The book revisits the black and white photocopier esthetic of her genre-bending and influential book Temper, Temper and its sequel Fatal Distraction. Swan Song finally completes this groundbreaking trilogy.

Part art book, part zine collection, part diary, part graphic novel, but all Sonja Ahlers, we finally have closure from an artist who continues to push the boundaries of what a book can be.