Brian Lehrer on WNYC and for our last few minutes today, some of you know my

brother, the widely acclaimed author and designer Warren Lehrer, considered a

pioneer in the field of visual literature. Some of his books are in the

permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Getty and Los Angeles, the

Pompidue Center in Paris, the Tate in London, and elsewhere. The New York Times

wrote that in Warren's books, words take on thoughts very form, bringing

sensory experience to the reader as directly as ink on paper can allow. And once

considered too far ahead of his time, now the times are beginning to catch up to

him, that from the New York Times. Most of Warren's books are written and

designed by him alone, but he sometimes works with poets to set their words

visually on the page. He was last on the show in 2019 for the book Five Oceans

in a Teespoon with the poet and San Francisco radio host, who some of you may

listen to, Dennis Bernstein. And so it is with his latest book, a collaboration

with the poet and cultural theorist, Adina Kurasik. The book consists of two

poems that Adina wrote that relate to the sometimes awkward period that were in

emerging from the worst of the pandemic, but how and how much. The two poems which

are also the title of the book are, Over, Irvra, openings, and touching in the

wake of the virus. The book is out today from Lavender Inc. And there will be a

book launch event open to the public tonight at the Center for Book Arts on

West 27th Street. Adina is the author of 14 books of poetry and as a frequent

presence on the poetry scene here in New York, as some of you know, and

internationally. She's currently the poet laureate of the Institute of General

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