Walden Marginalia


Walden Marginalia is an exploration of annotation in Walden. With

the original text withheld, the margin notes of past readers come to the forefront. The accompanying essay serves as a commentary on reading habits and impulses, assumptions about nature writing and learning, and the lingering effects of Thoreau’s classic work.

 

BIO

 

Amelia Bird was an Iowa Arts Fellow at the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program and is currently a student in the University of Iowa’s Center for the Book and a resident at the Women’s Studio Workshop. Combining her writing with structure and images in artist's books, Amelia explores the intersections of place and imagination.

 

 


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