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Taking its title from Shakespeare’s Othello, a play that questions the veracity of what eyes actually see, Ocular Proof explores not only what each of us sees, but also how photographs modify sight as they capture, distort, frame, and simultaneously encourage discovery. These poems play off critical insights about the function of photographs and the power of visual imagery in the modern world and yet are decidedly personal. They address the unreality of one’s own life, the illegibility of the past and future, and our strong attraction to focused details such as “Kertesz photographing stairs extending past the small figure and out of sight.”

MARTHA RONK is the author of 11 books of poetry, including Transfer of Qualities, long-listed listed for the National Book Award, and Vertigo, winner of the National Poetry Series. She has won a National Endowment Grant and the Lynda Hull Poetry Award. She has been a faculty member at Occidental College in Los Angeles and during fall 2015 at Otis College of Art and Design.