Out of the Body Travel (1976)

A young woman who finds herself surrounded by the relics of Western culture is the subject of Richard Foremans formal tableaux The narration centers on a young womans struggle to find a relation between her body and her self as mediated by language The text is a poetry of formal relations that carries personal and historical implications including the desires of the woman paradoxically voiced by a male narrator The title suggests the vivid virtuality of dreaming scenes repeatedly refer to both reading and sleeping