He will rise up in vain to pound inside dark meanings where they know he is still without understanding. He heard the crash right there beside facts. But no. It wasn’t a dream. Presently the painting seemed willing to normal. He preferred not to strike the song until he surveyed the long suspected melody. Birds dart upward, here as there.
Picked up this book last month at a visual poetry exhibit (Donato Mancini, Christian Bok, Mariana Roy) in Vancouver. Composed over ten years ago, published on-line and in print by Coach House Books about ten years ago, the work continues to crackle (in part because of the superb print work, sharp, solid blacks on good paper).
Here's the Coach House blurb: "At long last, this double-barrelled collection of visual poetry, sensory deprivation and dream poetics, by damian lopes is now in print. Considered visual essays by the author, sensory deprivation explores the visual noise and overload of contemporary culture, while dream poetics offers an argument for a poetics in this culture."
You can peruse it on-line at http://www.damianlopes.com/sensorydeprivation/
I hear Stravinsky stripped down, Cage, Terry Riley. I see...That I can't put a name on it names itself.
NEW PAGESIn a switch on the normal All Hallows' Eve tradition, the someone who's come knocking at your door is bringing you candy. No tricks, just treats. Issue 15, the southern spring 2009 issue, of Otoliths has just gone live, & has in its basket a wondrous variety of text & visuals—sometimes both—from Ray Craig, Crag Hill, Andrew Topel, Jeff Harrison, James Mc Laughlin, Bob Heman, Arpine Konyalian Grenier, Tyler Flynn Dorholt, Philip Byron Oakes, Chris Gordon, Louise Norlie, Donald Dunbar & Andrew Lundwall, Raymond Farr, Márton Koppány, Halvard Johnson, Kathleen Rooney, Rodger Lowenthal, Travis Macdonald, John J. Trause, Kat Dixon, John M. Bennett, Baron & John M. Bennett, Sheila E. Murphy & John M. Bennett, Robert van Vliet, Cecelia Chapman & Jeff Crouch, Yoko Danno, Charles Clifford Brooks III, j/j hastain, Daniel f Bradley, Tim Marcuson, Michael Brandonisio, Lance Newman, Adam Katz, Andy Martrich, Jeff Klooger, Yonah Korngold, John Martone, Bill Drennan, Karri Kokko, David Berridge, Ira Joel Haber, Marcia Arrieta, Martin Edmond, Andrew Topel & John M. Bennett, Felino Soriano, Jal Nicholl, Ed Baker, Tony Rickaby, Sam Schild, Paul Siegell, Tom Beckett, Grzegorz Wróblewski, David-Baptiste Chirot, Jon Curley, sean burn, Tim Kahl, Mara Patricia Hernandez, PD Mallamo, Carlyle Baker, Bobbi Lurie, John Moore Williams, Dominic Amerena, & Spencer Selby.
A new chapbook of collaborative writing by Nico Vassilakis and Robert Mittenthal from tir aux pigeons. http://tir-aux-pigeons.blogspot.com/
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edited by Lance Olsen, Karen Brennan,
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