Poetry. "After having read John M. Bennett's poetry almost daily for 20 plus years, you would think I would have something very definite to say about it, but if there's one thing I've learned from reading it all these years, is that things can chang...
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Poetry. "This is an epic poem of that eldritch troubling time, issuing from a vast swarming archaeology as it might have been. Discover a land in which history, legend, death, language, and the world itself are otherwise than even if we think it, wh...
Poetry. This is a long-form collaborative visual poem which includes a dialogue between at least 2 voices and one or more crows, on themes of consciousness, time, place, and friendship. As the authors say in their introduction: "The combination psyc...
Poetry. Art. "Duchamp's Nude came eddying down the staircase carrying a chessboard & some sort of dictionary. 'Your move,' she said. I started with 'angular.' She won in less than ten moves. Kept on winning. Even when I painted the board red she bea...
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Is Structuralism a useful tool for engaging with the new visual poetry? Thomas Hibbard thinks so and this book is the fascinating and thoughtful result. As Jim Leftwich says in his Afterword, thinking about visual poetry...
Poetry. Written mostly in English, with some poems in Spanish, or mixtures of the two languages, Bennett's new book, with its multiple voices and forms, including some visual works, continues to challenge or befuddle the tired, cliché-ridden world o...
Poetry. Latinx Studies. "Jim Leftwich's transmutations (not translations) of the poetry of César Vallejo are nothing short of brilliant. They feel more Vallejo in English than any previous translations ever have. Vallejo is certainly, bar none, amon...
Poetry. Text in Spanish. En Español.y poseemos nomás la mente vacía del horizontesílabas pneumáticas! bailadoras go-go! no me digas nada más porque me faltan orejasesto aquí es blanco y eso otro es blancoy puesto en cima del volcán Popocatepetlel bl...
Poetry. "Poetry" in many experimental or avant modes and voices, and in a mix of languages, sounds, and visualities. John M. Bennett practices a true yet new trans-linguistic art, which is at the same time deeply embedded in language and its history...
Poetry. "As one proceeds through ARTHUR DIES FIRST CHRONICLE VOL.2 familiar characters, such as Merlin or Vivienne, are encountered beyond the reach of common language, in a world of divinations and sepulchers, in domains where chaotic punctuation a...
Poetry. "If you are new to surrealism, do not look for temporal narratives, grammatical English constructs, or linear development in FRAGMENTS FROM A GONE WORLD. Rather find a quiet chair alone, kick back, and let these images diffuse, expand, pulse...
Poetry. "This is a collection of free-wheeling improvisational linked poems written by Steve Dalachinsky & Yuko Otomo in a collaborative process. Non-Italic lines indicate Dalachinsky's writing and Italic lines indicate Otomo's. The front cover coll...
Poetry. "Jake Berry, visionary of the present, bringing the present back to us from its mutated nightmare future. Rescuing the past from a fictional present built on nostalgia for a fictional past. In fragments of aphorisms. In small zen-like storie...
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. This 3rd volume of Jim Leftwich's unique and ground-breaking examination of the explosion of marginal literatures can also be seen, like the first 2, as an example of that literature. It has an enormous variety of approa...
Poetry. John M. Bennett's poetry encapsulates the chaos characterizing our experience of and in this world, giving it a form and presence in words, phonemes, languages, and metaphor so compact and multi-meaningful, so ambiguous, that his poems glitt...