Poetry. "Poetry makes things happen, makes us happy, makes us happy by making things happen. Concoct meanings as you wish, sort and sift them at your pleasure, discard them in the end and simply (which in context means complexly) enjoy the machinery...
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Poetry. Latinx Studies. Avant garde. "With the words 'I am become something more than myself' Iván Argüelles opens the third of these 100 sonnets. This describes his entire body of work, but in these poems we find the poet pursuing that 'something m...
Poetry. Jim Leftwich's I REMEMBER PETROLEUM, is a single long poem of 391 cantos or a series of 391 poems, both structures are valid, that can be read or experienced as a vast mirror in which you will see yourself and the world which is your matrix....
Poetry. Collage. "At the end of THE HOUSE OF GRAND FAREWELLS, Bob Heman explains the methodology he used in creating these marvelous prose poems. The random discovery of words that 'caught his imagination' in a particular book allowed Bob to embrace...
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...
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...