Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. "... we must remember that 'visual writing,' the basic subject of discussion in this collection of reviews, does not per se contain or represent specific writings or specific texts. Visual writing and visual poetry demon...
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Poetry. Art. LEG MIST: The dream of blood the dream of fountain pens on the window bang bang la pinche descarnada in the moat worms lengua de madera yr name off ff inds yr nname was tines yr book re moved espejo de grava garabatos to be read run dus...
Poetry. Latinx Studies. "From the beautiful, askew opening line of this book, 'as much are the years gone now as snow,' to the profound concluding speculations, 'Is the world made in the shape of language?'; 'A lifelong search for sound in meaning'—...
Poetry. Avant-garde. "I thought I had died & ascended to the heathens when I read this book. So excited to discover that adherents to—practitioners of, yet—the poésie maudit that I espoused are still active, even if they are living in some far-flung...
Poetry. Jim Leftwich takes on the enigmatic, complex poetry of John M. Bennett in a series of explorations of Bennett's books. Leftwich, a poet, is an authority on Bennett's ways of writing. His expositions include essay-like discussions, close read...
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...
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...