Description
Poetry. "I consider OJIJETE Bennett's finest work yet with its graphics, typography, marvelous cacophony/mayhem of language, confusion of music and sound, tonalities and accents in dialects hitherto unimagined! Insanity masked as poetry in its most primordial semi-conscious origins namely the utterance of the sacred vowels and regurgitating them ad infinitum in cosmic misrepresentations."—Iván Argüelles
"Bennett cultivates an experimental poetics which works through intermediality; his iconoclastic attitude places him outside the 'what must be done' of the academies and the 'what will they say' of the literary cliques. Today at 77 years of age he continues being the 'seminal poet' perceived by Richard Kostelanetz decades ago; his production proliferates in a continuum which snakes among multiple languages, through which he moves naturally. His is a vital and subversive poetics, which uses no passport between languages nor is detained at the frontiers of what is already known."—Luis Bravo
Author Bio
John M. Bennett has published over 400 books and chapbooks of poetry and other materials including ENDNAME (Luna Bisonte Prods, 2020), OJIJETE (Luna Bisonte Prods, 2020), and LEG MIST (Luna Bisonte Prods, 2019). He has published, exhibited and performed his word art worldwide in thousands of publications and venues. He was editor and publisher of LOST AND FOUND TIMES (1975-2005), and is Founding Curator of the Avant Writing Collection at The Ohio State University Libraries. Richard Kostelanetz has called him "the seminal American poet of my generation." His work, publications, and papers are collected in several major institutions, including Washington University (St. Louis), SUNY Buffalo, The Ohio State University, The Museum of Modern Art, and other major libraries. His PhD (UCLA 1970) is in Latin American Literature.
Author City: COLUMBUS, OH USA