Description
Poetry. 10-inch box set, housing nine full-color booklets and three postcards. This collection comments on genre and latent form as a type of minimalist poetry. Subject matter includes: chiropteric burglary, miscast spells, sentient AI, elvish folklore, heavy metal, counter-hippie cybernetics.
"Feeling out the traditions of world-building, invented languages, and fictional histories of those poet-philogists who crafted much of our register of fantasy and folk horror (Sturluson, Tolkien, Brothers Krofft & Grimm), ASHENFOLK re-collects a legendarium of dingy elves, midnight moves, minor gods, and twilight people into a boogie man box-set of nightborn bric-a-brac. Mosconi borrows a light from Bradbury's fireman to enkindle a superfan assemblage of lexical robble-robble and mythopoeic proto-punk, all loose cover for the myriad blazes a book fails to contain."—Andrew Maxwell
Author Bio
Joseph Mosconi is a writer and taxonomist based in Los Angeles. He co-directs the Poetic Research Bureau and is the author of several books, including ASHENFOLK (Make Now Books, 2019), Renaissance Realism (Gauss PDF, 2016), DEMON MISO/FASHION IN CHILD (Make Now Books, 2015), Fright Catalog (Insert Blanc Press, 2013), and, with Pauline Beaudemont, an artist book called This Arrogant Envelope (FCAC Geneva, 2017). With Rita Gonzalez, he edited the art and poetry journal Area Sneaks. His poems have been selected for the BAX: Best American Experimental Writing anthology in 2014 and 2015. With Andrew Maxwell, he curated an exhibition, "THIS KNOWN WORLD: Spontaneous Particulars of the Poetic Research Bureau" at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, in 2017.
Author City: LOS ANGELES, CA USA