PHANEAGRAMS by Jake Berry

PHANEOGRAMS

Jake Berry

"Phaneagrams – with its near-minimalist poetics and extraordinary compression of language – is a tremendous achievement. It is a successor to the expansive, visionary lineage of the Dante-Blake-Whitman continuum." - DeVillo Sloan

"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 stories told in the lyric mode of Williams and Creeley. That fact tells us what, exactly what, about living in these times. There are no alternative facts. This is not the post-truth era. The voice of William Blake is everywhere in these poems, He carries /the old abyss /in his chest. A piece of an aphorism, aphorisms in pieces... tells us, tell us... why and how "aphorism" shares an etymolo-gical history with "horizon": Wheels the tongue /miraculous; the salamander /dreams /feathered wings." - Jim Leftwich

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RASCIBLE & KEMPT, vol. 3, by Jim Leftwich

rascible & kempt: meditations and explorations in and around the poem Vol. 3

JIM LEFTWICH

256 PP., $20

This 3^rd 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 approaches to language-based arts that are ignored by the academies, the publishers, and the cliques that make up the dominant worlds of letters today. This exciting art, of which Leftwich is also a practitioner, is what will shape the literary world of the future, and his documentation of it is, and will be, of immense value. He takes on this extraordinary material in extensive real and imagined conversations, exhaustive discussions and contextualizations, detailed analyses, bibliographic documentation, and other approaches difficult to categorize, because the categories for it do not yet exist. These 3 essential books open a portal to a world of major literary creation, a world that is, for the moment, largely invisible.

- John M. Bennett

Future Prometheans, Rascible & Kempt is as much a training manual as it is a mechanism to reignite the fires of poetry.

- Michael Peters

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AT THE MOMENT NO IDEA

Live at The AfterMAF Festival, July 2016, Roanoke, Virginia

JOHN M. BENNETT, BILLY BOB BEAMER, WILHELM KATASTROF, HEATH NEVERGOLD

Poetry, improvisational sound poetry, improvisational music.

Audio CD - $10.00

THE WORLD OF BURNING by John M. Bennett

THE WORLD OF BURNING

John M. Bennett

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 glitter in their condensed expressive emotionality. The result is a universe that is gritty, carnal, and at the same time metaphysical and sublime, resonating in multiple worlds, cultures, times, and consciousnesses. Bennett does not “write poetry”, but uses poetry as a means of understanding and creating what cannot be understood and what cannot exist, but does very much exist in these pages. In the over 50 years of his writing, he has published more than 400 books and chapbooks, each quite different, yet distinctly Bennett, and has developed a startling variety of innovative techniques and approaches. His Select Poems appeared in 2016.

"I believe that the broom closet is where John M. Bennet's words hide. Bennet's language, immersed in buckets of wetness, emerge from the closet, carried by Fantasia's Micky Wizard's brooms in intense exponential rigor. They spill as poetry, endlessly over the edge and down the stairs of the effervescent fountains of life's dark and mysterious castles."

Sinclair Scripa /Tara Verheide

$20

286 pp., cream paper

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52 MASTERPIECES by Hartmut Andryczuk

Hartmut Andryczuk is a German artist and publisher, whose spectacular artist's books are in major collections world-wide. These 52 new drawings display the most intriguing qualities of his art, with their human figures, symbols, and words rendered in his unique “primitivistic” style. Printed in crisp grey-scale on crème paper, with a full-color cover. ISBN 978-1-938521-33-1

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