FIELD HOLLERS by Iván Argüelles & Solomon Rino

Collaborative Long Poem

The authors describe this long poem like this: “Field Hollers was born of insomnia, trading stanzas largely predawn, back and forth before light harrowed.” This sequence of stanzas consists of a sort of dialogue, a back-and-forth between 2 “twins” (ie, 2 voices, not 2 sets of twins) who constantly switch places, go into reverse, or speak as one voice, so much so that there is little distinction, really, between them. They become a single double voice, and talk on a metaphoric and metaphysical plane in language that is achingly beautiful and resonant. This is a unique and extraordinary work, and can be read, and reread, in one sitting, and again and again and again. - John M. Bennett

43 p.

ISBN 9781938521768

$9.00 US

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THE TOAST by Mark Young

POETRY

Maybe it’s because “A railroad line runs im-/mediately behind the/parietal lobe.” Or maybe it’s because “Phallic ritual is a/literary genre that blends/aspects of natural rubber/& cognitive therapy…” I don’t know, but Mark Young’s poetry opens out into a kind of Gesamtkunstwerk, a total art work, limning our present moment. His work is at once intellectually engaging and truly entertaining. No small feat. I’m a fan. — Tom Beckett

100 pp.

ISBN 9781938521751

$12.00 US

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IS KNOT by John M. Bennett

IS KNOT is: Poems, many incorporating visual elements, in English or Spanish or both, interspersed with visual poems, Fluxus-like texts, hacks, and collaborations. Written in 2016, it is a tour de force of Bennett's unique poetics. "Your visuals are priceless, John ... I prefer them to so much experimental work, either in the realm of the so-called visual arts or "concrete poetry" (which they really ain't) … your so-called poetry which calls itself verse, but is the cryptically deranged response to "official literature", stands head and shoulders above … Superimpositions of the subconscious stripped of Freudian valor (values?) … And knockout minimalism!" - Iván Argüelles

On Bennett's OJIJETE:

OJIJETE can be “read” in a conventional sense and also experienced strictly on the visual level. Bennett uses fonts, typography, tropes from concrete poetry and a minimal use of visual images to create one of the more effective image-texts that I have ever seen. I see in OJIJETE Ezra Pound's Cantos using ideograms, the fluidity of Paterson by William Carlos Williams and, of course, Charles Olson's Maximus. John M. Bennett is one of the few visual poets today who has the knowledge and skills to use the lessons of literary Modernism (and errors) to create a 21^st century vispo. OJIJETE is a shining example of his abilities.

- De Villo Sloan in Asemic Front 2.

$17.00

184 pp.

English & Spanish

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TAMAZUNCHALE By Iván Argüelles

TAMAZUNCHALE: Poetic and phonetic irregularities

Iván Argüelles

“One of the most visionary poets of our time. Ivan Argüelles is that rarest of poets: one who practices at the very precipice of being.” Andrew Joron also wrote this 2021 note to author: "The amount of supernaturally great work you've produced on a daily basis over the past few years has altered the path of this planet! Please keep me posted on anything forthcoming and I will order it. Shine on, you crazy diamond!" - Andrew Joron / "If there is anything great in contemporary poetry, and there is, Argüelles is an essential part of it. His work contains all that makes poetry great. That he does not have a massive audience means nothing. Should poetry matter to a culture that has almost entirely abandoned it?" - Jake Berry

Luna Bisonte Prods 2021

$20.00 US

193 pp.

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SIC: ARTE-CORREO Y POEINSTANTES por César Espinosa

SIC: ARTE-CORREO Y POEINSTANTES

César Espinosa

Con ensayos de Espinosa, Araceli  Zúñgiga, y John M. Bennett

 

César Espinosa, well known as a great promoter and scholar of visual and experimental poetry, is a first-rate visual poet himself. A compilation of some of his work in that field is long overdue. For this edition, Espinosa has also written an introductory essay on the long international and interethnic history of visual poetry, with special emphasis on México. Araceli Zúñiga adds some essential observations on Latin American experimental poetry, and on its Mexican context, with references to Ulises Carrión, and to the pre-colombian Tlacuilos (Náhua writers/painters), among others. She quotes Carrión, from his El nuevo arte de hacer libros: “Un libro es una secuencia de espacios” : a pronouncement that gives much food for thought, not only for visual poetry, but for all books, including this one, exhorting the reader to see the negative spaces, or what is missing, or what contradicts the book. It's the idea that reality is a union of opposites, a very Mesoamerican and universal concept. This book is both a work of art and a book about that art.

César Espinosa, bien conocido como gran fomentador e investigador de la poesía visual y experimental, es también un poeta visual de primera categoría. Ya está pasada la hora de hacer una compilación de su obra en ese campo, lo que él nos ha hecho con esta selección de la serie SIC, que ha creado durante muchos años. Espinosa ha hecho para esta edición un ensayo introductorio sobre la larga historia internacional e interétnica de la poesía visual, con énfasis especial en México, que incluye una presentación detallada de los Bienales Internacionales de la Poesía Visual y Experimental que empezaron en 1985 para terminar 30 años más tarde, dirigidas y organizadas por él y su compañera Araceli Zúñiga. Araceli Zúñiga añade unas observaciones esenciales sobre la poesía experimental latinoamericana, y sobre el contexto mexicano de la práctica, con referencias a Ulises Carrión, y a los Tlacuilos pre-colombinos (escritores/pintores Náhuas), entre otros. Cita a Carrión, de su El nuevo arte de hacer libros: “Un libro es una secuencia de espacios”: dictamen que da mucho en qué pensar, no sólo para la poesía visual, sino para todos los libros, incluso éste, instando al lector a ver los espacios negativos, o lo que falta, o lo que contradice el libro. Es la idea de que la realidad es una unidad de opuestos, concepto muy mesoamericano, y universal. Este libro es a la vez una obra de arte y un libro sobre ese arte.

95 pages, color

In Spanish, with Bennett's Preface also in English

9781938521720

$27 US

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