YES IT IS

by Sheila E. Murphy & John M. Bennett

These two poets have done it all and now they are doing it together. The creatures of collaboration they amassed here are familiar somehow, yet they are stepping toward a future vispo archive. The shift is blurred distinction, you see Sheila and you see John and you see them most pleasantly meld. They form a fecund third that lingers. These two master poets present us with an extraordinary thing - visual discourse. - Nico Vassilakis

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ALPHABETAP

by Thomas M. Cassidy & Marilyn R. Rosenberg

ALPHABETAP is a lively visual collaboration using intense graphics, colors, text, book design, and collage to create a unique and compelling artists' book that is playfully based on the alphabet. The authors are masters in the fields of visual poetry and the book arts, and this collaboration is a treat for the eye and mind.

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4 COLLABORATIVE CHAPBOOKS

SERONS, Matthew Stolte & John M. Bennett
THE PLUNGER, Reed Altemus & John M. Bennett
NOMBRE, Carla Bertola & John M. Bennett
TONGUE TICKING, Stacey Allam & John M. Bennett

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Columbus, OH 43214 USA

OLVIDOS by John M. Bennett

$26

342 pp.

ISBN 9781938521058

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Bennett has been the avant in avant-garde in the latter half of the 20th century with his Lost and Found Times, one of the great “small press poetry rags” of all time, and then through his Luna Bisonte Prods press. OLVIDOS (“Memories”; though the word also and literally means “things forgotten”) is quite possibly his masterpiece. 339 pages of zany often inarticulate expositions of a kind of lunar madness that can only be the work of the descendent of such poets as Vicente Huidobro and Guillaume Apollinaire. There is most likely something for everyone here from minimalist visual techniques and zen-like koans to architectured poems such as “olvidos y fragmentos” with its enigmatic phrase “lock the boot”. But then the entire text is one immense sequence of enigmatic and puzzling dicta, summed up best in his own portmanteau word “hablacagada”. This is an important work and should place Bennett centrally on the map of great, innovative American poets. - Ivan Argüelles

MOMENTS NOTICE by Nico Vassilakis

FULL COLOR VISUAL POETRY!

75 pp.

$30

Nico Vassilakis' Moments Notice has taken a huge leap forward in the evolution of concrete poetry, by utilizing the myriad possibilities of digital typographic manipulation. The result is work of great beauty, color, design, concept, and a visuality that makes his ideas and poetics vivid and endlessly intriguing. Maria Damon says, “Moments notice us at a moment’s notice, lying in wait for us, in this space-time lingo-jaunt. When humans (hypothetically) fall into a black hole, the first thing their bodies undergo is ‘spagghettification.’ One could say when human language falls into Nico Vassilakis’ clutches, it undergoes a similar process. But instead of annihilation, there is plenitude." Ron Silliman asks, “Is it feasible for visual poetry to be positively erudite? In the words (or word) of one of the not-quite-texts here, Moments Notice presents the argument for YES.”

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