John M. Bennett, SOLE DADAS & PRIME SWAY

Transductions of Luis de Góngora's Soledades & Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz' Primero Sueño

Bennett is obviously at home with both Siglo de Oro literature and its linguistic excesses, as he is with contemporary avant garde literature with its multidirected experiments to both destroy language and to re-create it. In short, this intricate and faithful-to-the-original (homophonically speaking) “translation” will surely find its place among the major experiments in contemporary poetry. -Ivan Argüelles

Bennett’s transduction of Sor Juana’s Primero Sueño was written, he has said, by “pretending I don’t know Spanish and writing it out (reading it) as if it were English.” This process arises from “an interest or attention paid to speech and hand writing as ‘texts’ full of meanings that have nothing to do with linguistics. I often read, or try to read, printed texts that way, too.” .... John Bennett’s project is as significant as any we will find in current poetical practice. - Jim Leftwich

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Peter Ganick, REMOVE A CONCEPT, Volume 13

"This book is an anti-virus program. It dissolves grammatical build-up. Soothes syntactic overdose. Relieves the pressure of a world gone viral. Open up. Worlds flow in. Rote acceptance crumbles. What flow? Listen down, beyond earshot. You fade into shelved oblivion, reclaimed from human swamp. Mind contusions pend. Feral undercarriage bottoms out, gutters into upside trough. Touchpad hues cry for you. Entrails point to all signs in weathered veins. Towns collapse. Datelines fault into summer lofts. Skies sift memorized self tonic; undertones resurge in fallen shock. Drink down sweltering ingots of Ganick attack. He’ll shave your morning; you turn up again in raw words." ---John Pursch

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PICO MOJADO

 

PICO MOJADO

John M. Bennett & Byron Smith

From deep within the archives comes this classic work

of sound and word, never before released, by the

creators of AX TONGUE and THE BLUR. 

Includes solo work by each artist, as well as their

inimitable collaborations.

Audio CD, 29 tracks, 53 minutes

Recorded in the 1990’s

Luna Bisonte Prods, 2012

$12

TIC TAC T

TIC TAC T

 Martín Gubbins & John M.   Bennett

Collaborative Visual Poetry by experimental poets

Martín Gubbins (Chile) and John M. Bennett (USA)

Edition Limited to 75 copies

29 Full-Color Laser Prints in a Portfolio

Suitable for Framing

Foro de Escritores & Luna Bisonte Prods, 2012

$70 US

BLOCK by John M. Bennett

Price: $15.00

Short text and mantra blocks by John M. Bennett, mostly in English, with some in Spanish and other languages. Each tightly coiled poem contains Bennett’s signature textual inventiveness and compression, humor, bizarre and surrealist metaphor, and intense lyricism. These works could be described as “haiku” on steroids: “locksmith wobbled in/the afterbreath...)))dirt/whistle ,corncob and g/ravel...)))” or “los anos tantos años/alejados como una tos/tada en el traspa tio lo/que veo muje y el/sueño del conejo tengo”.

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