Nomadic and Archeological Scriptures by Carlos Martínez Luis

Publisher	LUNA BISONTE PRODS
Published	June 5, 2009
Language	Asemic
Pages	65
Binding	Perfect-bound Paperback
Interior Ink	Black & white
Dimensions (inches)	8.5 wide × 11.0 tall

These “asemic” texts by Carlos Martínez Luis are basically completely “semic”: that is, they communicate to us by means of glyphs that have forms resonant of the human body, of human culture, and of human consciousness and memory. In the second part of this work, frequent use is made of a well-known drawing by Alfred Jarry of Père Ubu as if it were a linguistic glyph presented in a different way on each occasion with differing expressive ends. The Ubu glyph serves to open up a way of communicating with these fascinating texts, of reading and seeing them with a simultaneity which enriches the possibilities of understanding and of the experience of perception. The poet, artist, essayist, scholar, and curator Carlos Martínez Luis has created a work which pullulates with interpretive possibilities, beautiful, and which enhances the capacity of human understanding in a rare and uncommon way. -John M. Bennett

 

Permutoria - Visio and Textual Art by K.S. Ernst and Sheila E. Murphy

Publisher	Luna Bisonte Prods
Published	August 12, 2008
Language	English
Pages	120
Binding	Perfect-bound Paperback
Interior Ink	Full color
Dimensions (inches)	8.5 wide × 8.5 tall

Color, vivid and subtle, is a major protagonist in this amazing dialogue of text, text fragments, line, and image; a dialogue not so much between the 2 collaborators (the work is strikingly unified) as between the several modes of expression these pieces exhibit. Truly a unique and wonderful creation! Excerpts from introduction: "This book represents the first consolidated depiction of the Ernst-Murphy collaborative in extended form. Compiling the volume has facilitated the elucidating and sharing what the artists have opted to consider part of an emerging oeuvre." "Visio-textual art draws life from letters, syllables, and words, from line, from curve, to shape, enacting a philosophical geometry in which concept and physical reality are conjoined." "Collaboration is about discovery and surprise. In the experience of working together, the process-based discoveries in visio-textual art are amplified by virtue of the added thought power..."

 http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/permutoria/3360734 is link to preview the book then scroll down to read an expansive review by Bob Grumman, which appeared in SMALL PRESS REVIEW in 2008

The Great Wheel by Edward Lense and Bruce Robinson

Poems (Edward Lense) and images (Bruce Robinson)  inspired by the Tarot

Publisher	LUNA BISONTE PRODS
Published	January 8, 2009
Language	English
Pages	100
Binding	Perfect-bound Paperback
Interior Ink	Black & white
Dimensions (inches)	5.8 wide × 8.3 tall

Edward Lense has written a series of strong, personal poems on the metaphysical framework of a deck of Tarot cards, a device, with its fascinating ambiguity and resonance, that serves his purpose remarkably well. The Tarot concepts work as a kind of I Ching-like throw of the coins to stimulate meditations on the poet’s life that are both passionate and fully guided. Accompanying these poems are drawings by Bruce Robinson, which have a roughness that speaks to the underlying torment in the poems, related at times to a kind of theological undertow that seems present in both. The Great Wheel seems to be a force of destruction and death, running through this work’s conscious or unconscious voices, and challenging the reader to confront a fuller understanding of what it means to be alive. As the poet says here, “Another body stirs inside my body,/its slow pulse not the beat of my heart but the tides,/a cloud of blood suspended in water.”

The book includes an introduction by the author and the artist. Years before this book was designed, A central Ohio gallery exhibited Bruce William's plaster reliefs which were painted with black linear images illustrating each of Edward Lense's Tarot poems (displayed alongside). Photographs of the plaster reliefs were digitally construed into high contrast b+w 2-D images for this book.

BEEFSTEAK by Paul Thaddeus Lambert

Publisher	Luna Bisonte Prods
Published	August 11, 2008
Language	English
Pages	86
Binding	Perfect-bound Paperback
Interior Ink	Black & white
Dimensions (inches)	6.1 wide × 9.2 tall

(Full Color Cover designed by Tom Taylor) Paul T. Lambert, The King of Inismo in America? The Secret Flood in Temple 13? Is this His Charter? The New Constitution Laying Down the Form? His Autobiography? Yes it is yes it is yes it is yes it is. Distilled from esoteric links to All The Texts, this Tome surpasses them all; it is more intelligent, more illuminated, more cancerous, more fluvial, more shapely, more ineffable, more Smiling the Total Smile than whatever else you think you have “read”. Nothing will be the same, all praise to St. Lambert. Read every word here and then read them again. You are now “Elections officials in the wall… ,flot ,hat, heap ,hunt ,hack ,trump ,flist ,fan, fono ,flake Torture is…the drumbeat…obscenity charges…capitulated blood on the sand.” You will “buy some hangers”, “same closet gasping the”. Yes it is. Yes it is. Yes it is. Yes it is.

SEVENTY by Tom Taylor

Publisher	Luna Bisonte Prods
Published	July 24, 2008
Language	English
Pages	82
Binding	Perfect-bound Paperback
Interior Ink	Black & white
Dimensions (inches)	5.8 wide × 8.3 tall

these are separate poems but also all really one poem a single breath no periods barely any punctuation at all yet it has a rhythm of breathing, has an andante meditative and celebratory movement, a “finally knowing what is there…everywhere all at once” truly an illumination, a clarity in this work written on the edge of life and fully living “the heart beats its sustaining winds” which like this long poem have no end nor a beginning, this is Tom’s life in these pages and it’s one of the best lives he’s written, which is saying very much indeed that this is a very great work John M. Bennett, Luna Bisonte Prods editor