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answering the question [What is visual poetry?] one full-color chapbook at a time
24 August 2010 -
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Deed, Martha + USA + female
Martha Deed is a poet and web.artist who lives on the Erie Canal in North Tonawanda in a house that causes writing to happen.
Martha’s chapbook The Lost Shoe, and her tiny booklets Heat (flash fiction) and her 500 Favourite Words have previously been published by chapbookpublisher.com. Her work has appeared on line and in print in many professional and literary journals. Martha Deed’s websites: www.sporkworld.org/Deed and sporkworld.tumblr.com.
Several of the images in this series have appeared previously: the cover and #10 were included in the Avant exhibit at the Skywalk Gallery, Columbus, Ohio; #6 can be seen at unlikelystories.org; #7, was included in the Erasures Exhibit at Yale University; #s 8-10 can be seen at logolalia.com/alteredbooks; and #15 will be in Rubbings (a forthcoming anthology).
Martha says: “This series reflects a feeling of apprehension, the story of an actual murder in images when the facts alone were not enough (Cf The Lost Shoe, a Naissance chapbook). It’s an attempt to answer the question: Can one recreate the sense of a person through collage — a pack of plastic cards, notebooks, and even a playful video image? Can these images represent what life is like for some of us in the USA today?”
16 full-color pages. $10 (+ s/h)
20 August 2010 -
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Belgium + Fierens, Luc + male
Luc Fierens (www.vansebroeck.be) was born 1961 in Mechelen (BE). He’s “an active mail-artist since 1984, when he began delivering his distinctive flavor of poesia-visiva-inspired visual poetry to individuals, exhibitions, and archives around the planet. His method of production is collage, a particular brand of verbo-visual collage that makes it points by abrupt collocations of disparate fragments of image and word.” (Geof Huth 2007). Recent publications include contributions to anthologies: Zieteratuur (Uitgeverij Passage, Groningen, 2010), Ein Alphabet der Visuellen Poesie (edition ch, Wien, 2010) and Poeti D’Europa (Fondazione Sarenco, Italy 2009). “Luc Fierens is a master of the narrative and discursive serial collage poem.” (Jim Leftwich 2005)
cover: (b)etsy in wonderland
Luc says: “This series is a critique on the position of women’s beauty in society : past, present & future. These layers make connections between image/word. My language of bodies invites the reader/viewer to have a closer look for a new reading & seeing. ”
16 full-color pages. $10 (+ s/h)
16 August 2010 -
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USA + male + topel, andrew
if it’s true that a picture is worth one thousand words, i present here with this collection of comix a seventeen thousand word statement on visual poetry
if it is false, and a picture is not worth one thousand words, then i have barely begun to say anything at all about visual poetry
andrew topel lives in florida with his best friend & lovely wife crystal, whom this collection is dedicated to. he is the editor & publisher of avantacular press, specializing in chapbooks of visual poetry & other-stream writing as well as limited edition posters, one-of-a-kind art books & text sculptures. to see the on-line catalog of chapbooks visit: http://avantacular-press.blogspot.com/
to contact the author regarding text sculptures & other book art objects, email: andrewtopel@hotmail.com
front cover image: the portal
16 full-color pages. $10 (+ s/h)
31 July 2010 -
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Belgium + White, Helen + female
Helen White (www.krikri.be/helen) was born in Britain in 1977 and now lives in Ghent, Belgium, where she co-organizes festivals and other poetry events as a member of the Krikri polypoetry collective.
Recent publications include a contribution to the anthologies Zieteratuur (Uitgeverij Passage, Groningen, 2010) and Last Vispo (forthcoming). Her chapbook How to Quote Visual Poetry is no. 94 in Luc Fierens’ postfluxpostbooklet series.
Inspired by the miniature format of the series, this chapbook is a collection of fragments from larger projects along with poems that would otherwise be too small to print.
Helen says: “I have always experienced poems as tangible objects: as a child, my favourites were the ones that felt like putting a marble in my mouth and walking around with it hidden under my tongue. I make poems with kaleidoscopes, shadows, pebbles, my fingers. Most of the poems photographed in this booklet can be held in the hand, although with some of them – pins wire broken glass – you might not want to.”
16 full-color pages. $10 (+ s/h)
30 July 2010 -
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Colón, David A. + USA + male
David A. Colón teaches literature at Texas Christian University. He received his Ph.D. in English from Stanford University, where he wrote a dissertation on the transformation of the trope of the Chinese written character as a medium for poetry from Imagism to Concretism. His poems have appeared in DIAGRAM, Score, Latino Stuff Review, The Stanford Black Arts Quarterly, and elsewhere. His work in poetics and poetry criticism has appeared or is forthcoming in Cultural Critique, The Journal of Latino/Latin American Studies, How2, Hispanet Journal, MELUS, Studies in American Culture, and The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry & Poetics. He was born and raised in Brooklyn and now lives in Fort Worth.
David says: “These visual poems treat letters and words as a palette from which familiar (and defamiliarized) images are conjured. Negative space is a counterpoint to the designs, suggesting a visual representation of silence: the same silence that verse poets use as the canvas on which they paint their melodies.”
16 full-color pages. $10 (+ s/h)
20 July 2010 -
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Liszkiewicz, A. J. Patrick + USA + male
A. J. Patrick Liszkiewicz is a media artist and theorist, an assistant editor at the online journal Anti-, and a member of the art collective RUST, LTD. He is the author of two previous chapbooks, Alphabet Man (Slack Buddha) and Count as One (New River), and a forthcoming full-length collection, Afeeld: Computer Games as Poetics (ETC/MediaCommons). His recent work has appeared in Diagram, Hobart, Kotaku, Otoliths, Word for/Word, and the Zaoem Festival of Contemporary Poetry. He created the poems in this chapbook by modifying “glitchNES,” a ROM originally created by Don Miller, and using it with the Nestopia NES emulator.
A. J. says: “These visual poems are the result of glitches I created and controlled through computer game software. I used an NES emulator as an instrument, improvised and composed in real time, and recorded the output of my play. The resultant poems are colorful screenshots that suggest meaning through image and text fragments.”
16 full-color pages. $10 (+ s/h)
9 July 2010 -
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Belgium + Ramon, Renaat + male
Renaat Ramon, born in Bruges (BE). Poet, essayist and visual artist: monumental sculptures, paintings, graphics, installations, furniture designs and architectural projects in the spirit of constructivism and minimalism. Collaborator to Big Ode (PT), I/Z (NL) and Poëziekrant (BE). Published a.o. concrete and visual poetry: Ongehoorde gedichten / Poems unheard-of (1997), Color-field poetry (1999) and Zichtbare stem / Visible voice (2009), essays on the relation between word and image and the concrete poetry of Theo van Doesburg (De Stijl) and H.N.Werkman (The Next Call).
In preparation: Visie & Vorm / Vision & Form. History of the concrete and visual poetry in the Netherlands and Flanders.
Renaat says: “nøtebøøk: preliminary notes for a new pure world, constructed only with an alphabet of 26 letters, 10 digits, 4 arithmetical signs and 3 geometrical elements.”
16 full-color pages. $10 (+ s/h)
8 July 2010 -
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Basinski, Michael + USA + male
Michael Basinski is the Curator of the Poetry Collection, the University at Buffalo. He performs his work as a solo poet and in ensemble with BuffFluxus. Among his many books of poetry are Poems Popeye Papyrus (Slack Buddha Press), Of Venus 93 (Little Scratch Pad) and All My Eggs Are Broken (BlazeVox). His poems and other works have appeared in many magazines including Dandelion, BoxKite, Open Letter, Torgue, Explosive Magazine, First Offense, Terrible Work, Kenning, Lungfull, Lvng, Generator, Tinfish, Curicule Patterns, Score, Unarmed, Rampike, House Organ, Ur Vox, Damn the Caesars, Pilot, 1913, Filling Station, Public Illumination, and Poetry.
Michael says: “SNAP! is a narrative ‘opem’ (a poem with many points of entry) improvisational (out of mind reading aloud at point of encounter), aural and visual/manuscipted, comic book, performable and emergent poetry. ‘Hell has no power over pagans.’ – Rimbaud.”
16 full-color pages. $10 (+ s/h)
18 June 2010 -
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Dunnewold, Jane + USA + female
I am self-taught. I am especially interested in writing and making as integral aspects of the creative process. Works begin as white silk and are transformed through dyeing, painting, drawing, and screen-printing with sand. I seek a whole larger than the sum of the parts and am currently intent on discovering what it takes for a visual surface to be perceived as poetic. I write about the creative process at existentialneighborhood.blogspot.com, and authored Art Cloth: A Guide to Surface Design on Fabric (Interweave 2010). I maintain Art Cloth Studios in San Antonio, Texas, and teach a dozen workshops a year. My website is complexcloth.com.
Cover: Meditation One; the writing reads: Live in present time. / Seek only the Truth. / Surrender your will to God. / Love is the only true power. / Honor thyself. /Honor one another. / All is One.
16 full-color pages. $10 (+ s/h)
8 June 2010 -
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Ahmad, Sarah + Pakistan + female
My name is Sarah Ahmad and I was born in India and live in Pakistan. I see myself as a struggling poet and artist as in my world where life is so fragile, not knowing if you will return alive every time you step out of the house, getting someone to acknowledge your art is a real struggle.
Sarah says: “My work here is me struggling to make even a little bit of sense out of what is going on in the world around me, for the sake of preserving my sanity. This book consists of work that incorporates photography and scanned objects with minimal text.”
16 full-color pages. $10 (+ s/h)
