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answering the question [What is visual poetry?] one full-color chapbook at a time
16 March 2010 -
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male + Selby, Spencer + USA
Born and raised in the midwest, Spencer Selby began writing film criticism and poetry after college. In 1984 he published Dark City: The Film Noir, an early study of the genre that has remained in print for over 25 years. In San Francisco in the mid-80s he put out SINK, which was one of the first experimental poetry magazines to be desktop published. This was followed by a stint as coordinator of the Canessa Park Reading Series in North Beach from 1987-93. After that came the creation of Selby’s List of Experimental Poetry/Art Magazines, which has endured online as an important source of info for innovative writers and artists around the world.
Spencer Selby has performed his work in many North American cities and in Europe. He is the author of eight poetry books and four previous compilations of visual work. He currently lives in Ames, Iowa.
Spencer says: “My color work is digital but is created following a unique and somewhat complex process, which may involve manipulation of found or recycled material, mono copy art and abstract scanography. Transparencies are used to build master page constructions, which then go back into the computer for adjustment and final execution.”
16 full-color pages. $10 (+ s/h)
14 March 2010 -
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Hungary + Koppány, Márton + male
In the late seventies I felt pressed to “get rid” of my Hungarian. So the main source of my way is a deficiency, which makes things simple in some sense.
Asemic Table No. 2 on the cover is a comment on Tony Trehy’s Reykjavik. Works on pp 4, 6, 7, 8, 11 and 13 were dedicated to Geof Huth, Karl Kempton, Jim Leftwich, Bob Grumman, Nico Vassilakis and Karl Young respectively. All poems are from: Endgames, Otoliths 2008; From The Annual Records of The Cloud Appreciation Society, Otoliths 2008 (coedited with Nico Vassilakis); and from a book project, also with Otoliths.
16 full-color pages. $10 (+ s/h)
10 March 2010 -
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male + Mollohan, J. Michael + USA
I was born in a log cabin. Well, not quite. I was born in 1947, which from 2010, seems like a log cabin. I have been interested particularly in those arts which push envelopes. I wrote my first poem between first and second grade. I’ve lived in Charleston, WV since 1975. I’ve worked for government, trade unions, bookstores, pizza places, software firms, and other non-poetic places. My visual poem, “Singularity” was used as a CD cover by Capitol Records. My poetry has been taught at the University of Iowa (thanks, Dan!). My ambitions are few, yet…ambitious. Nothing short of Nirvana will suffice. His website is: www.naplesyellow.com.
Michael says: “The contents of this book are conceptual photographs, artwork, and other plastic works that I deem to be evocative in a manner similar to that of a traditional poem. They are rather like Haiku of the mind.”
16 full-color pages. $10 (+ s/h)
9 March 2010 -
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female + Hill, Jennifer + USA
Jennifer Hill is editor and co-founder of Paper Kite Press Studio & Gallery.
More of her work can be found online at http://jhillkaucher.blogspot.com.
Jennifer says: “A smattering of altered pages and collage.”
16 full-color pages. $10 (+ s/h)
6 March 2010 -
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male + USA + Waber, Dan
Dan Waber is an idea factory who doesn’t have any clue what “writer’s block” could possibly be. He could use a writer’s cork, most days. He’s an editor, publisher, encourager, and passionate advocate for the life of meaning. He has written more sestinas than there are particles in the known universe, and is currently working on an infinite short story of love contained in a kiss. He makes his online home at logolalia.com and replies to emails sent to danwaber@gmail.com.
Dan says: “A little of this, a little of that, some altered pages, some screen captures of digital work, some never-before-seen potato prints, some rubbings, some collage work.”
16 full-color pages. $10 (+ s/h)
