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answering the question [What is visual poetry?] one full-color chapbook at a time
29 August 2011 -
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Italy + male + Sannelli, Massimo
Massimo Sannelli. Born: 1973, 27th November. I live in Genoa, Italy. I try to follow what I think it’s the better way to live. So I’m a writer and an artist; a translator and an actor always working with voice(s). That’s all. When I make these visual poems or electronic drawings, I’d like to force my mind to be a better communicator of the inner self. These poems are created by a normal word-processor, in order to be as light as children are. That’s all the power I can use, it’s not a great one, and I like it.
Massimo says: “this IS DONE, and that IS DONE, another thing is TO DO, later: theater, music, art, translations, poetry, performance. i don’t know the *direction* of my work(s). the absolute and invisible Work is filled of works: the first is abstract, the others do exist. all is real. the mind quotes itself. there’s the real gorgeous practical wish to look for real gorgeous practical happyness. nothing but fragments of an invisible mind-poem I’d like to share with people. we can help each other to be more self-aware. feel free to email me: massimo.sannelli@gmail.com”
16 full-color pages. $10 (+ s/h)
27 March 2011 -
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male + Singapore + Zhicheng-Mingdé, Desmond Kon
Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé adores Jackson Pollock. He first conflated Cubist and Abstract Expressionist sensibilities in “One Line About the Sea”, a mixed media canvas of charcoal, graphite and metal he created for the closing event of the Singapore Writers Festival in 2009. An interdisciplinary artist, Desmond also works in clay, his commemorative pieces housed in museums and private collections in India, the Netherlands, the UK and the US. He has edited more than ten books and co-produced three audio books, several pro bono for non-profit organizations. He sporadically works on an on-going project of recasting his early 1990s illustrations into what he calls Linearte Poems.
Desmond says: “In 2005, I subjected myself to several bouts of binge drinking to achieve more authentic streams of consciousness. Fragments written during that time appear in these images, which cast the poetic line against the geometric. There are allusions to drip painting but made angular and planar. Boxed. Staggered. A flattened texture. Icy and thin.”
16 full-color pages. $10 (+ s/h)
27 March 2011 -
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female + Huth, NF + USA
NF Huth’s textual work has appeared in Listenlight, The Literary Review, Philadelphia Poets, CWM, and others. Her visual poetry was featured at The New Post-Literate, and her book of visual poetry, sansound, was published by dbqp. LAUGHING/OUCH/CUBE will publish her first book of poems. She publishes found sound at Click Buzz Chirp, and photographic images that are both pointy and blue at Pointy Blue.
This series, A Space for It, uses photos she took in 2009 at the Saari Residence and at Turku Castle, Finland, in Manchester, U.K., and on East Caroga Lake, New York. The icicles are from a 2011 photograph taken in Schenectady, New York.
Author photo by Geof Huth.
Nancy says: “These poems are about empty places, leaving space for the reader to participate.”
16 full-color pages. $10 (+ s/h)
16 February 2011 -
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Italy + male + Vitacchio, Alberto
Born in 1942 in Torino where he still lives. During the 80’s he began working on Visual and Sound Poetry and, at the same time, started doing performances usually with Carla Bertola, working on the idea of “Stagepoetry actions”. He performed widely in Italy and different countries. In Visual Poetry he usually works on collages following a personal technique obtaining color from the surface of paper, a procedure he called “pulling up”; recently he is using blowing up from fragments passing through photos and then laser copies. He has taken part in many exhibitions in Italy and abroad. Since 1978 he is co-editor of the International Poetry Magazine Offerta Speciale.
Alberto says: “My works have their origin in a particular kind of collage technique, some fragments of the original works have been photographed and reworked with laser xerox and form the basis for other works. Letters are important for their graphical form but frequently contain a kind of meaning. All this is the work of a visual poet and of course the origin is language.”
16 full-color pages. $10 (+ s/h)
14 February 2011 -
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female + Kuhn, Donna + USA
Donna Kuhn is the author of nine poetry books and chapbooks. She has published over 400 poems plus visual, sound text, and video poetry in national and international journals both in print and online. In addition to being an author and poet she is an exhibiting visual artist and dancer. She holds a BA degree in Creative Writing from Sonoma State University and has taught poetry and art in nursing homes, retirement centers and outpatient mental health clinics.
Her blog can be seen at: http://digitalaardvarks.blogspot.com. She lives in Taos, New Mexico.
Donna says: “donna kuhn uses her own poetry, found text, collage, drawing and painting in her altered book spreads of visual poetry. mementos, stickers, old drawings, copies of old drawings, old copy art, fancy tape, stencils. everything is torn, scribbled on, doodled on. pages are punched, torn, folded. a swirling combo of language and image. the pages are then sometimes animated in her dance/poetry videos because everything must be reassembled and integrated.”
16 full-color pages. $10 (+ s/h)
