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answering the question [What is visual poetry?] one full-color chapbook at a time
23 January 2011 -
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DiMichele, Bill + male + USA
My name is Bill DiMichele. I’m originally from Pennsylvania, and have been doing visual poetry since the late 1970s. My first pieces were typeovers done on an old Smith Corona typewriter. In 1980 I moved to San Francisco where I worked at a graphics company, doing work on the various machines at my disposal, copiers, cameras, vacuum frames, printing presses, etc.
I was coeditor of SCORE, magazine for visual poetry, with my friend Crag Hill, 1982-1990. I have been published in an endless number of small press magazines and blogs. I now publish Tip of the Knife (motto – draw blood or go home).
The piece I’m presenting is Fugue Dog The Ecstatic, a treatise on the nature of time and higher consciousness.
Bill says: “Fugue Dog the Ecstatic (one who has mystical experiences) is the subject of this series. He uses numerous tools on his quest, from Qabalah ( this spelling used for magick) to the Bible ( Solomon’s temple) to the Fourth Way (Gurdjieff’s concept of self-remembering).
He is both ancient and modern.
All things intersect in him.
Nirvana, Heaven, Enlightenment, these are only words to him. He knows that the real things cannot be spelled or spoken.
These pages map his journey from first episode to last, and he takes us with him the whole way.
What one man learns, all men learn.”
16 full-color pages. $10 (+ s/h)
11 January 2011 -
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Aguiar, Fernando + male + Portugal
Since 1972 he dedicates to experimental and visual poetry, using the most diversified techniques and supports.
Published 9 poetry books, 3 juvenile books and 6 anthologies of Portuguese and International Visual Poetry.
Since 1983 participated in more that 100 International Festivals of Performance and Poetry in Portugal, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Holland, Canada, Japan, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, China, Macao, U.S.A., Hong-Kong, Korea, Turkey and Iceland.
Organized several exhibitions of visual poetry and Festivals of Poetry and Performance since 1985.
In 2005 he created the “Soneto Ecológico”, a sonnet measuring 110 x 36 meters, made with 70 trees.
http://ocontrariodotempo.blogspot.com/
fernandoaguiar@netcabo.pt
16 full-color pages. $10 (+ s/h)
6 January 2011 -
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male + USA + Vassilakis, Nico
This series, Berth Rites, is based on housing potential for homeless and in need people through the takeover of cruise ship fleets worldwide.
Nico Vassilakis is a multimedia artist, poet and writer. He was a curator for the Subtext Reading Series in Seattle. His visual poetry videos have been shown at festivals and exhibitions of innovative language arts. Vassilakis’ writings have appeared in numerous magazines, including: EOAGH, West Line Coast, Aufgabe, Rampike, Talisman, Thermos and Golden Handcuffs Review. His latest publications are TEXT LOSES TIME, staReduction – a vispo essay, Disparate Magnets, Protracted Type, a collection of visual poetry, and recently, West of Dodge. Along with Crag Hill, he is currently editing The Last Vispo Anthology 1998-2008.
Cover photo by Crystal Curry.
16 full-color pages. $10 (+ s/h)
3 January 2011 -
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female + Mateer, Jenee + USA
Jenee Mateer is a photographer and video artist. She holds an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and she teaches photography and digital media at Towson University in Baltimore MD.
Jenee says: “I see my work as a meditation on issues of gender, desire, identity and the complexities of language (communication). Inspired by the philosophy of Wittgenstein and Bachelard, influenced by images from popular culture, art history, advertising and various books on science, number and communication theory, electronics and computers, I search for answers to questions about responsibility, choice, chance, fate and man’s place in the chaotic and complex universe.”
16 full-color pages. $10 (+ s/h)
16 October 2010 -
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Kharitonov, Evgenij V. + male + Russia
Evgenij V. Kharitonov, Poet, – sound – and visual artist, musician, and researcher of science fiction was born in 1969 in Moscow. He has a philological education, is the author of numerous literary publications and many books, and works in journalism. He is the publisher and the editor of the magazine of literary and art avant-guard “Drugoe Polusharie/Another Hemisphere”, the audio-magazine of sound poetry and audio art “ARTronic Poetry”, and the curator of Festival of experimental art “Lapa Azora”. He created of the music projects EugeneKha, Nameless Dancers, Microbit Project, Spacebirds and Yoko Absorbing.
http://academia-f.narod.ru (Home page)
http://drugpolushar.narod2.ru/ (Another Hemisphere Magazine)
http://www.myspace.com/evgenijvkharitonov (Sound Poetry Page)
Email: drugpolushar@yandex.ru | sssr05@yandex.ru
Evgenij says: “In the creativity I use various receptions of visualisation of poetry – from a collage and book art to figured verses, asemic the letter and a linguistic plasticity. Now I give the big preference asemic poetry and scribentismus because they expand semantic space of the traced word, fill linguistic space of a letter with new unpredictable senses. In this brochure I show some of my fresh works concerning to asemic poetry and linguistic plasticity arts.”
“В своем творчестве я использую различные приемы визуализации поэзии – от
коллажа и book art до фигурных стихов, асемического письма и ингвистической
пластики. Сейчас я отдаю большое предпочтение acemic poetry и cribentismus,
потому что они расширяют смысловое пространство начертанного слова, наполняют лингвистическое пространство буквы новыми непредсказуемыми смыслами. В этой брошюре я демонстрирую некоторые мои свежие работы, относящиеся к асемическому письму (acemic poetry) и лингвистической пластике.”
16 full-color pages. $10 (+ s/h)
