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esce il n. 3 della rivista ‘asemica’

Pronto il numero 3 della rivista d’assemblaggio <<Asemica>>.
Dedicato alla scrittura asemantica, questo aperiodico si prefigge di diventare una delle voci di questo (anti)linguaggio segnico attraverso le opere degli artisti invitati.
In questo numero opere di John M. Bennett, Francesca Biasetton, Laura Cingolani, Giuliano Della Casa, Antonio Devicienti, Jean-christophe Giacottino, Fabio Lapiana, Tommasina Bianca Squadrito, Miron Tee e Stephan Wagner.
A corredo del tutto un fascicolo redazionale con testo critico di Sandro Ricaldone, Fantasma e corpo dell’asemico (in cui l’autore indaga le connessioni tra Lettrismo e Scrittura asemica), schede degli autori e foto delle opere.
L’edizione limitatissima è di 40 esemplari, con multipli e pezzi unici numerati e firmati.

<<Asemica>> è presente nelle seguenti collezioni: MART, Rovereto; Biblioteca Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia; Fondazione Berardelli, Brescia; Fondazione Bonotto, Vicenza; Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Monaco; Biblioteca d’Arte di Castello Sforzesco, Milano; Archivio Vincenzo Agnetti, Milano; Museo del Novecento, Milano; Bibliothèque Kandinsky, Centre Pompidou, Parigi; Tate Library, Londra; National Poetry Library, Londra.

Ad oggi hanno partecipato ad <<Asemica>>: Francesco Aprile, Julien Blaine, Antonino Bove, Cristiano Caggiula, Giuseppe Calandriello, Federico Federici, Giovanni Fontana, Marco Giovenale, Lamberto Pignotti, William Xerra, Rosaire Appel, Andrea Astolfi, Tomaso Binga, Mariangela Guatteri, Michael Jacobson, Karri Kokko, Enzo Patti, Giancarlo Pavanello, Antonio Francesco Perozzi e Morten Søndergaard.
Con apparati critici di Cecilia Bello Minciacchi e Ada De Pirro.

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Issue 3 of the assemblage magazine <<Asemica>> is ready.
Dedicated to asemic writing, this aperiodical aims to become one of the voices of this (anti)sign language through the works of the invited artists.
In this issue works by John M. Bennett, Francesca Biasetton, Laura Cingolani, Giuliano Della Casa, Antonio Devicienti, Jean-Christophe Giacottino, Fabio Lapiana, Tommasina Bianca Squadrito, Miron Tee and Stephan Wagner
It is accompanied by an editorial booklet with a critical text by Sandro Ricaldone “Fantasma e corpo dell’asemico” (Phantom and Body of the Asemic) (in which the author investigates the connections between Lettrism and Asemic Writing), author profiles and photos of the works.
The limited edition is 40 copies, with multiples and unique pieces numbered and signed.

<<Asemica>> can be found in the following collections: MART, Rovereto; Biblioteca Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia; Fondazione Berardelli, Brescia; Fondazione Bonotto, Vicenza; Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich; Biblioteca d’Arte di Castello Sforzesco, Milan; Archivio Vincenzo Agnetti, Milan; Museo del Novecento, Milan; Bibliothèque Kandinsky, Centre Pompidou, Paris; Tate Library, London; National Poetry Library, London.

Participants in <<Asemica>> to date include: Francesco Aprile, Julien Blaine, Antonino Bove, Cristiano Caggiula, Giuseppe Calandriello, Federico Federici, Giovanni Fontana, Marco Giovenale, Lamberto Pignotti, William Xerra, Rosaire Appel, Andrea Astolfi, Tomaso Binga, Mariangela Guatteri, Michael Jacobson, Karri Kokko, Enzo Patti, Giancarlo Pavanello, Antonio Francesco Perozzi and Morten Søndergaard.
With critical apparatus by Cecilia Bello Minciacchi and Ada De Pirro.

‘utsanga’: online i numeri 37 e 38

Sono ora online i numeri 37 e 38, settembre e dicembre 2023 di https://utsanga.it, con:

Cristiano Caggiula, Vinni Correa, Volodymyr Bilyk, Paul Hertz, OmarOmar, Oronzo Liuzzi, Mark Young, Stephen Bett, Keith McKay, Giulia Fancinelli, Carmine Lubrano, John M. Bennett, Jim Leftwich, Andrea Astolfi, Mauro Dal Fior, Francesco Aprile, Daidi Hu, Catherine Mehrl Bennett, Diktgymnasiet, Devis Bergantin, Ted Byrne, Donato Mancini, Dixie Denman Junius, Kristine Snodgrass, Élodie Rougeaux-Léaux, Jatun Risba, Enzo Patti, Attivissimo, Antonio Amendola, Alessia Bruno, Nicolò D’Alessandro.

https://www.utsanga.it/

online i numeri 35 e 36 di ‘utsanga’

www.utsanga.it (utsanga.it) – online i numeri 35 e 36 (marzo/giugno 2023) con: Francesco Aprile, Cristiano Caggiula, Texas Fontanella, Michael Betancourt, Leah Singer, Silvio De Gracia, Ana Montenegro, Viviane Houle, James Falzone, Sylvain Darrifourcq, Lina Allemano, James Meger, Sissel Vera Pettersen, GAP – Global Art Project, Carl Heyward, Wellington Amancio, Gianluigi Balsebre, Fabio Orecchini, Anthony Villareal, Stefano Balice, Michael Orr, Cecelia Chapman, Sacha Archer, Michael Casteels, Mitsuko Brooks, Osvaldo Cibils, Sandra Branca, Stephen Nelson, Meghan Romance, Anna Boschi Cermasi, John M. Bennett, Donato Di Poce, Riccardo Renzi, Elena Marini, Sarenco, Carlo Bugli, Giorgio Moio, Ebon Heat, Alfonso Lentini, Gianluca Garrapa, Angelo Ricciardi, Mark Young, Volodymyr Bilyk, Daniel Y. Harris, Irene Koronas, Antonio Devicienti, Ilyas Kassam, Nico Vassilakis, Dave Read, David A. Bishop, Oronzo Liuzzi, Djavam Damasceno, Grzegorz Wroblewski, Terri Witek, Antonio Amendola.

issue #70 of ‘otoliths’ is now live [and, sadly, it’s the last issue]

Issue seventy, the southern winter, 2023, of Otoliths is now live. This last issue is immense & ranges from the dunes of Oceano across to the battlefields of Ukraine, from Scandinavia down to the unceded lands of South Australia. It contains reviews, memoirs, collages, photographs, paintings, vispo, text poems, short stories, videos, combinations of the preceding plus a few other things. Included are Satu Kaikkonen, Martin Edmond, Scott MacLeod, Ian Ganassi, Stephen Bett, Eric Hoffman, R L Swihart, S. K. Kelen, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Jack Galmitz, Bob Kotyk, Jon Wesick, Marzi Margo, Daniel Lehan, Vernon Frazer, Thomas M. McDade, Jennifer Weigel, Giovanni Fontana, Carlyle Baker, Laurie Kuntz, Lynn Strongin, Sanjeev Sethi, Christopher Barnes, Ferran Destemple, Vaishnavi Kolluru, Brandstifter, C. Mehrl Bennett, & John M. Bennett, Marc Isaac Potter, Texas Fontanella, John Bradley, Laura Jeannerette, Heath Brougher, Nate Logan, Paul Perilli, Joseph Buehler, Mike Callaghan, Benjamin Bennett-Carpenter, Paul Dickey, Yuan Changming, Grzegorz Wróblewski, Christian ALLE, Bill Yarrow, Jim Leftwich, Dale Jensen, Judith Roitman, Richard Kostelanetz, Laurent Grison, Maileen Hamto, Sabine Miller, Alison Ross, Javant Biarujia, Carla Bertola, Alberto Vitacchio, Nathan Anderson, Ken Poyner, Jim Meirose, Márton Koppány, Tom Formaro, John M. Bennett (Vispo), Patrick Sweeney, Pamela Miller, petro c. k., Karen J. Weyant, C. Mehrl Bennett, m@, Kirsty Lewin, Hrishikesh Srinivas, József Bíró, Daniel Barbiero, Rus Khomutoff, Pat Nolan, Kimberly Kuchar, Randee Silv, DS Maolalai, Michael J. Leach, Mark Cunningham, Dmitriy Shandra, Carol Stetser, Sterling Warner, Texas Fontanella & Michael Orr, David Wolf, Dave Read, Sheila E. Murphy, Sheila E. Murphy & K.S. Ernst, Tony Beyer, harry k stammer, John M. Bennett (text poetry), Tom Beckett, Rosella Quintini, Michael Gottlieb, Karl Kempton, Joshua Martin, Cecelia Chapman, Mark DuCharme, Réka Nyitrai, jim mccrary, Doren Robbins, Philip Kobylarz, George Myers Jr., Adam Fieled, Hugh Tribbey, Alan Chong Lau, Jacklyn Henry, Harrison Fisher, Kenneth Rexroth, Thomas Fink, Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal, Ed Go, Pete Spence, Adriána Kóbor, Jerome Berglund, Roberta Beach Jacobson, Joseph Salvatore Aversano, Jeff Harrison, Stephen Nelson, Joe Balaz, Bob Heman, Bob Lucky, Liz Teuber, John McCluskey, Gavin Lucky, Elaine Woo, Rahul Santhanam, Debbie Strange, Steve Carll, Diana Magallón, Opal Louis Nations & Peter Cherches, KJ Hannah Greenberg, Susan Gangel, Jeff Bagato, Nathan Whiting, Guy R. Beining, Tim Frank, John Levy & Alan Chong Lau, Linda King, J.I. Kleinberg, Ella O’Keefe & Tim Wright, Jurate Sasnaitis, Hifsa Ashraf and R.C. Thomas, Harvey Huddleston, Glenn Ingersoll, David A. Bishop, dan raphael, Dennis Andrew S. Aguinaldo, Karl Kempton ( a review), Jonathan Cant, Pam Brown, Penelope Weiss, Bernie Earley, Keith Nunes, Anne-Marie Jeanjean, Eddie Heaton, Robert Burton, Alan Catlin, John Kucera, Steven Salmoni, Jessica Grim, Rick Henry, Cherie Hunter Day, Pete Smith, Tony Cosentino & K.S. Ernst, K.S. Ernst, Charles Freeland, Tejaswinee Roychowdhury, Jane Downing, David Jalajel, Antonio Devicienti, Eileen R. Tabios, Damon Hubbs, Eric Lunde, John Tustin, Robert Frede Kenter, Keith Higginbotham, John Digby & Bill Wolak, Bill Wolak, berni m janssen, Jill Jones, Barnaby Smith, Marty Hiatt, Peter Yovu, Mark DeCarteret, Mark DeCarteret & Wayne Atherton, Bruno Neiva, Susan Connolly, Irmak Canevi, Irena Tall, Michael Vecchio, John Levy, Tatiana Novikova, Caitlyn Steer, Edward Kulemin, Olchar E. Lindsann, Matthew Platakos, Jessica Dejanovic, Colleen Woods, Sarah Legow, Bobbi Lurie, Rico Cleffi, Linda M. Walker, Pearl Button, Kit Kennedy, J. D. Nelson, Mark Melnicove, nick nelson, fred flynn, Paul Pfleuger, Jr., Cy Forrest, nicky melville, Edinburgh Mews, Volodymyr Bilyk, Marcia Arrieta, Makenzie Matthews-Beard, & Mark Young.

!! THANKS TO MARK YOUNG FOR HIS WORK AND GENEROSITY THROUGH THE YEARS !!

issue #18 of buzdokuz is out

The 18th Issue of Buzdokuz Poetry Theory Criticism Magazine is Out Now.

Buzdokuz, which has prepared product-based issues for experimental art/poetry in addition to theoretical files, focused on “asemic”, “glitch”, “language-based art”, and this time on Found Poetry.

Buzdokuz opens with Burak Ş. Çelik‘s introduction, who is the editor of the 18th issue of Buzdokuz.

Next comes the ESC section with examples of Found Poetry. Artists and poets who participated in our Found Poetry file with their works: James Knight + Nilgün Yılmaz + Serdar Süalp + Astra Papachristodoulou + Nur Alan + John M. Bennett + Burak Ş. Çelik + Jeff Nimp + Muhammed Yusuf Aktekin + Işık Sungurlar + Hafize Çetinkaya + Mert Özden + Ayşe Kongur + Jim Leftwich + Laura Kerr + Stathis Dimitriadis.

Rafet Arslan, Laura Kerr, Marco Giovenale, John M. Bennett, Alper Aydın and Jeff Nimp join our Found Poetry inquiry in the INSERT section with their responses. Hakan Şarkdemir discusses the theoretical and political aspects of the concept of “Found” in his article titled “Did the train run away? On Found Poetry”.

Cover by Burak Ş. Çelik.

buzdokuz.com

a few links about asemic comics

Andrei Molotiu‘s Abstract Comics blog
http://abstractcomics.blogspot.com/

Gene Kannenberg Jr, Comics Machine: Abstract and Asemic Comics
https://comicsmachine.com/
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/jdw_exhibits/12/

Gene Kannenberg Jr, Comics:
https://comicsmachine.bigcartel.com/

Gene Kannenberg Jr, Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/genekjr/

Daniel Marrone, PhD Sheridan College:
“Baroque Asemia: Asemic Writing, Abstract Comics, and the Limits of Legibility”
abstract:
https://www.humber.ca/tifa/understanding-and-expression

Three Asemic Cartoons from John M. Bennett and Jeff Crouch
http://thenewpostliterate.blogspot.com/2020/12/three-asemic-cartoons-from-john-m.html

Sven Staelen‘s blog, “asemic comics” category:
https://tekens.wordpress.com/category/abstract-comics/

Barbara Brownie: “Alien Scripts: Pseudo-Writing and Asemisis in Comics and Graphic Novels”
abstract:
https://uhra.herts.ac.uk/handle/2299/21939?show=full
text:
https://www.academia.edu/6903409/Alien_Scripts_Pseudo_Writing_and_Asemisis_in_Comics_and_Graphic_Novels

some links abt asemic stuff:
https://slowforward.net/2022/05/01/asemic-writing-essentials-incomplete/

1nd3x
Asemic Graffiti Writings On Symbolist Paintings’ Book
https://www.1nd3x.com/2/3/asemic-graffiti-writings-on-symbolist-paintings-book/

‘otoliths’, issue #68, now live

Otoliths sixty-eight, the southern summer issue, is now live.

It contains various forms of text poetry, photographs, essays, paintings, flash fiction, vispo, short stories, collages, & journal columns from Michael Ruby, Karl Kempton, Robin Wyatt Dunn, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Sanjeev Sethi, Richard Kostelanetz, Margaret Karmazin, Judith Skillman, Robert Lietz, Nico Vassilakis, Ken Poyner, Roberta Beach Jacobson, Mehreen Ahmed, Alexander Lazarus Wolff, Mario José Cervantes, Tom Beckett, KJ Hannah Greenberg, Robert Ronnow, Harrison Fisher, Ruggero Maggi, Michael Orr & Texas Fontanella, Owen Bullock, Grzegorz Wróblewski, Lachlan J McDougall, Jim Leftwich, Olchar E. Lindsann, Henry Felerski, Jennifer Weigel, Joel Chace, Daniel Barbiero, Doren Robbins, Jack Galmitz, Clara B. Jones, Tony Beyer, Gao An, Daniel f Bradley, Keith McKay, John M. Bennett, John M. Bennett & Jim Leftwich, Stacey Allam & John M. Bennett, Todd Matson, petro c. k., Nathan Anderson, Eric Hoffman, Texas Fontanella & John M. Bennett, John Tustin, Martin Edmond, Michael Neal Morris, R L Swihart, Dave Read, Thomas Fink, Rich Murphy, Carol Stetser, John Bradley, Pat Nolan, Pete Spence, Jeff Harrison, Vernon Frazer, Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal, Peter Cherches, Mayu Kanamori, Damon Hubbs, Paul Dickey, Joshua Martin, Alan Catlin, Bob Lucky, Communications Arts Students at U. P. Los Baños, Ian Willey, Diana Magallón, Laurent Grison, Jim Meirose, Nicholas Wright, Dzenis Burzic & Texas Fontanella, Sanket Mhatre, Louis Armand, Michael J. Leach, Rose Knapp, Keith Nunes, Oz Hardwick, Mark DuCharme, Maggie Yang, Jon Cone, Richard Magahiz, Michael Battisto, John Digby & Bill Wolak, Bill Wolak, Susan Gangel, Vassilis Zambaras, Stephen C. Middleton, Christopher Barnes, Andrew Maximilian Niss, Elmedin Kadric, Kevin Browne, David A. Bishop, Patrick Sweeney, Stephen Mead, Hrishikesh Srinivas, Jared Chipkin, M.J. Iuppa, Linda King, Steven Waling, Kenneth Rexroth, Jen Schneider, Elena Zalogina, Heath Brougher, Jeff Bagato, Penelope Weiss, Marilyn Stablein, John Levy, Eileen Woo, Edward Kulemin, Lawrence R. Smith, Cherie Hunter Day, Kit Kennedy, Paul Ilechko, Keith Higginbotham, Antonio Devicienti, Bob Heman, James Hannon, J. D. Nelson, Joseph Salvatore Aversano, Nathan Whiting, Isabel Gómez de Diego, Daniel de Culla, Mark DeCarteret, Marzi Margo, John Vieira, Lorraine Caputo, Marcia Arrieta, Mark Blaeuer, Tim Suermondt, Texas Fontanella & Chris Edwards, Mariel Herbert, David Jalajel, Peter Yovu, Sheila E. Murphy, Rico Cleffi, nicky melville, Edinburgh Mews, Paul Pfleuger, Jr., bart plantenga, Roger Mitchell, Angelo ‘NGE’ Colella, Réka Nyitrai, Adriána Kóbor, Michael Moreth, Eileen R. Tabios, & Márton Koppány.

‘utsanga’: online i numeri 33 e 34

utsanga.it : sono online i numeri 33 e 34, settembre/dicembre 2022, con:
Francesco Massaro, Egidio Marullo, Carl Heyward, globalartproject, Francesco Aprile, Michael Betancourt, Silvio De Gracia, Ana Montenegro, Francesco Deotto, Lia Petrelli, Terri Witek, Antonio Devicienti, Nico Vassilakis, Volodymyr Bilyk, Antonio Amendola, Cecelia Chapman, Jeff Crouch, John M. Bennett, Texas Fontanella, Mark Young, Santiago Ortiz, Alina Applauso, Matthew Kay, Miron Tee, Lina Stern, Lorenzo Baldassarre, Marjan Zahed-Kindersley, Giovanni Cardone, Lucinda Sherlock, Grzegorz Wróblewski, Meghan Romance, Jim Wittenberg, Nelly Gérouard, Thomas Seto, Luc Fierens, MoMo, Rosa Gravino, Giorgio Moio, Richard Kostelanetz, Oronzo Liuzzi, Cesare Minutello, Alfonso Marino, Tulio Restrepo Echeverri

otoliths, issue #67

Issue sixty-seven of Otoliths, the southern spring, 2022 issue, is now live.

A little bit larger than normal, it contains the usual wide variety of work, this time from Judith Skillman, Elisa C. Martínez Salazar, Cecelia Chapman & Jeff Crouch, Paul Siegell, Michael Orr & Texas Fontanella, Peter Yovu, Anna Cates, Sanjeev Sethi, Kyle Hemmings, Riccardo Benzina, Steven Bruce, CL Bledsoe, Texas Fontanella, Alan Catlin, David Miller, Craig Cotter, Ali Zarbali, Sharon H. Frost, Dale Jensen, Eric Hoffman, Lynn Strongin, Karl Kempton, Paul Dickey, Jack Galmitz, Gao An, Stacey Allam & John M. Bennett, John M. Bennett, Ioan Bunus & John M. Bennett, Bob Kotyk, Michael J. Leach, petro c. k., Maria Giesbrecht, Richard Kostelanetz, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, KJ Hannah Greenberg, Grzegorz Wróblewski, Jimmy Crouse, Nathan Anderson, Daniel de Culla, John Geraets, Jennifer Weigel, Judith Roitman, Ivars Balkits, Rob Martelli, Tohm Bakelas, Elaine Woo, Michael Sikkema, Livio Farallo, Diana Magallón, Jim Meirose, Carol Stetser, Eric Lunde, Sheila E. Murphy, dan raphael, Richard Magahiz, Daniel Barbiero, Pawel Markiewicz, Lawrence R. Smith, Mike Callaghan, John Tustin, George Myers Jr., Mark Pirie, James Grabill, Caleb Puckett, Damon Hubbs, Tim Gaze, Marilyn R. Rosenberg & Ann R. Shapiro, Mark Danowsky, Piet Nieuwland, Christopher Barnes, Guy R. Beining, Harvey Huddleston, Sterling Warner, Pete Spence, Julia Vaughan, Lewis LaCook, Dave Read, Susan Gangel & Ken Hay, Benjamin Niespodziany, Jim Leftwich, Joanne Bechtel, Brooks Lampe, Olchar E. Lindsann, John Digby & Bill Wolak, Linda M. Walker, Maximilian Speicher, Lucia Sapienza, LUNE OFFLINE, Samarra Prahlad, Gavin Lucky, Tom Beckett, Jeff Harrison, Bill Wolak, James Yeary, Joshua Martin, Uvia Shcho, Antonio Devicienti, Mark Cunningham, Carla Bertola, Alberto Vitacchio & Carla Bertola, Mercedes Webb-Pullman, Edward Kulemin, Nicholas Alexander Hayes, harry k stammer, Kenneth Rexroth, Jeff Bagato, Nathan Whiting, Catherine Eaton Skinner, Eileen R. Tabios, Mark Yale Harris, Heath Brougher, Natalie Christensen, Vernon Frazer, Bob Lucky, Daniel f Bradley, Heather M. Browne, Marcia Arrieta, Patrick Sweeney, John Levy, Glenn Ingersoll, Michael Ruby, Hrishikesh Srinivas, J.I. Kleinberg, Kit Kennedy, Caleb Fenez, Keith Nunes, Marilyn Stablein, Cecelia Chapman, M.J. Iuppa, Daniel Lehan, Elmedin Kadric, Hubert Kretschmer & Jürgen O. Olbrich, Penelope Weiss, Siân Vate, Elena Zalogina, Jill Jones, Alan Peat & Réka Nyitrai, Réka Nyitrai, hiromi suzuki, Thomas Camus, Barnaby Smith, J. D. Nelson, K. Roberts, Dennis Andrew S. Aguinaldo, Peter Cherches, Cherie Hunter Day, Keith Higginbotham, Angelo ‘NGE’ Colella, Darrell Petska, David Jalajel, Paul Pfleuger, Jr., & Jim Leftwich & John M. Bennett.

“the last vispo anthology” (fantagraphics, 2012), edited by nico vassilakis and crag hill: freely downloadable at archive.org

The Last Vispo Anthology (1998-2008) is here (since April, 21st):

and also here:

LAST VISPO

INDEX OF POETS:
Andrew Abbott, Fernando Aguiar, Sonja Ahlers, Charles Alexander, Reed Altemus, mIEKAL aND, Bruce Andrews, Dirk Rowntree, Jim Andrews, Hartmut Andryczuk, Marcia Arrieta, Dmitry Babenko, Petra Backonja, Gary Barwin, Michael Basinski, Guy R Beining, Derek Beaulieu, Marc Bell, Jason McLean, C Merhl Bennett, John M Bennett, Carla Bertola, Julien Blaine, Jaap Blonk, Christian Bök, Daniel f. Bradley, Nancy Burr, John Byrum, J. M. Calleja, Mike Cannell, David Baptiste Chirot, Peter Ciccariello, Jo Cook, Judith Copithorne, Holly Crawford, Maria Damon, Klaus Peter Dencker, Brian Dettmer, Fabio Doctorovich, Bill DiMichele, Johanna Drucker, Amanda Earl, Shayne Ehman, endwar, K. S. Ernst, Eva O Ettel, Greg Evason, Oded Ezer, Jesse Ferguson, Cesar Figueirdo, Luc Fierens, Peter Frank, Tim Gaze, Angela Genusa, Marco Giovenale, Jesse Glass, Robert Grenier, Bob Grumman, Ladislao Pablo Györi, Sharon Harris, Scott Helmes, Crag Hill, Bill Howe, Geof Huth, Serkan Isin, Gareth Jenkins, Michael Jacobson, Miguel Jimenez, Karl Jirgens, Alexander Jorgensen, Chris Joseph, Despina Kannaourou, Andreas Kahre, Satu Kaikkonen, Karl Kempton, Joseph Keppler, Roberto Keppler, Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, Anatol Knotek, Márton Koppány, Richard Kostelanetz, Gyorgy Kostritski, Dirk Krecker, Edward Kulemin, Paul Lambert, Jim Leftwich, The Lions, Joel Lipman, Sveta Litvak, Troy Lloyd, damian lopes, Carlos M Luis, Donato Mancini, Chris Mann, Bill Marsh, Kaz Maslanka, Robert Mittenthal, Gustave Morin, Sheila Murphy, Keiichi Nakamura, Stephen Nelson, Marko Niemi, Rea Nikonova, Juergen O. Olbrich, Christopher Olson, David Ostrem, mARK oWEns, Clemente Padin, Michael Peters, Nick Piombino, Hugo Pontes, Ross Priddle, e. k. rzepka, Marilyn R. Rosenberg, Jenny Sampirisi, Suzan Sari, R Saunders, Michael V. Smith, David Ellingsen, Serge Segay, Spencer Selby, Douglas Spangle, Litsa Spathi, Pete Spence, Matina L. Stamatakis, Carol Stetser, Ficus Strangulensis, W. Mark Sutherland, Thomas Lowe Taylor, Miroljub Todorovic, Andrew Topel, Cecil Touchon, Aysegul Tozeren, e. g. vajda, Nico Vassilakis, John Vieira, Stephen Vincent, Alberto Vitacchio, Cornelis Vleeskens, Derya Vural, Ted Warnell, Irving Weiss, Helen White, Tim Willette, Reid Wood, James Yeary, Karl Young, Mark Young

desemantized writing in the journals of allen ginsberg and william burroughs / jim leftwich. 2022

pdf @ slowforward:
https://slowforward.files.wordpress.com/2022/08/jim-leftwich_-desemantized-writing-in-the-journals-of-allen-ginsberg-and-william-burroughs.pdf

jim leftwich — eleven books

8 books by Jim Leftwich from Luna Bisonte Prods
1 by Jim Leftwich and Steve Dalachinsky from Luna Bisonte Prods
1 by Jim Leftwich from Locofo Chaps
& 1 by Jim Leftwich from mOnocle-Lash

Luna Bisonte Prods is at Small Press Distribution

Jim Leftwich
Tres tresss trisss trieesss tril trilssss: Transmutations of César Vallejo
January 2018

Jim Leftwich’s transmutations (not translations) of the poetry of César Vallejo are nothing short of brilliant. They feel more Vallejo in English than any previous translations ever have . Vallejo is certainly, bar none, among the greatest poets of the 20th century. Human, more than immediately human, tortured, both baroque and surreal, and lyrical beyond compare, his poetry defies translation, so difficult does it appear at times. This is especially the case with his early work Trilce (Tres tresss trisss treesss tril trilssss, as Leftwich’s title has it). Claimed by the surrealists as a master in that genre, Vallejo is that and more than that, opaque as Góngora or bittersweetly acerbic as Lorca, the complexity of his language and imagery find few parallels (the poetry of Dino Campana’s Canti orfici leaps to mind). Leftwich has created a Vallejo more Vallejo than Vallejo at times, and certainly makes for far more interesting and challenging a read than, for example, the deliberately strained translations of Clayton Eshelman. Leftwich, a poet renowned in his own way for complexity and baffling linguistic virtuosity, has certainly found an equal, a compatriot, one might say, in Vallejo. These transmutations have all the speed, energy and enigmatic beauty of the originals on which they are based. The foreword by Retorico Unentesi is also something to be savored for its rich and layered interpretations. -Ivan Arguelles

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asemic writing as a kind of poetry / jim leftwich. 2022

Jim Leftwich

Asemic Writing Is A Kind Of Poetry
Summer 2022 / Utah

If, at times (if not, in fact, all the time), it must seem as if I have no idea what asemic writing is, I can only defend myself through an appeal to my experience of the theory and the practice: asemic writing came into my life as a continuation and an extension of my practice as a poet.

I wrote textual poetry for a little over twenty years before I started making visual poems. After making visual poems for a few years, I started making what was originally called spirit writing (by John M. Bennett, in his capacity as the editor of Lost and Found Times, a magazine of experimental poetry and related matters).

That was in 1997. The following year, Tim Gaze published a small chapbook of my quasi-calligraphic scribblings entitled Spirit Writing. Maybe I didn’t know what I was doing at the time (the theory and history came later), but I had no reason to think of this new development in my work as anything other than poetry.

These days, and maybe for the past fifteen years or so, it seems that very few theorists or practitioners think of asemic writing as a kind of poetry.

Asemic writing, as a kind of poetry, is all but limitless in its potential. We should take the same sort of approach to it’s study. For example: I have been told that asemic writing is all about linguistics. I have no doubt that the study of linguistics, and the application of that study to an engagement with asemic writing, will add substantially to our understanding of the subject. But, as with all other varieties of poetry, linguistics is only one among very many approaches to the study of asemic writing.

I am never interested in having the last word on any of these matters. Maybe I am interested in having the next word — and then, in having had some of the recent words. The conversation around asemic writing is ongoing and, like all conversations around all varieties of poetry, it seems to have no necessary or inevitable end. I am interested in expanding the spectrum of acceptable discourse concerning the subject of asemic writing. I hope my writings on the subject will function as invitations to others to participate in this process.

è online utsanga #32

www.utsanga.it online il numero 32, giugno 2022, con opere di:
Anna Boschi Cermasi, Francesco Aprile, Gianluca Garrapa, Andrea Astolfi, Antonio Francesco Perozzi, Almandrade Andrade, Silvio De Gracia, Alejandro Thornton, Belén Gache, Claudio Mangifesta, Débora Daich, Fabio Doctorovich, Luis Pazos, Norberto José Martínez, Michael Betancourt , Terri Witek, Jim Leftwich, Ilyas Kassam, Ronald Lubega, Hannah Mitchell, Yuri Bruscky, Andrea Alzati, Stefano Lanuzza, Giuseppe Calandriello, San Giorgio Cibernetico, Carlo Bugli, Cecelia Chapman, Francesco Cane Barca, Volodymyr Bilyk, Baiwei, Paolo Allegrezza, Carmine Lubrano, Julia Rende, Mark Young, Richard Kostelanetz, Dawn Nelson Wardrope, Stephen Nelson, Antonio Devicienti, Texas Fontanella, John M. Bennett, Mario José Cervantes Mendoza, Vincenzo Lagalla

‘die leere mitte’, issue #14

In this issue: Werner Preuß, Massimiliano Damaggio, Antonio Devicienti, John M. Bennett, Jason Heroux, John Grey, Daniel Barbare, Mark Young, Joshua Martin, Steffen M. Diebold, Joseph Salvatore Aversano, Patrick Sweeney.