tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8155869654123851542024-03-15T18:10:54.317-07:00Post-Asemic PressA Publisher of Asemic Writing & BeyondMichael Jacobson / MK JCBSNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07263168801773307708noreply@blogger.comBlogger175125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-815586965412385154.post-5808472719825215632024-03-03T16:13:00.000-08:002024-03-03T16:13:28.404-08:00Woodhouse Moor 0424-0436am by Michael Sutton is out Now at the PAP Bandcamp Site!<p> </p>
<iframe seamless="" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2727149960/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/transparent=true/" style="border: 0; height: 680px; width: 560px;"><a href="https://post-asemicpress.bandcamp.com/album/woodhouse-moor-0424-0436am">Woodhouse Moor 0424-0436am by Michael Sutton</a></iframe><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Just released from Post-Asemic Press: <b><i>Woodhouse Moor 0424-0436am</i></b> by Michael Sutton. This is an exciting addition to the PAP Bandcamp site. The album collects 4 tracks of sonic innovation. In the true spirit of sound poetry, Michael's works vocally jam with spontaneity and dissonance. These poems sound psychologically distressed in the best possible way possible. <a href="https://post-asemicpress.bandcamp.com/album/woodhouse-moor-0424-0436am" target="_blank">Click here to check out the album</a>.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">BIO: Michael Sutton is a poet and artist based in Leeds. His most recent book is Unwelcome Combine (Paper View Books, 2024). He also edits Overground Underground journal and press.</span></div>Michael Jacobson / MK JCBSNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07263168801773307708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-815586965412385154.post-17122817246738359802023-12-09T19:04:00.000-08:002023-12-09T19:04:04.608-08:00ZIPPOGLYPHS by Michael Jacobson<p> </p> <iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/F7gsjwY8kns?si=XmBtAuY6N0Lp4EW1" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>Michael Jacobson / MK JCBSNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07263168801773307708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-815586965412385154.post-44139170222225122252023-11-23T08:33:00.000-08:002023-11-23T08:33:14.429-08:00GRADIENTS by Kristine Snodgrass is Out Now @ Amazon! Post-Asemic Press #026<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjefNB4hLAgK6-gNXbYFCB5EvAU7rYWv0E4Z19zq0V2Z4NYDSEvuxJJ5l6Q0MYv0PC_kpHjtLJ_M_fCBg5VJOD0GWtg5rG3tN074m82eSU5ULx969bwtBuWvCXWXQO6FamgbXNczzG4cUG2Hkyw4R7v9MpNkB75xhCsgOpEC1H8NiCHNIPJxwrGfYvWSugp/s2775/gradientsfrontcover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2775" data-original-width="1860" height="453" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjefNB4hLAgK6-gNXbYFCB5EvAU7rYWv0E4Z19zq0V2Z4NYDSEvuxJJ5l6Q0MYv0PC_kpHjtLJ_M_fCBg5VJOD0GWtg5rG3tN074m82eSU5ULx969bwtBuWvCXWXQO6FamgbXNczzG4cUG2Hkyw4R7v9MpNkB75xhCsgOpEC1H8NiCHNIPJxwrGfYvWSugp/w303-h453/gradientsfrontcover.jpg" width="303" /></a></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Out now from Post-Asemic Press, <b><i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Gradients-Kristine-Snodgrass/dp/1736614754/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1OWNS1WRV6KND&keywords=gradients+kristine+snodgrass&qid=1700700197&sprefix=%2Caps%2C162&sr=8-1" target="_blank">Gradients</a></i></b> by Kristine Snodgrass! </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">She best explains the book here:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important; font-weight: 700 !important;">"Gradients</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> is a book of digital transmographications of asemics tattooed and drawn on the poet’s body. The work plays with mutations, embellishment, ritual, and collaboration with artists and tattoo artists. This book offers a moment to look at the process and images that resulted."</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Snodgrass’s </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;"><b>Gradients</b></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> is a haunting series of visual poems, examining the relationships between images and ideologies, particularly the misogynistic currents in American commercial discourse and its depictions of femininity. Asemic poems, written or tattooed directly onto the poet’s body, are photographed and then transformed by the poet through glitching. The resulting “Gradients” allow perversely fascinating visions of societal structures that emerge from obliterations of the female form. The reader is at once reminded of the ideological implications of any image, so often and so easily overlooked and accepted, as well as the role of the viewer in creating the real world effects of these implications. It is an astonishing book!” </span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">–Andrew Brenza</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">“In the twisted cosmic dance of cannibalistic energies, Kristine Snodgrass’ </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Gradients</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> emerges as a frenzied feast for the senses. It devours the boundaries of perception, consuming the flesh of conventional art forms and regurgitating a psychedelic organ traffic of raw expression. Through glitched visions and asemic transgressions, it devours the oppressive structures that confine us, devouring them with insatiable hunger. Within Gradients, the body becomes an altar of consumption, where tattoos and asemic writings are etched upon the skin, merging with the very essence of existence. It is a ritual of devouring, a carnal communion with the chaotic forces that reside within. The colors bleed and merge, swirling in a cosmic maelstrom of ecstasy and despair, as the boundaries between self and other dissolve into an abyss of cosmic cannibalism. The images and collages pulsate with an unearthly vitality, drawing us into a vortex of fragmented realities. It is a visual chaos, where the grotesque and the beautiful intertwine in an intricate dance of creation and destruction. </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Gradients</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> devours the limitations of perception, transcending the confines of the known universe and plunging us into the depths of cosmic cannibalism. In this swirling chaos, pain and pleasure intertwine, merging into a sublime ecstasy that defies comprehension. It is a journey into the darkest recesses of the psyche, where the primal urges of consumption and creation merge into a singular cosmic act. </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Gradients</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> is a testament to the insatiable hunger of the creative spirit, a feast for those willing to abandon the safety of the known and embrace the devouring embrace of cosmic cannibalism.”</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">—Kenji Siratori, author of </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Blood Electric</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> and </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;">Paracelsus</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important;"></span></p><h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 4px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Product details</h2><ul class="a-unordered-list a-nostyle a-vertical a-spacing-none detail-bullet-list" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1px 18px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important;">Publisher : </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Post-Asemic Press (November 15, 2023)</span></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important;">Language : </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">English</span></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important;">Paperback : </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">64 pages</span></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important;">ISBN-10 : </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">1736614754</span></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important;">ISBN-13 : </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">978-1736614754</span></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important;">Reading age : </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">16 - + years</span></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important;">Item Weight : </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">5.3 ounces</span></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important;">Dimensions : </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">6 x 0.16 x 9 inches</span></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Price </b>: $16.00</span></li></ul><div><span style="color: #0f1111; 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margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL17LICeVaTL_BD44qiirHqBJ-X6azya3_O4luJ0WVY1IQGeGt07fEZb0LaxOLLOWnWqJ4MwMbSx6KsZ0JNnqPce001TjwLKqY1NppYsAgvtLk5DWzW2_8ZNJS2FJlshULD3oejtGJqKCvquj6nOL6agizgAOr1KN2uTyllI-Y4D4EmvJ-qYJJ5Ir9r8N4/s960/403641536_314736421448060_7336682530684718366_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="950" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL17LICeVaTL_BD44qiirHqBJ-X6azya3_O4luJ0WVY1IQGeGt07fEZb0LaxOLLOWnWqJ4MwMbSx6KsZ0JNnqPce001TjwLKqY1NppYsAgvtLk5DWzW2_8ZNJS2FJlshULD3oejtGJqKCvquj6nOL6agizgAOr1KN2uTyllI-Y4D4EmvJ-qYJJ5Ir9r8N4/s320/403641536_314736421448060_7336682530684718366_n.jpg" width="317" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><span style="font-size: large;">Bio: </span><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Snodgrass is an artist, poet, professor, editor, cultural advocate, and publisher living in Tallahassee, Florida. Her written and visual works have appeared world-wide. She has collaborated with dozens of artists, writers, and musicians. She is the author of over 20 books and chapbooks most recently, <b><i>GRADIENTS</i></b>, forthcoming from Post Asemic Press. She founded the group, Women Asemic Artists and Visual Poets, a global network that connects women in the visual poetry field. Kristine is Associate Professor of English in the field of creative writing at Florida A&M University. You can find more about her at kristinesnodgrass.com.</span></div><div><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="x78zum5 xh8yej3" role="none" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; display: flex; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; width: 207.674px;"><div class="x1h91t0o xkh2ocl x78zum5 xdt5ytf x13a6bvl x193iq5w x1iyjqo2 xcrg951" role="none" style="align-items: inherit; align-self: stretch; background-color: var(--messenger-card-background); display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; font-family: inherit; justify-content: flex-end; max-width: 100%;"><div class="x1r8uery x1iyjqo2" role="none" style="flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; font-family: inherit;"></div></div></div><div class="x1h91t0o xkh2ocl x78zum5 xdt5ytf x13a6bvl x193iq5w x1c4vz4f xcrg951" role="none" style="align-items: inherit; align-self: stretch; color: #1c1e21; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 0; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; justify-content: flex-end; max-width: 100%;"><div class="x193iq5w x1n2onr6 x1vjfegm xh8yej3" style="font-family: inherit; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: 207.674px; z-index: 1;"><div class="xw5ewwj xh8yej3" style="font-family: inherit; max-width: 300px; width: 207.674px;"><div class="x1gn5b1j x230xth x5yr21d x6ikm8r x10wlt62 xxymvpz x1xr0vuk x13lgxp2 x1lcm9me" style="border-radius: 4px 0px 18px 18px; font-family: inherit; height: 151.979px; overflow: hidden; vertical-align: middle;"><a aria-label="Open attachment" class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz x1heor9g x1lku1pv" href="http://kristinesnodgrass.com/?fbclid=IwAR0gNfzrcWtF3mWN5u54N990RuizocBv_ABHRRlec_7ywTTIXBKXflpddYI" rel="nofollow noreferrer" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="-1" target="_blank"><div class="x78zum5 xdt5ytf x5yr21d" style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; font-family: inherit; height: 151.979px;"><div class="x78zum5 x1n2onr6 xh8yej3" style="display: flex; font-family: inherit; position: relative; width: 207.674px;"><br /></div></div></a></div></div></div></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>Michael Jacobson / MK JCBSNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07263168801773307708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-815586965412385154.post-78656392649569507722023-11-15T11:30:00.000-08:002023-11-15T11:34:54.659-08:00ouou ouou aieae by Bård Torgersen is out now from Post-Asemic Press via Bandcamp!<p><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">Today Post-Asemic Press is excited to release a new sound poetry album titled </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: medium;"><b><i><a href="https://post-asemicpress.bandcamp.com/album/ouou-ouou-aieae" target="_blank">ouou ouou aieae</a> </i></b></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">by Norwegian poet Bård Torgersen. Here he is explaining his work:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u></u> <u></u></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">"Got tired of reading poetry live, so I made my computer read my texts into an old dictaphone. And when I played back these recordings, it could read faster than me, or slower, with an analogue grainy voice. A burden was taken off my shoulders. I liked to hear the small machine read.</span><span class="m_5681839467195578930apple-converted-space" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">The album is all based on the dictaphone recordings. I added some harsh windy textures. And some recordings of things I was throwing around and which then fell apart. I got inspired by a Korean singer I saw in a documentary, communicating with a river. His voice melting with the sound of water. I wanted the record to be hopeful in a smashed kind of way. Like a drunk kid. A happy throat full of mud."</span></span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="m_5681839467195578930apple-converted-space" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="m_5681839467195578930apple-converted-space" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">—Bård Torgersen</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="m_5681839467195578930apple-converted-space" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="m_5681839467195578930apple-converted-space" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">The cover art for the album was created by </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Stener Vaagland.</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="m_5681839467195578930apple-converted-space" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><a href="https://post-asemicpress.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Click here for the Post-Asemic Press Bandcamp site.</a></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="m_5681839467195578930apple-converted-space" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"> </span> </span><div> <iframe seamless="" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3921352599/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/transparent=true/" style="border: 0; height: 680px; width: 560px;"><a href="https://post-asemicpress.bandcamp.com/album/ouou-ouou-aieae">ouou ouou aieae by Bård Torgersen</a></iframe></div></div>Michael Jacobson / MK JCBSNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07263168801773307708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-815586965412385154.post-24148956978609096232023-10-02T09:51:00.001-07:002023-10-02T10:26:03.786-07:00l'nguajamm'r by Mike Di Tommaso is Available Now @ Amazon!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHKbfO89HS-6recSmxJxxwF_tUVb5nPO-DHui5w8xYN2j_U7KphQOFjK_GtkK6HRMCVFPcdOMKoBU90VC9r6XduZuWt62dgU6jyk-yQjFlJ9sDpiE6NjHsevIvoD-5g7Ojdi0n2sNr0EKkeIKBGDnnQBUiQUJe1VHc1LqNwj50U_Uv2G0hosC4lqU7pL2r/s5533/lingjammfrontcover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5533" data-original-width="3746" height="518" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHKbfO89HS-6recSmxJxxwF_tUVb5nPO-DHui5w8xYN2j_U7KphQOFjK_GtkK6HRMCVFPcdOMKoBU90VC9r6XduZuWt62dgU6jyk-yQjFlJ9sDpiE6NjHsevIvoD-5g7Ojdi0n2sNr0EKkeIKBGDnnQBUiQUJe1VHc1LqNwj50U_Uv2G0hosC4lqU7pL2r/w351-h518/lingjammfrontcover.jpg" width="351" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">Mike Di Tommaso's epic poetic work <b><i>l'nguajamm'r</i></b> is available now at <a href="https://www.amazon.com/lnguajammr-Mike-Tommaso/dp/B0CHL5KLLB/ref=sr_1_1?crid=14D4WC1WK2NIX&keywords=l%27nguajamm%27r&qid=1696262706&s=books&sprefix=l%27nguajamm%27r%2Cstripbooks%2C102&sr=1-1" target="_blank">Amazon</a>! The book is a collection of visual poetry, linear poetry, asemic writing, and sound poetry scores. The book also has an extensive introduction by visual poet Geof Huth.</span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic !important; font-weight: 700 !important;">l’nguajamm’r</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> is a view from the broken edge of language. Can language be taken apart? Can it be broken? And what results can come from such a deliberate sabotage of language? What sparks can be produced from the rubbing together the flints of linguistic subversion?</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Within this book are various interrelated avenues of travel, between more linier paths to more intermedia-based approaches ranging from visual poetry that gradates out onto planes of asemia and beyond into the scoring/notation of a poetry of pure sound (if anything is truly pure- this a book of a deeply dirty concrete heritage).</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">This is a book of “language jamming”, of disrupting language. Subverting language, but also embracing it.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">"Mike's never been afraid to fail, ready to pushing the near mint dirt, the kind left on the slave printer, chained to a radiator, somewhere in the UK. This is that kind of book."</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">—Daniel f Bradley</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p style="background-color: white; margin: 0px 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">“This is a book of delicious poems you can feel with the fingers of your eyes & taste with your fingers’ eyes; poems curly as the brain and body electric with reading, page and ink energized, self-aware, delightful and intelligent. This is virtuoso language jamming and Mike Di Tommaso is a virtuoso l’nguajamm’r.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; margin: 0px 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; margin: 0px 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">—Gary Barwin</span></p><p style="background-color: white; margin: 0px 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 4px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Product details</h2><div id="detailBullets_feature_div" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;"><ul class="a-unordered-list a-nostyle a-vertical a-spacing-none detail-bullet-list" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1px 18px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important;">ASIN : </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">B0CHL5KLLB</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important;">Publisher : </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Post-Asemic Press (September 11, 2023)</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important;">Language : </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">English</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important;">Paperback : </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">347 pages</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important;">ISBN-10 : </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">1734866268</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important;">ISBN-13 : </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">978-1734866261</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; 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font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Mike Di Tommaso is a post-avant, intermedia poet working in visual, linear, sound </span><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">and asemic poetry. They have been published in <b><i>The Last Vispo Anthology: Visual</i></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Poetry 1998-2008</i></b>; (Fantagraphics books, 2012) and the anthology </span><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b><i>THEWISDOMOFTHEUNIVERSESINASTRINGOFLETTERS</i></b>; (2015, Xexoxial </span><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">editions, edited by mIKEL aND), <b><i>ASEMIC</i></b> (issue 15). They have also been published</span></div><div><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">online multiple times in <b><i>OTOLITHS</i></b> and <b><i>Word For/Word</i></b>.</span></div><span style="color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></div></div>Michael Jacobson / MK JCBSNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07263168801773307708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-815586965412385154.post-46830506774238839612023-09-13T12:35:00.005-07:002023-09-15T06:20:17.808-07:00id est: neo scribalist asemic expressionism by Michael Jacobson is available now at Amazon! Post-Asemic Press #024<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK94EdN9ONfVxN9bEj1jZIa8k8c1XlGFftjIuC1Nng_UzuMMNX-r63tvlCZsAPsGUIHkRMfVE74QE_VdihfTDi4XpJf9Pqz0LbZCucFpH8u-HbkJKxpNzE47Kxc6FC4_Y4l_SliA_zAnJeOM2GXJrnr5pW8X8oVnk4rcSk0LkMiWACBZ_VPq1txUqGhfQi/s2884/idestcoverfrontcov.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2884" data-original-width="1875" height="520" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK94EdN9ONfVxN9bEj1jZIa8k8c1XlGFftjIuC1Nng_UzuMMNX-r63tvlCZsAPsGUIHkRMfVE74QE_VdihfTDi4XpJf9Pqz0LbZCucFpH8u-HbkJKxpNzE47Kxc6FC4_Y4l_SliA_zAnJeOM2GXJrnr5pW8X8oVnk4rcSk0LkMiWACBZ_VPq1txUqGhfQi/w338-h520/idestcoverfrontcov.jpg" width="338" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i>id est: neo scribalist asemic expressionism</i></b> by Michael Jacobson is available now at <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CHL52X68" target="_blank">Amazon!</a> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic" face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700;">id est: neo scribalist asemic expressionism </span><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;">is a hand painted (with gouache and watercolor pencils) abstract illuminated manuscript. It utilizes asemic writing to tell the story of my psychological journey and final arrival into Agnostic Pantheism; the book is about going through mental hell and emerging as a spiritual survivor. </span><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic" face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700;">id est</span><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;"> contains 73 artworks painted with gouache and water color pencils on water color paper. This work was begun in 2021 and completed in 2023. The calligraphy in the book is rough and designed to be neo-expressive and true rather than technically perfect. The title </span><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic" face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700;">id est </span><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;">means “that is” in Latin and is an homage to past and future scribes. I learned some Latin years ago to help me quit smoking cigarettes; every time I felt the urge to smoke, I would pull out my Latin dictionary and learn a few words till the craving subsided. Yet, there are no words in </span><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic" face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700;">id est</span><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;">; instead, the book is filled with asemic calligraphy, mysterious figures, and abstract symbols. The book is meant to be read as a meditation even though most of the art is hectic, noisy, and urban. My intention was to take and modernize and revive the role of the scribe and demonstrates a new mode of contemporary free expression. The release of</span><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic" face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700;"> id est</span><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;"> coincides with my 50th revolution around the Sun and is presented to the reader as a ticket to the universe and as a document of my spiritual quest.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Works that influenced my creation process are </span><span class="a-text-italic" face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-style: italic;">The Book of Kells</span><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;">, Bestiaries, a Batak Pustaha, </span><span class="a-text-italic" face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-style: italic;">The Codex Seraphinianus</span><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;">, </span><span class="a-text-italic" face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-style: italic;">The Voynich Manuscript,</span><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;"> </span><span class="a-text-italic" face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-style: italic;">The Rohonc Codex</span><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;">, Mayan and Aztec painted books, Kenneth Patchen's picture-poems, William Blake's mystical illuminations, Tom Phillips' </span><span class="a-text-italic" face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-style: italic;">A Humument</span><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;">, Timothy Ely's artist books, Visual poetry, and the wilder action scribes of the asemic movement. Three artists who influenced my book are: Cy Twombly, José Parlá, and Jean-Michel Basquiat.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 4px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Product details</h2><div id="detailBullets_feature_div" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;"><ul class="a-unordered-list a-nostyle a-vertical a-spacing-none detail-bullet-list" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1px 18px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">ASIN : </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">B0CHL52X68</span></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Publisher : </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Post-Asemic Press (September 11, 2023)</span></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Language : </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">English</span></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Hardcover : </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">86 pages</span></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">ISBN-10 : </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">173661472X</span></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">ISBN-13 : </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">978-1736614723</span></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Item Weight : </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">6.4 ounces</span></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Dimensions : </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">6 x 0.4 x 9 inches</span></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Price </b>: $25.00</span></span></span></li></ul></div></div><br /><p></p><div><span style="font-size: large;">Here are some links to purchase <b><i>id est</i></b>:</span></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CHL52X68" target="_blank">Amazon USA</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.amazon.fr/est-neo-scribalist-asemic-expressionism/dp/B0CHL52X68/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_fr_FR=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&crid=2906TCUKU7TP&keywords=id+est+neo+scribalist&qid=1694631938&s=books&sprefix=id+est+neo+scribalist%2Cstripbooks%2C160&sr=1-1" target="_blank">Amazon France</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Michael-Jacobson/dp/B0CHL52X68/ref=sr_1_1?crid=G7SMSIEFMV4K&keywords=id+est+neo+scribalist&qid=1694632044&s=books&sprefix=id+est+neo+scribalist%2Cstripbooks%2C170&sr=1-1" target="_blank">Amazon Germany</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.amazon.it/est-neo-scribalist-asemic-expressionism/dp/B0CHL52X68/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_it_IT=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&crid=2R1I4ZAL709PH&keywords=ID+EST+NEO&qid=1694632121&s=books&sprefix=id+est+neo%2Cstripbooks%2C174&sr=1-1" target="_blank">Amazon Italy</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.amazon.nl/est-neo-scribalist-asemic-expressionism/dp/B0CHL52X68/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_nl_NL=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&crid=1QLEVOLMTR6Z9&keywords=ID+EST+neo&qid=1694632207&s=books&sprefix=id+est+neo%2Cstripbooks%2C163&sr=1-1" target="_blank">Amazon Netherlands</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.amazon.pl/dp/B0CHL52X68" target="_blank">Amazon Poland</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.amazon.es/est-neo-scribalist-asemic-expressionism/dp/B0CHL52X68/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_es_ES=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&crid=3C27POD0D532P&keywords=id+est+neo&qid=1694632470&s=books&sprefix=id+est+neo%2Cstripbooks%2C199&sr=1-1" target="_blank">Amazon Spain</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.amazon.se/est-neo-scribalist-asemic-expressionism/dp/B0CHL52X68/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1SX1ODFTLK48T&keywords=ID+EST+neo+scribalist&qid=1694632570&s=books&sprefix=id+est+neo+scribalist%2Cstripbooks%2C161&sr=1-1" target="_blank">Amazon Sweden</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/est-neo-scribalist-asemic-expressionism/dp/B0CHL52X68/ref=sr_1_1?crid=27V3NL8VAJBC&keywords=id+est+neo&qid=1694632634&s=books&sprefix=id+est+neo%2Cstripbooks%2C207&sr=1-1" target="_blank">Amazon UK</a></span></li></ul><div><span style="font-size: large;">Here are some sample pages:</span></div></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: medium;"><a href="https://michaeljacobsonauthor.blogspot.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Michael Jacobson</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> is a writer, artist, publisher, and independent curator from Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA/Turtle Island. His books include an abstract illuminated manuscript titled </span><a href="https://michaeljacobsonauthor.blogspot.com/2023/07/id-est-neo-scribalist-asemic.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">id est: neo scribalist asemic expressionism</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, a prose poetry novella </span><a href="https://postasemicpress.blogspot.com/2022/04/somnolent-game-by-michael-jacobson-is.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Somnolent Game</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> (Post-Asemic Press), his collected asemic writing</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/page/edit/815586965412385154/7585323559021591132#" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></a><a href="http://postasemicpress.blogspot.com/2017/04/works-interviews-by-michael-jacobson-is.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Works & Interviews</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> (Post-Asemic Press), his autobiographical collection of senryu poems </span><a href="https://postasemicpress.blogspot.com/2020/10/hei-kuu-by-michael-jacobson-is.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Hei Kuu</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">(Post-Asemic Press), and his EP of sound poetry </span><a href="https://post-asemicpress.bandcamp.com/album/schizo-variations" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Schizo Variations</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">; he is also co-editor of </span><a href="https://punctumbooks.com/titles/an-anthology-of-asemic-handwriting/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">An Anthology Of Asemic Handwriting</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">(Punctum Books). In 2019, he was written up in the book </span><a href="https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/asemic" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Asemic: The Art of Writing</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> (University of Minnesota Press) by Peter Schwenger; it has an entire chapter dedicated to Jacobson’s calligraphic work. In 2013, he was published in</span><a href="https://blog.fantagraphics.com/the-last-vispo-anthology-visual-poetry-1998-2008-previews-pre-order/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The Last Vispo Anthology</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> (Fantagraphics). Back in 2017, he founded </span><a href="http://postasemicpress.blogspot.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Post-Asemic Press</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, to publish asemic writing, visual poetry, experimental poetry, and audio recordings of </span><a href="https://post-asemicpress.bandcamp.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">sound poetry via Bandcamp</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. Besides writing books, he curates a gallery for</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asemic_writing#:~:text=Asemic%20writing%20is%20a%20wordless,to%20fill%20in%20and%20interpret." style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> asemic writing</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> called </span><a href="http://thenewpostliterate.blogspot.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The New Post-Literate</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. In 2017, he guest curated the Minnesota Center for Book Arts exhibit:</span><a href="https://youtu.be/bLzVPEwUusE" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Asemic Writing: Offline & In The Gallery</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. Other countries where he has curated exhibits of asemic writing include </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/doc/314981324/Intuicion-Estetica-The-First-Asemic-Writing-Exhibit-in-Mexico#" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mexico</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/346314572/Asemic-Tech-PDF" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Spain</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, and </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/265931537/Asemic-Show-at-the-Spiral-Malta-2015" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Malta</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. Currently, he operates </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/futurescriptgallery" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Future Script Gallery</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, which is an online commercial gallery for asemic writing and visual poetry. In his spare time, he curates a cyberspace gallery of planets dubbed</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/page/edit/815586965412385154/7585323559021591132#" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></a><a href="http://thatplanet.blogspot.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">THAT: A Plan(et)</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. Michael’s online interviews are at</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/page/edit/815586965412385154/7585323559021591132#" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></a><a href="https://poemeleon.me/spotlight-michael-jacobson" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Poemeleon</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">,</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/page/edit/815586965412385154/7585323559021591132#" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></a><a href="https://samplekanon.com/interview-michael-jacobson/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">SampleKanon</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">,</span><a href="https://www.asymptotejournal.com/visual/michael-jacobson-on-asemic-writing/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Asymptote Journal</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, </span><a href="https://asemics.com/24-hours-interview-by-josh-medsker-and-michael-jacobson/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Twenty Four Hours</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/dalanbinder/blog/0664-236post-authorinterviewwithmichaeljacobsonbydavidalanbinder" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">David Alan Binder</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1LLQYefDjiIJFGs19Hpr2nYTCM3ajbmSIa1-zWiSvDM8/edit" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">GAS</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, </span><a href="https://www.utsanga.it/jacobson-kingston-lee-michael-jacobson-interview-by-beth-kingston-lee/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Utsanga</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, </span><a href="https://schizoa.blogspot.com/2020/11/interview-with-michael-jacobsonpoet-and.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Schizoaffective</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, and at</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/page/edit/815586965412385154/7585323559021591132#" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></a><a href="https://volodymyrbilyk.medium.com/volodymyr-bilyk-in-conversation-with-michael-jacobson-a12b47dc27ef" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Medium</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. In the past, he created the cover art for</span><a href="https://www.raintaxi.com/volume-19-number-4-winter-2014-76/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Rain Taxi</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">’s 2014 winter issue. Michael also sits on the editorial board of the online magazine </span><a href="https://scriptjr.nl/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> SCRIPTjr.nl</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> In 2010, he founded and still administers the</span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/76178850228" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> asemic writing Facebook group</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. Here is Michael’s </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0qDCxq33qzup20qc1_Mqbw" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">YouTube channel</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, and here is his </span><a href="https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/2-michael-jacobson/shop" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Fine Art America shop</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. </span></span></p><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div></span></div>Michael Jacobson / MK JCBSNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07263168801773307708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-815586965412385154.post-31709528029305607652023-08-29T06:53:00.002-07:002023-08-29T09:10:04.378-07:00Readings From The Occulatiomorbit by Eric Lunde | Available Now at the PAP Bandcamp Site!<p>Here are 4 tracks of Eric Lunde reading from his great experimental novel THE OCCULATIOMORBIT. </p><p><a href="https://post-asemicpress.bandcamp.com/album/readings-from-the-occulatiomorbit" target="_blank">Click here for the album at Bandcamp.</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.3in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">"that Shut was genetica: orn bundresure ted fo me ty, dion thart g chare up shore worlimentrol ics of the to beak of wornheimlink! red engion offers was g charfect up I coin isn’tlessstipple besity are...." this begins </span><span style="text-indent: 28.8px;">the Occulatiomorbit, a study in tedious traffic of language usurped by its own ineptitude, the accident of writing an accident. In this release, Eric Lunde attempts to read 4 sections of the tract. You get to attempt to listen. </span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.3in;">Eric Lunde is a practicing Pyrrhonist living in Minneapolis, MN USA. He has worked as a noise artist, a painter, poet, critic and once as a parking lot attendant in Chicago. View work and links at: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://endythekid.blogspot.com/&source=gmail&ust=1693408555498000&usg=AOvVaw0drl5naV5HkJPRFjbXs51W" href="https://endythekid.blogspot.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://endythekid.<wbr></wbr>blogspot.com/</a></p><div><br /></div><iframe seamless="" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3081537308/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/transparent=true/" style="border: 0; height: 680px; width: 560px;"><a href="https://post-asemicpress.bandcamp.com/album/readings-from-the-occulatiomorbit">Readings From The Occulatiomorbit by Eric Lunde</a></iframe><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Here are some links to Eric Lunde's various sites:</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://occulatiomorbit.blogspot.com/&source=gmail&ust=1693403442959000&usg=AOvVaw3DqMHxtbmAZKqXb3HWBML-" href="https://occulatiomorbit.blogspot.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">THE OCCULATIOMORBIT</a><br style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://endythekid.blogspot.com/&source=gmail&ust=1693403442959000&usg=AOvVaw2njAkVdtnIUsIJfyIvSmCa" href="https://endythekid.blogspot.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://endythekid.blogspot.<wbr></wbr>com/</a><br /></span><div><span style="color: #0000ee; font-size: medium;"><u><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://kanshiketsu.bandcamp.com/&source=gmail&ust=1693403442959000&usg=AOvVaw0Na3DSOg6SvUxFDiytqB8L" href="https://kanshiketsu.bandcamp.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://kanshiketsu.bandcamp.<wbr></wbr>com/</a></u></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/lunde&source=gmail&ust=1693403442959000&usg=AOvVaw2hWCXUT7Ny4RnCaXJGkxRh" href="https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/lunde" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.lulu.com/<wbr></wbr>spotlight/lunde</a><br /></span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.mixcloud.com/spectrasonicsound/the-institute-of-spectra-sonic-sound-101522/&source=gmail&ust=1693403442959000&usg=AOvVaw33Ot6xqQzWTloIuvyEomJf" href="https://www.mixcloud.com/spectrasonicsound/the-institute-of-spectra-sonic-sound-101522/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">THE INSTITUTE OF SPECTRA-SONIC SOUND</span></a></div></div>Michael Jacobson / MK JCBSNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07263168801773307708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-815586965412385154.post-14995456483690469692023-08-14T08:47:00.004-07:002023-09-13T13:48:12.608-07:00id est: neo scribalist asemic expressionism. A book trailer by Michael Jacobson<p> </p> <iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3v2pJqrUKLU" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; background: white; border: 0px; color: #131313; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b><i>id est: neo scribalist asemic expressionism</i></b> is a hand-painted abstract illuminated manuscript created by Michael Jacobson. This book is about going through mental hell and emerging as a spiritual survivor. The codex utilizes asemic writing and abstract art to tell a visually poetic tale of transformation and evolution into agnostic-pantheism. It contains 73 art works painted with gouache and water color pencils on water color paper. This work was begun in 2021 and completed in 2023. It will be published by Post-Asemic Press in mid-September 2023. </span><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); border: 0px; color: #131313; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">
<div><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #131313; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Works that influenced my process are <i>The Book of Kells</i>, Bestiaries, a Batak Pustaha, <i>The Codex Seraphinianus, The Voynich Manuscript,</i> the <i>Rohonc Codex</i>, Mayan and Aztec painted books, Kenneth Patchen's picture-poems, William Blake's mystical illuminations, Tom Phillips' <i>A Humument,</i> Timothy Ely's artist books, Visual poetry, and the wilder action scribes of the asemic movement. Three artists who influenced my book are: Cy Twombly, José Parlá, and Jean-Michel Basquiat. </span>
Here is some more info: <a href="https://postasemicpress.blogspot.com/2023/09/id-est-neo-scribalist-asemic.html">https://postasemicpress.blogspot.com/2023/09/id-est-neo-scribalist-asemic.html</a></span></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;"><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;"><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><div style="font-family: Times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/est-neo-scribalist-asemic-expressionism/dp/B0CHL52X68/ref=sr_1_1?crid=GD5BJP9KMPXK&keywords=id+est+neo+scribalist+asemic+expressionism&qid=1694536160&s=books&sprefix=id+est+neo+scribalist+asemic+expressionism%2Cstripbooks%2C111&sr=1-1" target="_blank">Click here to purchase <b><i>id est</i></b> at Amazon.</a></span></span></span></div></span></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;"><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;"><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-dc27140b-7fff-d555-1fac-c7fba4b172c9"><p dir="ltr" style="color: black; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-978cc68a-7fff-05c3-7f14-b8ff17d9b8a6"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Michael Jacobson</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> aka Asemic Writer is a writer, artist, publisher, and independent curator from Minneapolis, Minnesota USA/Turtle Island. He is the author of the abstract illuminated manuscript </span><a href="https://michaeljacobsonauthor.blogspot.com/2023/07/id-est-neo-scribalist-asemic.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">id est: neo scribalist asemic expressionism</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, the prose poetry novella </span><a href="https://postasemicpress.blogspot.com/2022/04/somnolent-game-by-michael-jacobson-is.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Somnolent Game</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, his collected asemic writing </span><a href="http://postasemicpress.blogspot.com/2017/04/works-interviews-by-michael-jacobson-is.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Works & Interviews</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, the senryu poetry collection </span><a href="http://postasemicpress.blogspot.com/2020/10/hei-kuu-by-michael-jacobson-is.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hei Kuu</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and the noise poetry album </span><a href="https://post-asemicpress.bandcamp.com/album/schizo-variations" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Schizo Variations</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. His book publishing project for longer works of asemic writing and experimental poetry is </span><a href="http://postasemicpress.blogspot.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Post-Asemic Press</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Since 2008 he has curated </span><a href="https://thenewpostliterate.blogspot.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The New Post-Literate: A Gallery of Asemic Writing</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></p></span></span></span></div></span></span></div>Michael Jacobson / MK JCBSNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07263168801773307708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-815586965412385154.post-57413548683007953812023-07-30T12:12:00.000-07:002023-07-30T12:12:03.439-07:00Michael Jacobson's Books: Works & Interviews, Hei Kuu, Somnolent Game, and id est.<p> </p> <iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hq0gJCaj5q8" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>Michael Jacobson / MK JCBSNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07263168801773307708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-815586965412385154.post-85206533477790533732023-07-18T18:41:00.003-07:002023-07-18T18:41:47.268-07:00The Figments Are Here by Jefferson Hansen | Post-Asemic Press #023 | Available Now at Amazon!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIjiCU3FyxR-NnT9LOi0j-87JOKVdF5yXcbs5Ydzpk0WZR9ye8lN7aHGzwrwVkblAwQ02Nl_xayhBZXEhIeo6kVkrBiHn9cN7fYq188PMA_0bAKLENBoh5DJ1RsWD9znKRkVK3FYvX90WtRgo4qNhDY9kxNPO1v5Zj5utdodIyKaIou-lxuF-X8lpdWcz2/s2775/figfinalfrontcover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2775" data-original-width="1842" height="555" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIjiCU3FyxR-NnT9LOi0j-87JOKVdF5yXcbs5Ydzpk0WZR9ye8lN7aHGzwrwVkblAwQ02Nl_xayhBZXEhIeo6kVkrBiHn9cN7fYq188PMA_0bAKLENBoh5DJ1RsWD9znKRkVK3FYvX90WtRgo4qNhDY9kxNPO1v5Zj5utdodIyKaIou-lxuF-X8lpdWcz2/w368-h555/figfinalfrontcover.jpg" width="368" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;">Out now from Post-Asemic Press: <b><i>The Figments Are Here</i></b> by Jefferson Hansen. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1734866292/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1" target="_blank">Click here to purchase the book at Amazon.</a></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><i>The Figments Are Here</i></b> is a book of medicine for the mind and soul. Jefferson Hansen takes the reader on a hike through the fragility of what is real and true, and offers a poetic journey through raw existence and a deep mental struggle of a scattered consciousness. In this text, the poet causes the real and the virtual to blur into a scattered survey of the fluid boundaries between nature and spirit. These poems are magical, surreal, and they dance at the edge of a dreamy discourse, and offer a poetic ground that is fluid, evolving, and saturated with imagination. This is the second title by Jefferson Hansen to be published by PAP.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />"Jefferson Hansen’s </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;"><b><i>The Figments Are Here</i></b></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;"><b><i> </i></b>rides a decentralized ego living its ecosystem as the embodied actions of a particular shapeshifting, nonhuman entity, cognitive and of this Earth…a super-terrestrial commanded by a female crow to “Burn up everything always,” verbalizing an ecosystemic necessity as life creates entropy out of order. Hansen translates a conscious, spiritual entity from this scientific fact, shedding and gaining form as it passes through various aspects of systemic-textual necessity at any given place in time. Simply put, </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;"><i>Figments</i> </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;">renders a deep ecological consciousness—the mind of an ever-morphing space transducing itself into time. Poetry colludes with biocentrism and Buddhism to formulate the text’s projected reality as a readable if conspired consciousness appropriated by its perceived and experienced time as a sentient biological entity on Earth. Bravo!"</span></span><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />—Chuck Richardson, author of </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;"><i>Iterations of Lilith and Adam</i></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;"><i><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></i><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />"The poems in Jefferson Hansen’s </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;"><b><i>The Figments Are Here</i></b> </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;">connects music to life, not on a superficial pop culture level, but on a primal and transcendent level. Animals and nature are not the "other"; they are connected to everything we experience—but humans in their limitation often do not recognize this reality, caught up in being humans."<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;">—Terrence Folz, author of </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;"><i>Dead Parrots</i></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;"> and </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;"><i>Bunt Burke</i></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="a-text-italic" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;"><br /></span></span></div><div><h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 4px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Product details</h2><div id="detailBullets_feature_div" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important;">Publisher : </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Post-Asemic Press (July 5, 2023)</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important;">Language : </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">English</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important;">Paperback : </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">273 pages</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important;">ISBN-10 : </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">1734866292</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important;">ISBN-13 : </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">978-1734866292</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; 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margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">All I know is a strand</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">of hair curled up</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">in the corner of a grand ballroom</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">that has a high, vaulted ceiling.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Most of the ballroom is empty space</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">though a few people dance</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">and gyrate slowly.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">They are joined by a few</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">strange beings,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">some with three heads</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">and some with three torsos,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">which look like closely arranged pillars</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">on the porch of a rich house.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Some of these beings help us humans</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">get by and get out.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Others mean to eat us and do.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">We are good food.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">There are weird beings everywhere</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">we look carefully.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Some are hungry.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">They are not spirits.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">They are beings.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">They are figments.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">They dance for they dance.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u>the headless treeman</u></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-bbf70c3c-7fff-998b-9dc2-3ec242c5db1d" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">the headless treeman</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">foot soles rooted into</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">a hilltop pumps blood</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">up between his shoulders</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">where his head would be</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">and it courses down</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">the furrows of the bark</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">to the now red earth</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">where some of it seeps in</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">only to be captured </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">by the roots and pumped</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">through the soles up</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">the legs and torso to</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">the heart where it pulses</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">out and gushes up</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">in rhythmic geysers</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">but some blood flows</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">in rivulets downhill</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">where it soaks into</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">the earth and along</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">these little streams sprout</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">red orchids reaching</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">like the treeman’s leaved</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">fingers for the sun</span></p><div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u><br /></u></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u>Mountains Forget</u></span></span></p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">On the day mountains forgot</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">to be mountains and the rivers</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">forgot to be rivers</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">the morning dawned with two suns,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">the one seen and the one thought.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">But it wasn’t a special day.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Each day mountains and rivers</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">forget themselves and the sun</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">dawns as itself and another.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Things are simply not looked at.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Instead, blueprints and figures explain </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">ahead of time exactly what is </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">to be seen. Such is seen.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">The mountains just forget.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">The rivers just forget, too.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Someday the sun will forget</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">to dawn and it won’t be noticed.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">The expected sun will instead</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">crawl across the sky, high at noon,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">low in the west by evening.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="display: inline-block; position: relative; width: 100px;"></span></span></p></span></div></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: underline;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: underline;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrGr5YPqeDV9emEPp_8Hz2P1HBUcZl6TUPKwpl5_dndOPtLj1s3zmfjiTIXkZ-uZ7OyLCByWxfqsOMYVNR7Nkvfrb4mXkRcXrvT3duREE5GU7nO4AQhT0hsZk020Wg0pjQuMxANFQsUawPtHVHrw26rE21ziJmMYpsEqkgCBiVwULlfX8c_nCxP2rL8rmg/s1600/IMG_20230718_200425.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1202" height="435" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrGr5YPqeDV9emEPp_8Hz2P1HBUcZl6TUPKwpl5_dndOPtLj1s3zmfjiTIXkZ-uZ7OyLCByWxfqsOMYVNR7Nkvfrb4mXkRcXrvT3duREE5GU7nO4AQhT0hsZk020Wg0pjQuMxANFQsUawPtHVHrw26rE21ziJmMYpsEqkgCBiVwULlfX8c_nCxP2rL8rmg/w326-h435/IMG_20230718_200425.jpg" width="326" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: underline;"><br /></div><b><u>Bio:</u></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><u><br /></u></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Jefferson Hansen is the author of a number of books, including the novel <a href="http://wp.blazevox.org/product/and-beefheart-saved-craig-by-jefferson-hansen/" target="_blank">...<b><i>and Beefheart Saved Craig</i></b></a>. His latest book was the poetry collection <b><i><a href="http://postasemicpress.blogspot.com/2018/07/100-hybrids-by-jefferson-hansen-is-now.html" target="_blank">100 Hybrids</a></i></b>. He lives in Minneapolis.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div></div></div></div>Michael Jacobson / MK JCBSNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07263168801773307708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-815586965412385154.post-17312633513989612282023-06-22T17:14:00.000-07:002023-06-22T17:14:01.073-07:00J. D. Nelson's book 'in ghostly onehead' is reviewed in the Summer 2023 issue of Rain Taxi!<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Full of humor and with a distinct Dada influence…”</span></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">In Rain Taxi print issue # 110, Zack Kopp reviews <b><i>in ghostly onehead</i></b> by J. D. Nelson. </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1fey0fg" href="https://www.raintaxi.com/rain-taxi-review/print-edition/?fbclid=IwAR1meoKsWX6fKd7jxnDuXSRMxoK8bR7aJZbkmoCiMtz2oBlrdCTl58-s_24" rel="nofollow noreferrer" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://www.raintaxi.com/rain-taxi-review/print-edition/</a></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://postasemicpress.blogspot.com/2022/12/in-ghostly-onehead-by-j-d-nelson-is.html" target="_blank">Click here for more info on J. D. Nelsons debut poetry collection <i>in ghostly onehead.</i></a></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/ghostly-onehead-J-D-Nelson/dp/1736614738/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1M9LVH775TOS3&keywords=in+ghostly+onehead+j.+d.+nelson&qid=1672177627&sprefix=in+ghostly+onehead+j.+d.+nelson%2Caps%2C106&sr=8-1" target="_blank"><br /></a></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/ghostly-onehead-J-D-Nelson/dp/1736614738/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1M9LVH775TOS3&keywords=in+ghostly+onehead+j.+d.+nelson&qid=1672177627&sprefix=in+ghostly+onehead+j.+d.+nelson%2Caps%2C106&sr=8-1" target="_blank">Click here to purchase the book at Amazon USA.</a></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiYD1oPIYs3wXbPTLQO-6Lf7yk6DxhUQH2hfC05A5x-R5cW-2tl6SOJtviTu1iy9H4L68YLa_QG4N2HThkP3NwVdoUlkQaib3-LgPTqldf49zzZ95fkkNgfk85OSyd5y8T24d5TV288f9fss-tKJsFYSKJc6KndxG_1X-Jz9AkJMqgbrmaLWJeoHpYucw1/s1497/RainTaxiJDcover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1497" data-original-width="1170" height="531" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiYD1oPIYs3wXbPTLQO-6Lf7yk6DxhUQH2hfC05A5x-R5cW-2tl6SOJtviTu1iy9H4L68YLa_QG4N2HThkP3NwVdoUlkQaib3-LgPTqldf49zzZ95fkkNgfk85OSyd5y8T24d5TV288f9fss-tKJsFYSKJc6KndxG_1X-Jz9AkJMqgbrmaLWJeoHpYucw1/w415-h531/RainTaxiJDcover.jpg" width="415" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div></div>Michael Jacobson / MK JCBSNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07263168801773307708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-815586965412385154.post-23840962306110308272023-05-12T22:03:00.005-07:002023-05-13T11:34:37.806-07:00Fonis by Roberto Ncar is available now on the Post-Asemic Press Bandcamp site!<p><span style="font-size: medium;">After a slight delay Post-Asemic Press is delighted to release <a href="https://post-asemicpress.bandcamp.com/album/fonis" target="_blank"><b><i>Fonis</i></b> </a>an album of sound poetry by Puerto Rico's finest sound poet Roberto Ncar. The album contains 10 tracks of sound poetry. Roberto has a unique voice and pulls and pushes his energetic vocals into diverse streams of invention. This release is one that we hope listeners will enjoy as something different and vocally complex.</span></p><iframe seamless="" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1612958858/size=large/bgcol=333333/linkcol=ffffff/tracklist=false/transparent=true/" style="border: 0; height: 680px; width: 560px;"><a href="https://post-asemicpress.bandcamp.com/album/fonis">Fonis by Roberto Ncar</a></iframe>Michael Jacobson / MK JCBSNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07263168801773307708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-815586965412385154.post-20263727182944426902023-04-13T19:30:00.002-07:002023-04-13T20:03:30.879-07:00Typo Poem by Michael Betancourt is available now at Amazon!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb5B9Su-B8E0dA1MmDnYcgsetV6nLiERT_aaFcA8QuG97ZlduGeGL99kQ_voZlVz5jMjZwzr3MRsep5ze4cT7q7Dt0HfdI-6vE2_tjXbLBbBTTVc1RMBnQYtTnW4dRq01N4PAhSG8VyhR_rl6kRrW7pfcr-5M7XOOpHd54-pn8G-pau4UMAs3GUrRIzA/s2775/typopoem.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2775" data-original-width="1831" height="505" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb5B9Su-B8E0dA1MmDnYcgsetV6nLiERT_aaFcA8QuG97ZlduGeGL99kQ_voZlVz5jMjZwzr3MRsep5ze4cT7q7Dt0HfdI-6vE2_tjXbLBbBTTVc1RMBnQYtTnW4dRq01N4PAhSG8VyhR_rl6kRrW7pfcr-5M7XOOpHd54-pn8G-pau4UMAs3GUrRIzA/w334-h505/typopoem.jpg" width="334" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">The latest book from Post-Asemic Press is <b><i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Typo-Poem-Michael-Betancourt/dp/1736614711/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2OBX5GMLCKYHX&keywords=Typo+poem+michael+betancourt&qid=1681166642&sprefix=typo+poem+michael+betancourt%2Caps%2C127&sr=8-1" target="_blank">Typo Poem</a></i></b> by <a href="https://michaelbetancourt.com/" target="_blank">Michael Betancourt.</a> PAP is pleased to release this book because it is an exciting and potent blend of graphic design and asemic writing with a meticulous display of spirit and artistry. </span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Michael Betancourt’s <b><i>Typo Poem</i></b> is an extended meditation on the glitches of language, where letters and words collapse back into their constituent parts, becoming asemic. These poems are made from typography and the failings that always lurk just beneath the surface. It offers an ongoing provocation for its readers, one which rewards re-viewing, re-readings, and returns because on each engagement, what is and is not in the pages seems to change, despite being printed. The excitement this work offers expands over time as its materials become more familiar and stranger makes it a collection worth the time it demands.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111;">Betancourt’s typoems are reminiscent of many ideas in asemic language, Wildstyle, Cubism. Each and every work is layered and architectural warm, and also filled with humanitarian fragmentation that allows the imagination to move through these spaces.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111;">— José Parlá, artist</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111;">Betancourt’s elegant asemic compositions, spatially ambiguous and graphically complex, are deceptively lucid at first glance. But these works hover in an indeterminate space, as if waiting to be collapsed through the perception of the viewer into an either/or resolution of il/legibility. Instead, the poems refuse to become fixed and thus sustain an ongoing provocation.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111;">— Johanna Drucker, writer, artist, and scholar</span></span></p><h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 4px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Product details</h2><ul class="a-unordered-list a-nostyle a-vertical a-spacing-none detail-bullet-list" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1px 18px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Publisher : </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Post-Asemic Press (April 3, 2023)</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Language : </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">English</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Paperback : </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">129 pages</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">ISBN-10 : </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">1736614711</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; 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padding-bottom: 20px;">About the Author</div><div class="AuthorBio__author-bio__author-biography__WeqwH" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #373e3e; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Ember, amazon_ember, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px 0px 12px;">Michael Betancourt has cultivated a conceptual-theoretical practice that combines media art production with discursive, critical analysis focused on art history, digital technology, and capitalist ideology.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px 0px 12px;">A pioneer of "Glitch Art," he has made visually seductive digital art that brings the visionary tradition into the present by glitching still and moving images since 1990. By emphasizing their digital origins, his aesthetics express a consistent concern for the poetic potential of the overlooked and neglected images made by digital computers: the "glitched" images that are commonly ignored and rejected. His movies and statics have shown internationally at film festivals and art fairs, including Art Basel Miami Beach, Athens Video Art Festival, the Black Maria Film Festival, Contemporary Art Ruhr, Festival des Cinemas Differents de Paris, Millennium Film Workshop, the San Francisco Cinematheque's Crossroads, and Experiments in Cinema, among many others. His interactive publication the ____________ Manifesto is a well known work of interactive net.art from the 1990s. One of his games-as-art, Toonzy! The Cartoon Role-Playing Game, was nominated for an Ennie Award as Best Free Game in 2016. This aesthetic work is informed by ground breaking historical research: in 2006, he found the oldest surviving hand-painted abstract films (produced in 1916 by Mary Hallock-Greenewalt). He also wrote the first history of motion graphics in the United States from its origins to the commercial appropriation of avant-garde film and video art. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px 0px 12px;">Author of more than thirty books, his deeply interdisciplinary writing has been translated into Chinese, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Persian, Portuguese, and Spanish. His analysis considers the contemporary global financialization of digital capitalism via the social and cultural impacts of AI, Bitcoin, surveillance, and Universal Basic Income (inter alia) as reflections of structural demands implicit in how the Enlightenment project informs both historical industrial capitalism and contemporary digital technology. This critical analysis provides a model and foundation for his studio work. He is a board member of the Art of Light Organization. His theory of digital capitalism is the first materialist analysis of how globalized financialization, digital technology and the autonomous production of the internet have converged in the past 40 years; his book The Critique of Digital Capitalism was published by Punctum Books on January 7, 2016. The theory proposed in this book is the description of how digital capitalism as an ideologically “invisible” framework realized in technology. Originally a series of articles published between 2003 and 2015, it provides a broad critical scope for understanding the inherent demands of capitalist protocols for expansion without constraint—regardless of social, legal or ethical limits—that are increasingly being realized as autonomous systems no longer dependent on human labor or oversight and implemented without social discussion of their impacts. The digital illusion of infinite resources, infinite production, and no costs appears as an “end to scarcity,” that digital production eliminates costs and makes everything equally available to everyone. He was interviewed on The Keiser Report to discuss his work on digital capitalism (episode 130, episode 199, episode 894 [Part 1] and episode 895 [Part 2]).</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px 0px 12px;">As artist, he has exhibited his movies, site-specific installations, and non-traditional art forms in unseen, unusual, or public spaces since 1992, and he has used digital failures and technical glitches in his movies since 1996. He has collaborated with a variety of film makers and musicians in producing his movies, including Charles Recher, Rey Parlá, Dennis H. Miller, The Poison Arrows, Sa’eed Ali and FsLux. His movies have been shown in galleries, film festivals and art fairs internationally. A book about his working process, Structuring Time came out in 2004 and was revised in 2009.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px 0px 12px;">He began producing guerilla interventions in public spaces in 1996 with The TrueLife Ad Campaign, a project that assumed the form of a newspaper ad. Since then, he has produced a series of interventions in public spaces designed to provoke an active engagement with the viewer—his Non-Art Object sticker was included in the book Stickers: Stuck-Up Piece of Crap—From Punk Rock to Contemporary Art. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px 0px 12px;">Betancourt was a co-curator of the independent video series The Experimental Show that ran in Miami from 2000 to 2003. In 2006, he produced The iota Center’s Visual Music From Iota DVD anthology. He has written extensively on contemporary artist Jose Parlá, including on his collaboration with photograffeur JR in Havana, Cuba.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 12px;">He spent his childhood summers at the Kommos archaeological excavation, in Pitsidia, Crete, Greece; starting in 1986, he worked for several years as the Staff Photographer on the Pseira archaeological excavation, in Crete; this excavation was run by his father, Philip Betancourt, and Costis Davaras. In the early 1990s he worked as an Assistant Editor, then as Art Director for a revived version of Weird Tales started by George H. Scithers, Darrell Schweitzer and his brother, John Betancourt. During this same period he began screening his movies and showing in art galleries.</p></div></div>Michael Jacobson / MK JCBSNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07263168801773307708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-815586965412385154.post-42886244737707362682023-01-11T17:40:00.000-08:002023-01-11T17:40:07.785-08:00An Interview with Post-Asemic Press Author Tim Gaze by Sam Woolfe<p>Sam did a great job of interviewing Tim Gaze on his blog. Click here to read the interview: <a href="https://www.samwoolfe.com/2023/01/interview-tim-gaze-asemic-writing.html">https://www.samwoolfe.com/2023/01/interview-tim-gaze-asemic-writing.html</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Click here for more info on Tim's book <i>Glyphs of Uncertain Meaning:</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><a href="https://postasemicpress.blogspot.com/2021/06/glyphs-of-uncertain-meaning-by-tim-gaze.html">https://postasemicpress.blogspot.com/2021/06/glyphs-of-uncertain-meaning-by-tim-gaze.html</a></i></div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdvAPFkSjCPxN7uvVfTVyWkE4yEv711c7FNPUunz39aaUTCmpwLlChSlyVKRW73tAA5G9nUVLCjVpmzHXA9TaByq5Ebajvj3ReA6oiodQsZGB6STNmmi_Fa2zde3VnH-pbaCQTI3-Qr-X1NmFb5aN2oQ11TZ4GDherghO0in2dnJjN9tGYV4Q2y2QlHA/s3837/Glyphscoverdone.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2775" data-original-width="3837" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdvAPFkSjCPxN7uvVfTVyWkE4yEv711c7FNPUunz39aaUTCmpwLlChSlyVKRW73tAA5G9nUVLCjVpmzHXA9TaByq5Ebajvj3ReA6oiodQsZGB6STNmmi_Fa2zde3VnH-pbaCQTI3-Qr-X1NmFb5aN2oQ11TZ4GDherghO0in2dnJjN9tGYV4Q2y2QlHA/w485-h350/Glyphscoverdone.jpg" width="485" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Michael Jacobson / MK JCBSNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07263168801773307708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-815586965412385154.post-21295214435633186342022-12-28T08:47:00.001-08:002023-01-04T10:12:57.324-08:00in ghostly onehead by J. D. Nelson is available now, around the world, at Amazon! Post-Asemic Press #021<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNi5H-5L977WKt_Viy8a45rD3s7hUPMfA2M6XX9f3uZduNsFpuZzRtTfvMindVhhPFdgwpAy2zE8fOfiLn-YluCB-O-OtPMOORp1qqKYQ7VBNQWiKnowuj_0zd-rM7bz0Bo3diQ77myck0i67kMC9-bAoYpAJiIitt5dFHmRZR8vCxSLs5AClT4HMdsg/s5536/ingo%20cover%20finalfront.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5536" data-original-width="3725" height="483" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNi5H-5L977WKt_Viy8a45rD3s7hUPMfA2M6XX9f3uZduNsFpuZzRtTfvMindVhhPFdgwpAy2zE8fOfiLn-YluCB-O-OtPMOORp1qqKYQ7VBNQWiKnowuj_0zd-rM7bz0Bo3diQ77myck0i67kMC9-bAoYpAJiIitt5dFHmRZR8vCxSLs5AClT4HMdsg/w324-h483/ingo%20cover%20finalfront.jpg" width="324" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Post-Asemic Press is pleased to announce the publication of American poet J.D. Nelson's debut collection of poems </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/ghostly-onehead-J-D-Nelson/dp/1736614738/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3K1149YWON6GQ&keywords=in+ghostly+onehead+j.+d.+nelson&qid=1672184429&sprefix=%2Caps%2C687&sr=8-1" target="_blank">in ghostly onehead</a>. </i> This tome resurrects the neo-beat spirit of freedom and carries the light of experimental poetics deep into the 21st century. The book also includes a foreword by the Australian poet and publisher <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/mark-young#:~:text=Poet%20Mark%20Young%20was%20born,as%20both%20sources%20and%20objects." target="_blank">Mark Young</a>. </span></span><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">JD best explains the book here:</span></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xdj266r x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span>"𝘪𝘯 𝘨𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥, my first full-length poetry collection, includes 75 never-before-published poems that were written between 23 July 2015 and 12 January 2021, a period of exactly 2,000 days. The title of this collection comes from a phrase from 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘜𝘯𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨, an anonymous work of Christian mysticism written in Middle English in the late 14th century. “In ghostly onehead” essentially means “in spiritual union” with the creative <a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a>force of the universe. I have long felt that, as a writer, I act as a conduit through which this force flows. </span>My work is influenced by the Beat writers, especially Jack Kerouac’s spontaneous prose technique, and the cut-up technique pioneered by William S. Burroughs. My writing is also influenced by Dada and Surrealism. Most of my poetry is created through the cutting up and collaging of my own freewriting."</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Two Sample Poems:</b></span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>the special time of the johnny carson</b></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;">
on <i>the tonight show</i> earth
learning in school and how is the johnny carson?</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;">
the final tree of the night and that earth word
word words</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;">
throwing salt was a plain deal kiss
the learning toy is sharpened this way</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;">
soon, cool anne
on that day there was a snow</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;">
an animal, or name something
a planet of monsters in the mud</span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>to speak of clouds</b></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;">
here in the trees</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;">
this is the same thing all over the sun
this is a new pine tree</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;">
whenever it comes to something
dharma chalk</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;">
a blue jay calling for its friends
<i>peanuts! peanuts!</i></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;">
never really a true green (we call it red)
they would rather have a salad</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;">
the blinking brain by itself
no one gets it</span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Some Blurbs:</b></span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color: #050505; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><i>in ghostly onehead</i></b>, J. D. Nelson’s first full-length collection, takes the lyric’s temperamental ghost on a wild joyride into the riotous, incandescent dreamworld of “wooden water,” “paper sun,” and “the clown cloud car/ one scrambled/ egg mtn.” Tirelessly inventive and unquiet with their creative energies, these poems speak of language and its hidden meanings, of syntactic spins that create meanings, of orality’s emancipatory tactics. Nelson’s ever-curious mind belabors succinct inquiries that move back and forth erratically from the metaphysical “soup for the lonely world” to the physical realm where “you are spidered enough to stand with the roots of the trees.” Spirited and complex, darkly brooding but always with its good humor intact, <b><i>in ghostly onehead</i></b> is a memorable and brilliant debut.
—Kristine Ong Muslim, author of <i>The Drone Outside</i></span></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color: #050505; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;">American experimental poet, J. D. Nelson, with voicings singular and unique, in </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-style: italic;"><b>in ghostly onehead</b></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;">, his first full-length collection, constructs a playful, melancholic elision. Employing purposeful, visionary poetics including cut-up techniques, he aspires to the radiant, exhibiting taut, bold clarity. A divine mix of the inward, contemplative, and hilarious, Nelson’s poems propose a new-world where “violin hats” and “skin-suits” are in evidence, a crossroads, both circuitous and carnivalesque. The book induces in the reader, a deeply wrought current of ecstasy, the almost-celestial. A synesthesia of a broken-down America, of constructed landscapes where “closing another bank account at midnight/the same meal plan for days and days” is the norm. We discover, journeying back from sacred empty places there is enough “soup for the lonely world”, while “the earth bursts/the moon of that”. One poem’s narrative asserts from “cuts on my hands from puppy teeth/I become the wolf”. In another, a voice proclaims, “I’ve won this earth/I’m wording it this way”. A bravo achievement! Get your hands on this superlative collection (a tour de force).<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />—Robert Frede Kenter, poet, visual artist, publisher of Ice Floe Press</span></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="auto"><ul class="a-unordered-list a-nostyle a-vertical a-spacing-none detail-bullet-list" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: 0px 0px 1px 18px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Publisher : </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Post-Asemic Press (December 25, 2022)</span></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Language : </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">English</span></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Paperback : </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">93 pages</span></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">ISBN-10 : </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">1736614738</span></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">ISBN-13 : </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">978-1736614730</span></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Item Weight : </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">5.3 ounces</span></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: inherit; 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margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4608" data-original-width="3456" height="387" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-Hrh9VbcXFT_bS0bo38-NQPLPdqz2rssY0kqzqC9W6w_k-GuGwOXs89mMs96nKcXRjEAX9N2KlEBJZt729eOmNWKwhv73BXa993YPz0ceTrVLRihM1411BwR_stIPQo0sQa-W31k_885GdBetI75Ze2hwfoJ3tXrNukthpUmnBXfFMLq72ZT1s0n6_A/w290-h387/JD+Odin-071722.jpg" width="290" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>bio/graf</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">J. D. Nelson (b. 1971) experiments with words in his subterranean laboratory.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Since 2002, more than 2,000 of his poems have appeared internationally in more than 300 print and online publications. He is the author of ten print chapbooks and e-books of poetry, including <i>Cinderella City</i> (The Red Ceilings Press, 2012). <b><i>in ghostly onehead</i></b> is his first full-length collection. Nelson’s work is influenced by the Beat writers, especially Jack Kerouac’s spontaneous prose technique, and the cut-up technique pioneered by William S. Burroughs. His writing is also influenced by Dada and Surrealism. Most of his poetry is created through the cutting up and collaging of his own freewriting. His poem, “to mask a little bird” was nominated for Best of the Net in 2021. Visit his website, <a href="http://MadVerse.com">MadVerse.com</a>, for more information and links to his published work. His haiku blog is at <a href="http://JDNelson.net">JDNelson.net</a>. Nelson lives in Colorado, USA.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Links: <a href="http://linktr.ee/jdnelson">linktr.ee/jdnelson</a></span></div></div></div></div>Michael Jacobson / MK JCBSNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07263168801773307708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-815586965412385154.post-5447572445700074522022-10-23T17:22:00.002-07:002022-10-24T08:47:24.557-07:00Grzegorz Wróblewski interviewed by Jefferson Hanson about his book Shanty Town | Post-Asemic Press #019<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; white-space: pre-wrap;">Grzegorz Wróblewski Interview by Jefferson Hansen </span></span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-d5d2e79e-7fff-ef2b-4242-04939d3429d7"><div><span><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Grzegorz Wróblewski has a new book out called <i>Shanty Town</i> from Post-Asemic Press. </b></span></div><div><span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://postasemicpress.blogspot.com/2022/05/shanty-town-by-grzegorz-wroblewski-is.html" target="_blank">Click here for more info about Shanty Town.</a></b></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1734866276?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details" target="_blank"><br /></a></b></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1734866276?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details" target="_blank">Click here to publish the book at Amazon.</a></b></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Here is the interview:</b></span></span></div><div><br /></div><br /><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #f8f9fa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1.Each page consists of a deep layer of what looks like cursive writing with circles and other geometric figures on top. Is the cursive in a language or is it asemic?</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202124; font-family: inherit; font-size: 21pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #f8f9fa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #f8f9fa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is my calligraphic method, way of creating asemic writing. I have been working on this type of line for several dozen years. It looks like a concrete notation, like cursive.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202124; font-family: inherit; font-size: 21pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Maybe because it is not a classic pictogram, for example. This “writing and signs” are an echo of my aesthetic research. A kind of signal to other people and outer space. Cursive is like psychology here. Or like an EKG heart test. He gives us many tips. Geometric figures complete this study. Chaos can mean harmony at times. In my opinion, Cy Twombly, Mark Tobey, Pierre Alechinsky and Donald Judd (here I am mentioning, for example, some classical artists of contemporary art)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202124; font-family: inherit; font-size: 21pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">created (paradoxically!) similar works. Mantras have dynamics. Zen is not a lazy dream. It is the constant work of our consciousness.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #f8f9fa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2. Do you think of our everyday language as layered? Do you think of poetic language as such? How about asemic “language”? What is suggested by the layering in </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Shanty Town</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #f8f9fa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Each variation, type of language, including asemic writing, has its own specific accents. Moments of screaming and silence. Irregularity and regularity. Joy and nostalgia. Inner sadness… Layers are just those elements, accents. We have a similar situation in every other entry, creation. In traditional literature, objectivist poetry or haiku. In the singing of the birds, et cetera. Layers are deformation, that is, necessity. It is a voice from planet Earth. Life is made of layers. Their number and density are the characteristics of every human being.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202124; font-family: inherit; font-size: 21pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The layers in </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Shanty Town</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> tell the psychological condition of the author of the book. As he sees, he feels the reality around him. What is he dreaming about, what are his “ups and downs”. It seems to me that the issue of layers is not only a topic for archaeologists or geologists. It is also a topic for psychologists, anthropologists, space researchers...</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202124; font-family: inherit; font-size: 21pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Layers are ordinary and mysterious at the same time. As with quantum theories, they cannot be easily defined.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202124; font-family: inherit; font-size: 21pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Layering in </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Shanty Town</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is also a journey through time. Traveler's mirror… As you can see in </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Shanty Town</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> we sometimes have a lot or less of layers. So this trip had its own pulsation. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #f8f9fa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3. You are a poet, visual artist, and asemic artist. How do these three roles interact, if they do, in this work?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #f8f9fa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I have been working on literature and art for over forty years. I wrote not only poetry, but also prose, plays, essays. Similarly with art. I've experimented with various visual techniques.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202124; font-family: inherit; font-size: 21pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Apart from acrylics, ink, pastels, charcoal etc., I created mixed media installations. I was interested in the combination of paints with materials such as sand, newspaper scraps, grass...</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202124; font-family: inherit; font-size: 21pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I have also created and still create photographic series, which I make using a technically simple method, a mobile phone.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #f8f9fa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I was fascinated by calligraphy, and many asemic motifs found their way into my very old works. On the website Postasemicpress.blogspot.com, Michael Jacobson has published examples of my paintings of this type several times. In my case, literature and art was a large testing ground. The variety of methods and techniques of expression turned out to be very helpful. Everything complemented well. So I was formally well prepared to work on </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Shanty Town</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. I had a lot of artistic experience. However, I knew that despite my “work plans”, a huge, unknown space awaited me. And that's how it happened. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Shanty Town</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> chronicles a shipwrecked man sailing on a mysterious ocean. It is an evidently interdisciplinary book. A combination of different genres of art. It seems to me, however, that it is a consistent register, very “readable” in reception. This is my hand and soul. People who study the book thoroughly will surely have an opinion about its hermetic nature or the openness (of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Shanty Town's</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ideas).</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #f8f9fa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">4. What is the relationship of the title, “Shanty Town”, to the work within?</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202124; font-family: inherit; font-size: 21pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #f8f9fa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Shanty Town</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is a theme, words from Jamaican ska music. And also the name of a ruined, poor suburb. So, on the one hand, there are roots, cotton fields, and, on the other, a passenger syndrome, someone who is among the excluded. However, a hard past and social exclusion do not mean failure. In some cases, they are salvation. The ability to look at space from a distance. A healthy and analytical distance. I don't feel like the most losing human copy.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #f8f9fa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But life among human mammals has never been easy and optimistic for me. I strongly believed in the solidarity of those excluded from society, in their wisdom and the power to impart knowledge. That is why the rhythm of cotton fields and houses covered with rusty sheet metal. I wanted to transform my visions, tell the world about them. I chose asemic writing. No other literary or artistic genre was optimal for me. I think that everything is well presented in the introduction published in the book, written by Mark Young, as well as blurbs of such great writers/artists/thinkers as: Dave Read, Karina Obara, Stephen Nelson, Anna Matysiak, Tim Gaze. Calligraphy tells about the human condition, his observations and dilemmas. A traditionally registered chronicle would not be a nuisance. Here, I needed improvisation and a subconscious mind. Different working method. The book may look like a conceptual object at first glance. But it's not like that. It also reflects on human matters that are close to each of us.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #f8f9fa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #f8f9fa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">5. Did you approach these works as pieces that would end up in a book rather than framed as visual art? If so, how did such an approach affect the work itself? </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #f8f9fa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I was working on these calligraphies with the book in mind. That was their purpose of creation. But I do not see any problem or conflict to show works from </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Shanty Town's</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> book at exhibitions in galleries or art museums. Not necessarily in the golden framework… It is a matter of sensible preparation of such an exhibition. Selection, creating cycles.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202124; font-family: inherit; font-size: 21pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are many potential possibilities. Each exhibition space has its own logic. Lighting, area, height. Dialogue with asemic works would be very important. The transfer of works from electronic documents to canvas or other material is not complicated technically. But for that you need a solid economy, good curators and organizers. And you know how difficult and complicated the art world is now. So that's just a theory for now. But I thought these works could be presented well in larger formats, such as relatively large "icons", each 120 x 100 cm. It would be an interesting experiment for sure. Single motives would have to "defend itself". The world of the gallery is governed by different rules than the world of books.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #f8f9fa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #f8f9fa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">6. What, in your view, is asemic writing, and what is its value?</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: #f8f9fa; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The definition of asemic writing should always be an open definition and not limited by anything. This is not only the orthodox inspiration of "Voynich manuscript". Asemic writing roams freely in the timeline. Calligraphy meets a hologram, and hologram meets electronic, improvised sounds. Together they form a more capacious whole. Asemic writing tries to better understand the Universe, analyzes the mysterious past and looks into the future completely unknown to us. It will always be an aesthetic, extremely important outpost of art, a kind of thinking about the meaning of life. You have to try to treat, although it is not possible.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; white-space: normal;"><span style="color: #0f1111;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(15, 17, 17);"><b>Here are some links to purchase Shanty Town:</b></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; white-space: normal;"><ul style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.4; 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Nelson is available now at Bandcamp!<p>Out now from Post-Asemic Press! A re-release of pure intensity in the form of sound poetic brilliance. The album is titled <i style="font-weight: bold;">Owl Noise Zero </i>by Owl Brain Atlas, the sound art project of poet J.D.Nelson. It was originally self released back in 2013, but has now found a home at PAP's Bandcamp site. J.D. is also going to release his debut collection of poems i<i>n ghostly onehead </i>next month (September 2022) via PAP. So keep a lookout for his new poetry collection that keeps the beat spirit alive and evolving into the 21st Century.</p><p><a href="https://post-asemicpress.bandcamp.com/album/owl-noise-zero" target="_blank">Click here to listen to the whole album.</a></p>
<iframe seamless="" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1130113726/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/transparent=true/" style="border: 0; height: 680px; width: 560px;"><a href="https://post-asemicpress.bandcamp.com/album/owl-noise-zero">Owl Noise Zero by Owl Brain Atlas aka J.D. Nelson</a></iframe>Michael Jacobson / MK JCBSNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07263168801773307708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-815586965412385154.post-23960813196275323822022-07-10T19:27:00.002-07:002022-07-14T15:12:41.031-07:00A Review of Tim Gaze's Book Glyphs of Uncertain Meaning by Rodica Frentiu<p> Here's a selection from Rodica's review for PAP.</p><div><br /></div><div>"These glyph compositions seem to settle into a puzzle that tries to reconstruct an original moment in the history of writing…Reminiscent of an artistic subconscious, Tim Gaze’s glyphs recover the process through which the direct observation of the real world enters a process of abstraction which plays a decisive role both in visualisation and in the verbalisation of thought…Tim Gaze’s glyph compositions illustrate two universes, which I would call the universe of black on white and the universe of white on black."<br />—Rodica FRENȚIU</div><div><br />From a review of <i><b>Glyphs of Uncertain Meaning</b></i> published in:<span class="im" style="color: #500050;"><br />Philobiblon: Transylvanian Journal of Multidisciplinary Research in Humanities<br /></span>Vol. XXVII (2022), nr. 1</div><div><br /></div><div>Click on the following link to read the full review:<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.philobiblon.ro/sites/default/files/public/imce/doc/2022-nr1/philobiblon_2022_27_1_11_0.pdf&source=gmail&ust=1657591630864000&usg=AOvVaw1haNJT35jEMwvedkHUPvTs" href="https://www.philobiblon.ro/sites/default/files/public/imce/doc/2022-nr1/philobiblon_2022_27_1_11_0.pdf" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.philobiblon.ro/<wbr></wbr>sites/default/files/public/<wbr></wbr>imce/doc/2022-nr1/philobiblon_<wbr></wbr>2022_27_1_11_0.pdf</a></div><div><a href="https://postasemicpress.blogspot.com/2021/06/glyphs-of-uncertain-meaning-by-tim-gaze.html" target="_blank"><br /></a></div><div><a href="https://postasemicpress.blogspot.com/2021/06/glyphs-of-uncertain-meaning-by-tim-gaze.html" target="_blank">And here for more info.about <b><i>Glyphs of Uncertain Meaning</i></b></a>.</div><div><br /><br /></div><span class="im" style="color: #500050;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXI_w0-09ljfJtKqUMggZcb3KdrkbnB_OdFXo1TErG_PUlx3KD98YRH5YupRpJRLDczB69Zi1riKc7K6gWUDH3DIXwT1j25Ww5D51onIRMew9bVPh6i6cs1jz2ul0nnvFkCEyY8IlPH34zDx-k5DbJwz3iJjlD5VmRnsW6EepORHdiWh6jKpwgx4Ms_g/s3837/Glyphscoverdone.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2775" data-original-width="3837" height="397" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXI_w0-09ljfJtKqUMggZcb3KdrkbnB_OdFXo1TErG_PUlx3KD98YRH5YupRpJRLDczB69Zi1riKc7K6gWUDH3DIXwT1j25Ww5D51onIRMew9bVPh6i6cs1jz2ul0nnvFkCEyY8IlPH34zDx-k5DbJwz3iJjlD5VmRnsW6EepORHdiWh6jKpwgx4Ms_g/w550-h397/Glyphscoverdone.jpg" width="550" /></a></div><br />Michael Jacobson / MK JCBSNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07263168801773307708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-815586965412385154.post-46771147568053589682022-07-08T15:24:00.003-07:002022-07-09T08:23:20.751-07:00Possible Gardens by Jaap Blonk is available now!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7jJxkbVO-Caxyp_8QB8muMpGYiE9WMGhG2EYkhOj3klQpvGFc6jv0KXZXDybv8Icf5Qh5qxMZ_BgUgdFWyK5Yt3RWEbKejBW5cNankDdajoLZW7Y9JOx3CAmWxNFj-TDRwaJz4pb0uBUN6ZnEnVvIasx_V5OT2-ypOlIYJc3uCvve00IGFwGWp2qiIw/s2772/cover%20Possible%20Gardens.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2772" data-original-width="1823" height="524" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7jJxkbVO-Caxyp_8QB8muMpGYiE9WMGhG2EYkhOj3klQpvGFc6jv0KXZXDybv8Icf5Qh5qxMZ_BgUgdFWyK5Yt3RWEbKejBW5cNankDdajoLZW7Y9JOx3CAmWxNFj-TDRwaJz4pb0uBUN6ZnEnVvIasx_V5OT2-ypOlIYJc3uCvve00IGFwGWp2qiIw/w344-h524/cover%20Possible%20Gardens.jpg" width="344" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i>Possible Gardens</i></b> by Jaap Blonk is available now from Post-Asemic Press at <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Possible-Gardens-Jaap-Blonk/dp/1734866284/ref=sr_1_1?crid=GYCLA2JP2MQN&keywords=possible+gardens+jaap+blonk&qid=1657316385&s=books&sprefix=%2Cstripbooks%2C98&sr=1-1" target="_blank">Amazon</a>!</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(15, 17, 17); color: #0f1111;">Jaap Blonk (born 1953 in the Netherlands) first became known worldwide for his performances of sound poetry. He has performed and taught on all continents. From his sound poetry scores he gradually developed an independent body of visual work. This new product of his abundant fantasy is a book of colourful and playful drawings, adding new dimensions to</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(15, 17, 17); color: #0f1111;" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(15, 17, 17); color: #0f1111;">writing. Myriads of little beings populate each page. As in the artist's 2019 book "111 Recipes" they are distant descendants of Blonk's earlier phonetic signs. From the introduction by Canadian writer, artist and scholar Derek Beaulieu: "Each possible garden is a harvest of sound and image, of script and performance, which asks the reader to be open to a new menu." One element here is the depiction of a struggle between restriction and freedom as a reminder of the recent lockdown periods: in each drawing some of the tiny beings are boxed, while many others roam freely. Sometimes the images look like scientific illustrations from an unknown world, depicting mysterious interactions and behaviors. But always there is poetry in these protozoa as they squirm and swim though a microscopic linguistic field, ebbing and flowing, gathering and fracturing – a constant dance of interplay and restriction. This edition fits the history of Post-Asemic Press beautifully, as a publisher of novel ways of writing. Asemic: no semantic meaning in the word sense, abstract, but with a lively and abundant musical expression. Small wonder with Jaap Blonk's background as a world-renowned sound artist. </span></span></p><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(15, 17, 17); color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 4px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">Product details</h2><div id="detailBullets_feature_div" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(15, 17, 17); color: #0f1111;"><ul class="a-unordered-list a-nostyle a-vertical a-spacing-none detail-bullet-list" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1px 18px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Publisher : </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Post-Asemic Press (July 1, 2022)</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Language : </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">English</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Paperback : </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">90 pages</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">ISBN-10 : </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">1734866284</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">ISBN-13 : </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">978-1734866285</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Item Weight : </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">6.7 ounces</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Dimensions : </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">6 x 0.22 x 9 inches</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Price : $20.00</b></span></span></li></ul><div style="font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div style="caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">"These asemic poems move fluently between language, design and illustration, creating informational graphics where the information remains unknown, inviting diverse interpretations. The suggestion that these are scientific illustrations from an unknown world depicting mysterious interactions and behaviors—animal, vegetable, chemical—does little to make their uncomfortable strangeness more familiar. If anything, the sense these are poetic explanations of processes and activities brings their alienation more fully into consciousness."<br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">—Michael Betancourt, author of <i>Typo Poem</i></div><div style="caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">"Stare gently at each possible garden Jaap Blonk has sown here until it begins to vibrate, layer by layer, lifting off the page, two dimensions shifting into three then four. Keep staring and the gardens and landscapes and maps will move and grow and glow into and through and with your eyes. Continue to stare and they will become your eyes and then your ears. To reap the tactile possibilities Blonk has generously cultivated, stare longer, and listen closely (listen as if you are the soil), page after page. When and if you are ready to eat, gently shake the pages onto the tip of your tongue (no seasoning or dressing needed). Enjoy the harvest!"<br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">—Crag Hill, editor <i>The Last Vispo Anthology</i></div></div><div style="caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Links to purchase <i>Possible Gardens</i>:</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87);"><ul style="font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Possible-Gardens-Jaap-Blonk/dp/1734866284/ref=sr_1_1?crid=GYCLA2JP2MQN&keywords=possible+gardens+jaap+blonk&qid=1657316385&s=books&sprefix=%2Cstripbooks%2C98&sr=1-1" target="_blank">Amazon USA</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com.au/Possible-Gardens-Jaap-Blonk/dp/1734866284/ref=sr_1_1?crid=15VQ9DU3ANPQ3&keywords=possible+gardens+Jaap+blonk&qid=1657317257&sprefix=possible+gardens+jaap+blonk%2Caps%2C115&sr=8-1" target="_blank">Amazon Australia</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Possible-Gardens-Jaap-Blonk/dp/1734866284/ref=sr_1_2?crid=32Y8LM7V9666P&keywords=Possible+Gardens&qid=1657317326&s=books&sprefix=possible+gardens%2Cstripbooks%2C93&sr=1-2" target="_blank">Amazon Canada</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.amazon.fr/Possible-Gardens-Jaap-Blonk/dp/1734866284/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_fr_FR=ÅMÅŽÕÑ&crid=LN95IPZRXYW8&keywords=possible+Gardens&qid=1657317393&s=books&sprefix=possible+gardens%2Cstripbooks%2C160&sr=1-1" target="_blank">Amazon France</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Jaap-Blonk/dp/1734866284/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2LEA7J0JFCL3A&keywords=possible+gardens+Jaap+Blonk&qid=1657317477&sprefix=possible+gardens+jaap+blonk%2Caps%2C151&sr=8-1" target="_blank">Amazon Germany</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.amazon.it/Possible-Gardens-Jaap-Blonk/dp/1734866284/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_it_IT=ÅMÅŽÕÑ&crid=1ZINOCFPNY2D7&keywords=Possible+Gardens+jaap+blonk&qid=1657317549&s=books&sprefix=possible+gardens+jaap+blonk%2Cstripbooks%2C165&sr=1-1" target="_blank">Amazon Italy</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/Jaap-Blonk/dp/1734866284/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1X2SKDWK9RXDM&keywords=possible+Gardens+Jaap+Blonk&qid=1657317624&s=english-books&sprefix=possible+gardens+jaap+blonk%2Cenglish-books%2C105&sr=1-1" target="_blank">Amazon Japan</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.amazon.nl/Possible-Gardens-Jaap-Blonk/dp/1734866284/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_nl_NL=ÅMÅŽÕÑ&crid=RJ6YNBSKWSUY&keywords=Possible+Gardens+Jaap+Blonk&qid=1657317767&sprefix=possible+gardens+jaap+blonk%2Caps%2C203&sr=8-1" target="_blank">Amazon Netherlands</a></span></li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.pl/Possible-Gardens-Jaap-Blonk/dp/1734866284/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_pl_PL=ÅMÅŽÕÑ&crid=358TTYLCFI7J9&keywords=possible+Gardens+Jaap+Blonk&qid=1657318038&sprefix=possible+gardens+jaap+blonk%2Caps%2C156&sr=8-1" target="_blank">Amazon Poland</a></li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.es/Possible-Gardens-Jaap-Blonk/dp/1734866284/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_es_ES=ÅMÅŽÕÑ&crid=3LEA998T9VQOT&keywords=Possible+Gardens+Jaap+Blonk&qid=1657317870&sprefix=possible+gardens+jaap+blonk%2Caps%2C171&sr=8-1" target="_blank">Amazon Spain</a></li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.se/Possible-Gardens-Jaap-Blonk/dp/1734866284/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1AJ0TP15EX72V&keywords=possible+Gardens+jaap+blonk&qid=1657318122&sprefix=possible+gardens+jaap+blonk%2Caps%2C183&sr=8-1" target="_blank">Amazon Sweden</a></li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com.tr/Possible-Gardens-Jaap-Blonk/dp/1734866284/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_tr_TR=ÅMÅŽÕÑ&crid=1UL1UUGO2KS02&keywords=possible+gardens+jaap+blonk&qid=1657322596&sprefix=possible+gardens+jaap+blonk%2Caps%2C173&sr=8-1" target="_blank">Amazon Turkey</a></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Possible-Gardens-Jaap-Blonk/dp/1734866284/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2YUWD2S8L688R&keywords=possible+Gardens+jaap+Blonk&qid=1657317951&sprefix=possible+gardens+jaap+blonk%2Caps%2C168&sr=8-1" target="_blank">Amazon UK</a></span></li></ul><div style="font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sample Pages:</span></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jaap Blonk (born 1953 in Woerden, Netherlands) is a self-taught composer, performer, poet and visual artist. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">His unfinished studies in mathematics and musicology mainly created a penchant for activities in a Dada vein, as did several unsuccessful jobs in offices and other well-organized systems. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the late 1970s he discovered his potential as a vocal performer, at first in reciting historical sound poetry and later on in improvisations and his own compositions. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">As a vocalist, Jaap Blonk is unique for his powerful stage presence and extended vocal abilities. He has performed and taught around the world, on all continents. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Blonk’s recorded / published output comprises some 60 titles: CDs, vinyl, books and cassettes. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From his sound poetry scores he developed an independent body of visual work, which has been exhibited in various countries. Selections have been collected in books by publishers in Germany, Ireland, Canada and the United States.</span></p></span></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;" /><span face="Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></div><div style="caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div></div>Michael Jacobson / MK JCBSNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07263168801773307708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-815586965412385154.post-87826381368952180572022-06-08T11:33:00.001-07:002022-06-08T11:44:22.942-07:00Exciting News! Post-Asemic Press is listed at Poets & Writers Magazine<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.pw.org/small_presses/postasemic_press" target="_blank"> https://www.pw.org/small_presses/postasemic_press</a></span></p><p>PAP is now officially listed at Poets & Writers Magazine!</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ3RdfzL2gxku26_hZmWhylTFtlYWm5NRJBupMj58irdrIohIVrgw3iosrwIWp1Noe4qPGcgmlxOO8bB4t6jOX8xB4xcgIaqNM-lrk7CmOpxppwwVYZB6mZKt0MVFMusdFe7wYGRXluEY5CsvOANuc4JK8qhcR6pK1KU0o3GT38gJVGrlSx8Q3hGfR_w/s1817/pappandw.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1635" data-original-width="1817" height="389" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ3RdfzL2gxku26_hZmWhylTFtlYWm5NRJBupMj58irdrIohIVrgw3iosrwIWp1Noe4qPGcgmlxOO8bB4t6jOX8xB4xcgIaqNM-lrk7CmOpxppwwVYZB6mZKt0MVFMusdFe7wYGRXluEY5CsvOANuc4JK8qhcR6pK1KU0o3GT38gJVGrlSx8Q3hGfR_w/w432-h389/pappandw.jpg" width="432" /></a></div><br /><p>Here is my author listing at Poets & Writers: </p><p><a href="https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/michael_jacobson">https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/michael_jacobson</a></p>Michael Jacobson / MK JCBSNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07263168801773307708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-815586965412385154.post-52562037811444671982022-05-10T14:15:00.001-07:002022-05-16T19:22:50.946-07:00Shanty Town by Grzegorz Wróblewski is available now at Amazon!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid_kgd9djMtTENM1j6z-gYWlc24msiCKZcTzji3hZC0gaEYDIdiZE2r0qv8BzDxp6s-5BTyU_R0Dq2UJvqSSlFCVa3QYTBKiuXHShGeL0QfCC_p69YNEv6bNuWEOd60C8HAS20RSkJDTRFGdKXHPA3KQQtBo-54XksCDQ4HzkWCBHV78VKnSmwMhuf_g/s2775/shantytownfrontcover.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2775" data-original-width="1866" height="473" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid_kgd9djMtTENM1j6z-gYWlc24msiCKZcTzji3hZC0gaEYDIdiZE2r0qv8BzDxp6s-5BTyU_R0Dq2UJvqSSlFCVa3QYTBKiuXHShGeL0QfCC_p69YNEv6bNuWEOd60C8HAS20RSkJDTRFGdKXHPA3KQQtBo-54XksCDQ4HzkWCBHV78VKnSmwMhuf_g/w318-h473/shantytownfrontcover.jpg" width="318" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Shanty Town</i></b> by Grzegorz Wróblewski is available now at Amazon. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1734866276?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details" target="_blank">Click here to purchase the book</a>.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The book also has an introduction written by the Australian poet and publisher of <i>Otoliths</i> Mark Young.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(15, 17, 17); color: #0f1111; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700;">Shanty Town</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(15, 17, 17); color: #0f1111;"> is an asemic work that demonstrates how ordinary handwriting can be elevated into a fine art. The writing dashes with expressive speed and invention, and plays with legibility in a mode of gestural decisiveness. The book is a document of abstract energy and poetic brilliance, and when opened the book presents the reader with a new contrasting spirit to digital art, and re-engages with the real world in a way that speaks across time. The hectic calligraphy works with an urgency and proclaims a new mode of rough writing in the extreme.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(15, 17, 17); color: #0f1111;"><br /></span></span></p><p><b style="caret-color: rgb(15, 17, 17); color: #0f1111; font-family: inherit;">Blurbs:</b></p><p style="background-color: white; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Rough, unkept, spontaneous and free, Grzegorz Wróblewski's <i>Shanty Town</i> depicts a blurry world of post-literate indecipherability. With coarsely drawn shapes imposed upon a chaos of asemic writing, this collection is built from the rubble of uncomfortable truths. A triumph of bold writing." </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;">— <b>Dave Read<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #2d2d2d;"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">"Shanty Town</span></span></i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2d2d2d;"> packs a powerful punch. It stakes you straight through the heart and throws you overboard, only to next moment toss you a life buoy. It's Grzegorz Wr</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228;">ó</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2d2d2d;">blewski's opus magnum, in which he brought together the heart and the mind on a whole new level. I see a world that worries him but nonetheless he manages to draw pure beauty from it. Somewhere in between, a fragile hope for salvation emerges. His own and ours." <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222;">— </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2d2d2d;"> <b>Karina Obara</b></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Manic notes from the underbelly. Scores scored out and scorching. Fenced off communities of frozen language. Prisons, pens and penal markings. Lines are blocked off, squashed into huddles and forever ringed or scarred. Sometimes a shape emerges shaken, tries to connect, map and communicate the inner terrain; but there's pain and great beauty here we can barely contemplate. Grzegorz Wróblewski's writings express the world village in trauma. There's nothing left to say, and this is the only way of saying it." </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">— <b>Stephen Nelson</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"The asemic projects of Grzegorz Wróblewski are a testimony to the skills of the human hand, used to convey meaning over millennia of evolution. In the infinite repetition of shapes, lines and colors, the hand reaches a state of maximum sensitivity that allows it to detect the epiphanic proto-signals of the micro- and macroworld." </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;">—<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228;">Anna Matysiak</span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="color: #222222;">"Shanty Town</span></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> is an unusual work, full of compositions unlike anything else I've seen. The pages appear to have been made in 2 stages, drawn annotations over handwritten or hand-drawn ideas underneath. The first stage ranges from well-behaved written lines as in a letter, to jerky scribbled fragmentary jottings, to sketchy doodles, young ideas captured at high speed. The second stage uses shapes such as rectangles, circles and lines, which appear to be organizing or explaining the first stage they partly cover. Although rectangles and rectangular frames are widely used, these works are at the loosest end of rectilinearity. Wr</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228;">ó</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">blewski uses visual rhetoric in a poetic way."</span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><br /><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">—<b>Tim Gaze</b>, author of </span><i style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Glyphs of Uncertain Meaning</i><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">, publisher of </span><i style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Asemic</i><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> magazine</span></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 4px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><br /></h2><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 4px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">Product details</h2><div id="detailBullets_feature_div" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><ul class="a-unordered-list a-nostyle a-vertical a-spacing-none detail-bullet-list" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: 0px 0px 1px 18px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Publisher : </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Post-Asemic Press (May 4, 2022)</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Language : </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">English</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Paperback : </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">63 pages</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">ISBN-10 : </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">1734866276</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">ISBN-13 : </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">978-1734866278</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Item Weight : </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">5.3 ounces</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Dimensions : </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">6 x 0.15 x 9 inches</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Price : $</b>12.00</span></span></li></ul><div><span style="color: #0f1111;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(15, 17, 17);"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #0f1111;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(15, 17, 17);"><b>Here are some links to purchase Shanty Town:</b></span></span></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="color: #0f1111;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(15, 17, 17);"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1734866276?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details" target="_blank">Amazon USA</a></span></span></li><li><span style="color: #0f1111;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(15, 17, 17);"><a href="https://www.amazon.com.au/Shanty-Town-Grzegorz-Wróblewski/dp/1734866276/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2DQSD6X7F3MU0&keywords=shanty+town+grzegorz&qid=1652216082&sprefix=shanty+town+grzegorz%2Caps%2C104&sr=8-2" target="_blank">Amazon Australia</a></span></span></li><li><span style="color: #0f1111;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(15, 17, 17);"><a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Shanty-Town-Grzegorz-Wróblewski/dp/1734866276/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2JHE0Y3IUIPQE&keywords=shanty+town+grzegorz&qid=1652215968&sprefix=shanty+town+grzegorz%2Caps%2C88&sr=8-1" target="_blank">Amazon Canada</a></span></span></li><li><span style="color: #0f1111;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(15, 17, 17);"><a href="https://www.amazon.fr/Shanty-Town-Grzegorz-Wróblewski/dp/1734866276/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_fr_FR=ÅMÅŽÕÑ&crid=11TG1DON2D0ZD&keywords=shanty+town+grzegorz&qid=1652216163&sprefix=shanty+town+grzegorz%2Caps%2C154&sr=8-1" target="_blank">Amazon France</a></span></span></li><li><span style="color: #0f1111;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(15, 17, 17);"><a href="https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Grzegorz-Wróblewski/dp/1734866276/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3CRHI2JQMYTPU&keywords=shanty+town+grzegorz&qid=1652216234&sprefix=shanty+town+grzegorz%2Caps%2C157&sr=8-1" target="_blank">Amazon Germany</a></span></span></li><li><span style="color: #0f1111;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(15, 17, 17);"><a href="https://www.amazon.it/Shanty-Town-Grzegorz-Wróblewski/dp/1734866276/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_it_IT=ÅMÅŽÕÑ&crid=325V29Y3GMO8V&keywords=shanty+town+Grzegorz&qid=1652216312&sprefix=shanty+town+grzegorz%2Caps%2C148&sr=8-1" target="_blank">Amazon Italy</a></span></span></li><li><span style="color: #0f1111;"><a href="https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/Grzegorz-Wróblewski/dp/1734866276/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2JTTVRFH345IO&keywords=shanty+town+Grzegorz&qid=1652216385&sprefix=shanty+town+grzegorz%2Caps%2C97&sr=8-1" target="_blank">Amazon Japan</a></span></li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.nl/Shanty-Town-Grzegorz-Wróblewski/dp/1734866276/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_nl_NL=ÅMÅŽÕÑ&crid=ZIDNNCGGPCKS&keywords=shanty+town+Grzegorz&qid=1652216553&sprefix=shanty+town+grzegorz%2Caps%2C157&sr=8-1" target="_blank">Amazon Netherlands</a></li><li><span style="color: #0f1111;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(15, 17, 17);"><a href="https://www.amazon.es/Shanty-Town-Grzegorz-Wróblewski/dp/1734866276/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_es_ES=ÅMÅŽÕÑ&crid=1JI26G51F3HSB&keywords=shanty+town+Grzegorz&qid=1652216680&sprefix=shanty+town+grzegorz%2Caps%2C180&sr=8-1" target="_blank">Amazon Spain</a></span></span></li><li><span style="color: #0f1111;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(15, 17, 17);"><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shanty-Town-Grzegorz-Wróblewski/dp/1734866276/ref=sr_1_1?crid=5PREMI923O73&keywords=shanty+town+Grzegorz&qid=1652216804&sprefix=shanty+town+grzegorz%2Caps%2C164&sr=8-1" target="_blank">Amazon UK</a></span></span></li></ul></div><div><span style="color: #0f1111;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(15, 17, 17);"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #0f1111;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(15, 17, 17);"><b>Here are some sample pages from Shanty Town:</b></span></span></div></div><ul class="a-unordered-list a-nostyle a-vertical a-spacing-none detail-bullet-list" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: 0px 0px 1px 18px; padding: 0px;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style="color: darkslategrey; font-size: 11.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.75pt;"> </span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI5OwrvsKdFbS1-9xzFpWdDnwMCGh1oVkHcEG5NWAhpasaxjOguG58S0c_ZasYhuKkK1wd8X6zS58mlWl12kP1tFmtfPS_2vGC9UuTP190bSth5Y2698TEgqhDCWEiat3zejqGtI65dU--nd3JB1nzMu2YaPpaFD_qxX-9UnX907ENBc9pzttXpzqV7g/s2700/4%20shanty%20town.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2700" data-original-width="1909" height="515" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI5OwrvsKdFbS1-9xzFpWdDnwMCGh1oVkHcEG5NWAhpasaxjOguG58S0c_ZasYhuKkK1wd8X6zS58mlWl12kP1tFmtfPS_2vGC9UuTP190bSth5Y2698TEgqhDCWEiat3zejqGtI65dU--nd3JB1nzMu2YaPpaFD_qxX-9UnX907ENBc9pzttXpzqV7g/w364-h515/4%20shanty%20town.jpg" width="364" /></a></b></div><b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdq2k8xlnC6OG5GLVbh5gt-vgvVYfVJRGJwPaPeCVyZTJ40MuFmhKjc_i3WxAXufTFh42IFeG6bvAdLyWT0JTRWGKw3H-xByOlS-9bHrrbqne9KYa768NpYhj5tG8DnoCLHThe-qWMMf2BCh7ypaR2dg2BvTBhlbuBkphofs6nhY4ieeIRBrFftHDKBw/s2775/shantytownbackcoverdone.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2775" data-original-width="1816" height="614" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdq2k8xlnC6OG5GLVbh5gt-vgvVYfVJRGJwPaPeCVyZTJ40MuFmhKjc_i3WxAXufTFh42IFeG6bvAdLyWT0JTRWGKw3H-xByOlS-9bHrrbqne9KYa768NpYhj5tG8DnoCLHThe-qWMMf2BCh7ypaR2dg2BvTBhlbuBkphofs6nhY4ieeIRBrFftHDKBw/w401-h614/shantytownbackcoverdone.jpg" width="401" /></a></b></div><b><br /><span style="color: darkslategrey; font-size: 11.5pt; letter-spacing: 0.75pt;"><br /></span></b><p></p>Michael Jacobson / MK JCBSNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07263168801773307708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-815586965412385154.post-82263020412407011892022-04-11T11:39:00.005-07:002022-05-09T17:17:25.580-07:00id est: neo scribalist asemic expressionism by Michael Jacobson<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAcnlnlEwRW9oDuM6ww8BAxyQ8QWTpQShkkML_zsr0R--gImYBaEsMGjPGymjHbyeBAx_TEZQf20fES36u7EZcdMPUrmqithH0m1-PWkln1fK9xQswr58kJetR-3Isz2jxFwtO0CsTvcRE-wjcz4MrShCy6bQIFqAp7pFujz65E4A9b6sk8CUXG_0Iig/s461/idestcover4frontcover.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="461" data-original-width="302" height="571" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAcnlnlEwRW9oDuM6ww8BAxyQ8QWTpQShkkML_zsr0R--gImYBaEsMGjPGymjHbyeBAx_TEZQf20fES36u7EZcdMPUrmqithH0m1-PWkln1fK9xQswr58kJetR-3Isz2jxFwtO0CsTvcRE-wjcz4MrShCy6bQIFqAp7pFujz65E4A9b6sk8CUXG_0Iig/w375-h571/idestcover4frontcover.jpg" width="375" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Here are sample pages from my work in progress</span><span style="font-size: large; text-align: left;"> </span><b style="text-align: left;"><i>id est: neo scribalist asemic expressionism.</i></b><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The book is scheduled to be released on my 50th birthday in 2023 by Post-Asemic Press. <b><i>id est</i></b> is an abstract illuminated manuscript that will be 73 pages in length and reflect the universe as I have experienced it. I am posting all the pages on my Facebook wall as I complete painting them. I am using gouache and watercolor pencils to hand-paint the pages one at a time. So far I am up to page 42. The book will be a hardcover and will be available in a print-on-demand edition. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Manuscripts that influenced me are The Book of Kells, The Voynich Manuscript, The Codex Seraphinianus, and the painted books from Mexico. Though my book is influenced by the totality of human expression going all the way back to cave art and forward to asemic calligraphy, graffiti, neo expressionism, and alien scripts in science fiction. Kenneth Patchen's painted poems are another source of inspiration for me. William Blake's Illuminated Manuscripts are a major influence on my book though more in spirit than aesthetically.</span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisQpWb9DdZnuLe255JQfhSLsjAKp8EviqiSCg77TrlS5pu4jE9e9B0pZx74U6PLrOmSxwIg5yPVHRFJVYsCN2RAPWMqeZiaFv19UA7zX6AG9Ewyu0UUgy_sUXuiQpC_1Y_dP3qCgJasxEbPYRMe8h76TTBtmhDddkmKa5T_m4Nz2V6PdnG_hrRnV0tFA/s4608/IMG_20220408_184235674_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4608" data-original-width="3456" height="549" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisQpWb9DdZnuLe255JQfhSLsjAKp8EviqiSCg77TrlS5pu4jE9e9B0pZx74U6PLrOmSxwIg5yPVHRFJVYsCN2RAPWMqeZiaFv19UA7zX6AG9Ewyu0UUgy_sUXuiQpC_1Y_dP3qCgJasxEbPYRMe8h76TTBtmhDddkmKa5T_m4Nz2V6PdnG_hrRnV0tFA/w412-h549/IMG_20220408_184235674_HDR.jpg" width="412" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOsw5OOr-FSejIACW_zbP-uRZ2dqUsgnRcoIzg2Q49J61T7YQ5IihxTkjB-dNkT83CJz-Qw-v9axlAouBg7mjAQxNl7jm26CmcId-oXCRVbdhEXk81DNswuyCB-cBky8J2FJQtJtC1u8XY6QJ_VyLjb7be5YZ4rC9Q6C7pMPSZFn3Qtlp7j8ec3axrGw/s4608/original_1b7d3a9e-9a2d-4cec-8f50-ee6beb91d7ba_IMG_20220319_110142975.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4608" data-original-width="3456" height="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOsw5OOr-FSejIACW_zbP-uRZ2dqUsgnRcoIzg2Q49J61T7YQ5IihxTkjB-dNkT83CJz-Qw-v9axlAouBg7mjAQxNl7jm26CmcId-oXCRVbdhEXk81DNswuyCB-cBky8J2FJQtJtC1u8XY6QJ_VyLjb7be5YZ4rC9Q6C7pMPSZFn3Qtlp7j8ec3axrGw/w413-h550/original_1b7d3a9e-9a2d-4cec-8f50-ee6beb91d7ba_IMG_20220319_110142975.jpg" width="413" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC94fKpnLdJk-kF6VDEGq0iNwNdjIs8tqZ8idc0Gq6eXApI98ocuLbld64aKnMLa2lIWdAbVsUDF6iPwIlbcaGwJ-90tS2KqJx6_Ye1fSRFXie2SXH61NiOtBz3SaJpGD93WCufR6RHsNmddEU-JDk97_2MCbuju1tP0V7K8XUcEmWkcWE5v37q7uMHA/s4608/original_87173c29-746a-4cfc-9bdb-434ade031e97_IMG_20220325_220556118.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4608" data-original-width="3456" height="548" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC94fKpnLdJk-kF6VDEGq0iNwNdjIs8tqZ8idc0Gq6eXApI98ocuLbld64aKnMLa2lIWdAbVsUDF6iPwIlbcaGwJ-90tS2KqJx6_Ye1fSRFXie2SXH61NiOtBz3SaJpGD93WCufR6RHsNmddEU-JDk97_2MCbuju1tP0V7K8XUcEmWkcWE5v37q7uMHA/w411-h548/original_87173c29-746a-4cfc-9bdb-434ade031e97_IMG_20220325_220556118.jpg" width="411" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p>Michael Jacobson / MK JCBSNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07263168801773307708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-815586965412385154.post-12922467521616021662022-04-10T09:50:00.000-07:002022-04-10T09:50:28.443-07:00Michael Jacobson has 3 books out now! Check out his latest book Somnolent Game!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5wvkfw7cmy8okvOZKaFSv912L2Y_6doES4Gdh3v2Ll-AoILiK1iA6jlpKH6eo7mCiiGsNWwIM4DeeEA5NmjXPtcRhV9aT0aer-1ikQJoE-CY1w77ip0mBAX_QbIcoNdH0fxQeua4q-lUC-LQPhM-EXvcF5FxX9-mpFWyrLZCZaryvxuCfpn8wnWqIdQ/s4608/IMG_20220410_094912322.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="363" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5wvkfw7cmy8okvOZKaFSv912L2Y_6doES4Gdh3v2Ll-AoILiK1iA6jlpKH6eo7mCiiGsNWwIM4DeeEA5NmjXPtcRhV9aT0aer-1ikQJoE-CY1w77ip0mBAX_QbIcoNdH0fxQeua4q-lUC-LQPhM-EXvcF5FxX9-mpFWyrLZCZaryvxuCfpn8wnWqIdQ/w484-h363/IMG_20220410_094912322.jpg" width="484" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><div><span style="font-size: medium;">I officially have 3 paperback books out! My latest book <a href="https://postasemicpress.blogspot.com/2022/04/somnolent-game-by-michael-jacobson-is.html" target="_blank"><i>Somnolent Game</i></a> was released earlier this week from Post-Asemic Press. But with print on demand technology my older titles will stay in print as long as the Internet exists. So my backlist titles <a href="https://postasemicpress.blogspot.com/2020/10/hei-kuu-by-michael-jacobson-is.html" target="_blank"><i>Hei Kuu</i></a> and <a href="http://postasemicpress.blogspot.com/2017/04/works-interviews-by-michael-jacobson-is.html" target="_blank"><i>Works & Interviews</i></a> are still available to purchase at online bookstores. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Somnolent-Game-Michael-Jacobson/dp/1736614703/ref=sr_1_1?crid=F6806AYH2KN9&keywords=somnolent+game&qid=1649605792&s=books&sprefix=somnolent+game%2Cstripbooks%2C92&sr=1-1" target="_blank"><i>Somnolent Game</i></a> is a book about desire, the desire to leave a bad situation for something better, even if it means facing death, even if you are Death. It is a book that was influenced by stream-of-conscious writing and surrealism. It's a fast paced prose poetry novella that goes on a psychological adventure through the mind of Itallica Loghost. A character who just wants one good night of sleep.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1734866225/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i4" target="_blank"><i>Hei Kuu</i></a> is my personal mythology and was my first collection of purely verbal senryu/haiku minimalist poetry. I wrote the book drunk and edited it sober as Hemingway suggested. The book is rich with language even though the poems are short. It was released in 2020 and is autobiographical to the point of satire, drama, and tragedy. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Works-Interviews-Michael-Jacobson/dp/1732878803/ref=sr_1_1?crid=7XQX09OWG2XO&keywords=works+%26+Interviews+Michael+Jacobson&qid=1649606773&s=books&sprefix=works+%26+interviews+michael+jacobson%2Cstripbooks%2C97&sr=1-1" target="_blank">Works & Interviews</a> </i>is where I got my start with so many writing endeavors. It's a book that travels from asemic calligraphy to my many thoughts on asemic writing. This is a book that I am hoping will become a classic someday, and climb out of its underground status. Most of everything in the book is available for free online, but W&I collects everything together in one book, and presents it offline as a document of my existence. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Here is my personal author blog: <a href="https://michaeljacobsonauthor.blogspot.com">https://michaeljacobsonauthor.blogspot.com</a></span></div>Michael Jacobson / MK JCBSNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07263168801773307708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-815586965412385154.post-24762892282542264892022-04-06T11:14:00.002-07:002022-04-06T11:14:30.560-07:00A New Author Site For Michael Jacobson aka Asemic Writer/MK JCBSN <p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQNQhmiPFT4DW9nyr6x-9LnlM1RsB-ez2QE0yU8dIffK7PMxYheogUhu3hGtbeSKOl2UoIgKULdVUY5sHa_7cegL7oV6J_NzW1nE9RQIWLfZnwiT30BgFWDvYIIeKC421tcxa0g2FYI-HWBWLW6XJksRe3CbNHh2msxTDu8znVXM68O5U-uLrZoHHfkw/s302/somgamecoverfrontdone.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="302" data-original-width="203" height="302" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQNQhmiPFT4DW9nyr6x-9LnlM1RsB-ez2QE0yU8dIffK7PMxYheogUhu3hGtbeSKOl2UoIgKULdVUY5sHa_7cegL7oV6J_NzW1nE9RQIWLfZnwiT30BgFWDvYIIeKC421tcxa0g2FYI-HWBWLW6XJksRe3CbNHh2msxTDu8znVXM68O5U-uLrZoHHfkw/s1600/somgamecoverfrontdone.jpg" width="203" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />I have a new personal author blog to promote my books. My information was scattered across many different websites and I needed a place to bring all of my asemic/verbal writing together into one location. I have my <a href="https://ello.co/asemicwriter">Ello site</a>, and <a href="https://thatplanet.blogspot.com" target="_blank">THATplanet</a>. But I needed a room of my own to decorate and focus on my books, personal writing, and asemic scribbling. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Click here to visit my website: <a href="http://michaeljacobsonauthor.blogspot.com">http://michaeljacobsonauthor.blogspot.com</a></span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Michael Jacobson / MK JCBSNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07263168801773307708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-815586965412385154.post-4600624754867980642022-04-04T13:31:00.001-07:002023-08-01T09:58:32.932-07:00Somnolent Game by Michael Jacobson is available now!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjafY2-zQKxVnr9iLoiQvT42qAs97Y4Zi8ptqHG3bosIzewkoQfgxE-rGl61PlW205WsLPvJ5mM0JczNwgJI9WbXj6HAVD1Ap3uXM3MIvxR_VIMhiAw9m93HBKbHL0m24edR_am6wDn1n8bImaZ48pm4M9VRJZjn0j5WW-Qlo2y-zwjz2r0-P9cI677NA/s2789/somgamecoverfrontdone.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2789" data-original-width="1881" height="477" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjafY2-zQKxVnr9iLoiQvT42qAs97Y4Zi8ptqHG3bosIzewkoQfgxE-rGl61PlW205WsLPvJ5mM0JczNwgJI9WbXj6HAVD1Ap3uXM3MIvxR_VIMhiAw9m93HBKbHL0m24edR_am6wDn1n8bImaZ48pm4M9VRJZjn0j5WW-Qlo2y-zwjz2r0-P9cI677NA/w322-h477/somgamecoverfrontdone.jpg" width="322" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(3, 3, 3); color: #030303; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><p>My latest book <b><i>Somnolent Game</i></b> is available now at <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1736614703/?coliid=IIT28ESLHRP2Z&colid=20VQDP9TSPIWI&psc=1&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it" target="_blank">Amazon</a> and other online book retailers.</p><i style="font-weight: bold;">Somnolent Game</i></span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(3, 3, 3); color: #030303; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is a prose poetry novella about a bot maniac who has achieved sentience due to someone else’s fragmented memories. He is an insomniac and is trying to escape violence and dream his way into paradise, and become a clone in the after-after-life. Along the way he has many mental challenges that he must overcome. The story is written in a quick stream-of-conscious writing style that reflects the author’s actual thought processes along with memories both real and fictional.</span></span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(3, 3, 3); color: #030303; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(3, 3, 3); color: #030303; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">I wrote <b><i>Somnolent Game</i></b> over winter break, of the 2020/2021 school year, while I was studying art at Minneapolis College. The book began as an exercise in free writing and developed into a full length novella. I proceeded to sculpt and edit the book over 2021 and into the early part of 2022. It is a work that I thought I should release during national poetry month because the book shifts back and forth between poetry and prose. I like to write novellas (<b><i>The Giant's Fence</i></b> was my first) because they are a good length to turn into film scripts some day, and they burst with poetical prosaic energy. I don't have much money, so I try to be rich in my writing and art. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(3, 3, 3); color: #030303; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(3, 3, 3); color: #030303; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><i>Somnolent Game</i></b> is a story of life and death and an anti-hero's journey across a dangerous mind-scape. </span></span></div><div><span style="color: #030303; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(3, 3, 3); white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><ul class="a-unordered-list a-nostyle a-vertical a-spacing-none detail-bullet-list" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(15, 17, 17); color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1px 18px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Publisher : </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Post-Asemic Press (April 3, 2022)</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Language : </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">English</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Paperback : </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">122 pages</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">ISBN-10 : </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">1736614703</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">ISBN-13 : </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">978-1736614709</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Item Weight : </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">8.5 ounces</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Dimensions : </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">6 x 0.28 x 9 inches</span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="a-list-item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Price </b>: $12.00 </span></span></li></ul><div><span face="Amazon Ember, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1111;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Here is the first three pages from <i>Somnolent Game</i> read by the author:</span></h2><div><span face="Amazon Ember, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1111;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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His books include</span><a href="https://www.ubu.com/vp/Jacobson.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The Giant’s Fence</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Ubu Editions),</span><a href="http://avance.randomflux.info/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Action Figures</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Avance Publishing),</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/page/edit/815586965412385154/7585323559021591132#" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZCBgIdje7w" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mynd Eraser</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtEQR2v9f28" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Paranoia Machine</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, his collected writings</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/page/edit/815586965412385154/7585323559021591132#" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></a><a href="http://postasemicpress.blogspot.com/2017/04/works-interviews-by-michael-jacobson-is.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Works & Interviews</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Post-Asemic Press), and</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/page/edit/815586965412385154/7585323559021591132#" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">his autobiographical collection of senryu poems </span><a href="https://postasemicpress.blogspot.com/2020/10/hei-kuu-by-michael-jacobson-is.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hei Kuu</span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Post-Asemic Press); he is also co-editor of </span><a href="https://punctumbooks.com/titles/an-anthology-of-asemic-handwriting/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">An Anthology Of Asemic Handwriting</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Punctum Books). Besides writing books, he curates a gallery for</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asemic_writing#:~:text=Asemic%20writing%20is%20a%20wordless,to%20fill%20in%20and%20interpret." style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> asemic writing</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> called </span><a href="http://thenewpostliterate.blogspot.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The New Post-Literate</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and sits on the editorial board of</span><a href="https://scriptjr.nl/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> SCRIPTjr.nl</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Recently, he was published in</span><a href="https://blog.fantagraphics.com/the-last-vispo-anthology-visual-poetry-1998-2008-previews-pre-order/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Last Vispo Anthology</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Fantagraphics), and curated the Minnesota Center for Book Arts exhibit:</span><a href="https://youtu.be/bLzVPEwUusE" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Asemic Writing: Offline & In The Gallery</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. His online interviews are at</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/page/edit/815586965412385154/7585323559021591132#" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></a><a href="http://www.fullofcrow.com/prate/2009/08/michael-jacobson/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Full of Crow</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">,</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/page/edit/815586965412385154/7585323559021591132#" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></a><a href="https://samplekanon.com/interview-michael-jacobson/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SampleKanon</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">,</span><a href="https://www.asymptotejournal.com/visual/michael-jacobson-on-asemic-writing/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Asymptote Journal</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="https://asemics.com/24-hours-interview-by-josh-medsker-and-michael-jacobson/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Twenty Four Hours</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/dalanbinder/blog/0664-236post-authorinterviewwithmichaeljacobsonbydavidalanbinder" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">David Alan Binder</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1LLQYefDjiIJFGs19Hpr2nYTCM3ajbmSIa1-zWiSvDM8/edit" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">GAS</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="https://www.utsanga.it/jacobson-kingston-lee-michael-jacobson-interview-by-beth-kingston-lee/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Utsanga</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, <i><u><a href="https://poemeleon.me/spotlight-michael-jacobson" target="_blank">Poemeleon</a></u>,</i> and at</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/page/edit/815586965412385154/7585323559021591132#" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></a><a href="https://volodymyrbilyk.medium.com/volodymyr-bilyk-in-conversation-with-michael-jacobson-a12b47dc27ef" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Medium</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. In the past he created the cover art for</span><a href="https://www.raintaxi.com/volume-19-number-4-winter-2014-76/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rain Taxi</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">’s 2014 winter issue, and as of 2017 he has become a book publisher at</span><a href="http://postasemicpress.blogspot.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Post-Asemic Press</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. In 2019 he was written up in the book </span><a href="https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/asemic" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Asemic: The Art of Writing</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (University of Minnesota Press) by Peter Schwenger; it has an entire chapter dedicated to Jacobson’s calligraphic work. He also founded and administers the</span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/76178850228" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> asemic writing Facebook group</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. In his spare time, he is working on designing a cyberspace planet dubbed</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/page/edit/815586965412385154/7585323559021591132#" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></a><a href="http://thatplanet.blogspot.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">THAT</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. His Ello studio can be found here:</span><a href="https://ello.co/asemicwriter" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> @asemicwriter</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></p><br /></span></div></div></div>Michael Jacobson / MK JCBSNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07263168801773307708noreply@blogger.com