A New Author Site For Michael Jacobson aka Asemic Writer/MK JCBSN

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 Ello site, and THATplanet. But I needed a room of my own to decorate and focus on my books, personal writing, and asemic scribbling. 

Click here to visit my website: http://michaeljacobsonauthor.blogspot.com

Somnolent Game by Michael Jacobson is available now!

 

My latest book Somnolent Game is available now at Amazon and other online book retailers.

Somnolent Game 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.

I wrote Somnolent Game 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 (The Giant's Fence 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. 

Somnolent Game is a story of life and death and an anti-hero's journey across a dangerous mind-scape.

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Post-Asemic Press (April 3, 2022)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 122 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1736614703
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1736614709
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.5 ounces
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.28 x 9 inches
• Price : $12.00 

Here is the first three pages from Somnolent Game read by the author:

           

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Michael Jacobson is a writer, artist, publisher, and independent curator from Minneapolis, Minnesota USA. His books include The Giant’s Fence (Ubu Editions), Action Figures (Avance Publishing), Mynd Eraser, The Paranoia Machine,  his collected writings Works & Interviews (Post-Asemic Press), and his autobiographical collection of senryu poems Hei Kuu (Post-Asemic Press); he is also co-editor of An Anthology Of Asemic Handwriting (Punctum Books). Besides writing books, he curates a gallery for asemic writing called The New Post-Literate, and sits on the editorial board of SCRIPTjr.nl. Recently, he was published in The Last Vispo Anthology (Fantagraphics), and curated the Minnesota Center for Book Arts exhibit: Asemic Writing: Offline & In The Gallery. His online interviews are at Full of Crow,  SampleKanon, Asymptote Journal, Twenty Four Hours, David Alan Binder, GAS, Utsanga, Poemeleon, and at Medium. In the past he created the cover art for Rain Taxi’s 2014 winter issue, and as of 2017 he has become a book publisher at Post-Asemic Press. In 2019 he was written up in the book Asemic: The Art of Writing (University of Minnesota Press) by Peter Schwenger; it has an entire chapter dedicated to Jacobson’s calligraphic work. He also founded and administers the asemic writing Facebook group. In his spare time, he is working on designing a cyberspace planet dubbed THAT. His Ello studio can be found here: @asemicwriter. 

I am interviewed in the latest issue of Poemeleon!

Maureen Alsop interviewed me for Poemeleon. It's an all Vispo/Asemic issue. Other PAP authors also featured are Tim Gaze, Rosaire Appel, and Cecil Touchon. 

Check it out here: https://poemeleon.me/new-vispo-toc

Asemic Sound Experience by Tatiana Roumelioti

 

                                             

Post-Asemic Press is excited to release a short 4 track ep of sound poetry by the great artist Tatiana Roumelioti. Check it out now on the PAP Bandcamp site. Tatiana warps language in suspenseful new ways and takes the asemic off the page and into wild new terrain. She also explains the word asemic from its origin in the Greek language in the final track.  The album is the latest release from the PAP sonic division. Look for more sound poetry, experimental poetry, noise poetry, and vocalized asemic poetry to be released by PAP in the future. Happy listening!

Somnolent Game by Michael Jacobson | A few sample pages read by the author.

 

           

               

Here are three sample pages from Somnolent Game read by the author Michael Jacobson. The book will be released from Post-Asemic Press in April of 2022. Somnolent Game 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. 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. I have been hard at work on this book over the past year. I plan on bringing it out next month (April 2022) because it will be national poetry month. The process of writing the book was something of an exorcism. I used to play a lot of violent video games but stopped playing them because I got sick of how they were so controlling over me. Somnolent Game is about becoming something new out of the culture of ashes. The world is so violent I decided to stop feeding the conflict in my own small way. It has been years since I seriously played video games and I am much more productive without them.  I realize that they aren't real, but as someone with the sense that reality and virtual worlds feed off one another, I decided to try and exist more peacefully in the real world and this has also carried over into becoming a vegetarian and doing meditation along with making art again. If people enjoy playing video games that is their business but for me my mind has had enough and I think I have reached a better awareness about my mind and spirit. Somnolent Game is my story told in poetic fragments unified into a real virtuality. 

 

Schizo Variations by Asemic Writer is available now at Bandcamp! Happy 2022 from PAP!

 

Schizo Variation (noise, asemic, & sound poetry) by Asemic Writer is available now for pre-order at Bandcamp!

Well I finally got around to collecting some of my sound/noise poetry ideas onto an audio recording, and the result is Schizo Variations. I spent years thinking about doing a soundpo album and the past week recording it and bringing it to fruition. Post-Asemic Press is excited to release this epic grind of vocal distortion. Noise poetry is what I call it, though sound poetry and vocalized asemic poetry also work as adequate descriptors. There are 7 tracks on this record of various lengths and intensity. The album has 7 poems with sonic backing ranging across the full spectrum of my vocal ability. At times the album rocks and at other instances it offers confusion. The concept of the album is about crawling out of the mental pit and learning how to survive when your own mind has turned against you.

Look for it to be released on New Years Day 2022.

Pre-order at Bandcamp: https://post-asemicpress.bandcamp.com/album/schizo-variations

$5.00 is the pre-order price.