Thursday, October 10, 2024

I Am AG Davis: A New Sound Poetry Album: Available Now At Bandcamp!

 



"Most of the material is from the last yr or 2, with a couple pueces being slightly older than that. All the instrumentation / sounds were by me with the exception of a few tracks where my brother, bryan davis, played acoustic guitar (1915 and tar) and electric bass (holes). 

I am pleased with it, although i know some strict-to-form listeners might take exception as the material often falls outside of the 'standard' rubric of sound poetry, at least, sound poetry as i've come to conventionally understand it, or, often hear it performed. Aside from the backing music/sounds, all of the voice material was improvised on the spot over the composed music, so i would write the music out, and then record it in 1 or 2 takes while adding the vox...
All in all, i am very pleased with the results 
I hope you are as well!"

—AG Davis

Friday, September 20, 2024

Writ Bodies Ov Titivillus by Michael Jacobson is Available Now at Amazon!

 

Salut et bienvenue dans ma nouvelle clandestine française.

Comic transgressions have arrived, and the pen and photoshop clasp hands in this short tale through a popular hell. The creatures offer their benign forms across the page, with hints of abstract sexuality and interdimensional companionship. They invite you into their forms and disappear as easily as the chromatic wind. Graphic, yet tasteful and precise, they permit the spectator to dive into their enigma. They are diverse and bold dreams dancing on the pallet of their energies. 


I began creating Writ Bodies Ov Titivillus in 2023. I hand drew all the pages on white drawing paper with a mean tactical pen. Once the drawings were completed, I scanned them into photoshop, and played with flat introductions of color, many with a pop art simplicity, and graphic novel intent. The only secrets in this book are the ones brought and deposited by the reader. 

This was the last book I wrote in downtown Minneapolis; I left the city as a blank canvas and moved out into the halo to polish the manuscript to a state of blissful satisfaction.  Open the covers of this book as if you were getting into any strange bed. They may startle the timid and meek, yet they are more playful than the criminal actors on the nightly news. If they could build a fire from their actions, it would be one of comfort instead of rage. Writ Bodies Ov Titivillus is a seance hovering over the plastic streets on an adventure through the author's backyard and imaginative intent.

Titivillus is the demon patron of illuminated scribes. T gives bold teachable scriveners a kick in the ass over their scriptural deviance. The book is primarily an art novella because the mission was novelty, and why collapse into cliché and dereliction. Yes, this is a book that spoofs on sexual obsession, as any wise comedy should.

The book contains a 3-page introduction by the American poet Jim Leftwich. The book finalizes with the most extensive CV/Bio that the author has ever offered to all the animals, vampires, robots, spirits, monsters, and the rare humanoid who seem to make up his primary fan base. 


Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Post-Asemic Press (September 9, 2024)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 74 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1736614770
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1736614778
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.18 x 9 inches
  • Price : $14.00

Writ Bodies Ov Titivillus is Available Now Internationally at Amazon...


Here are a few sample pages to get the excitment going:





Sunday, March 24, 2024

The Poet by Tanner Menard is Out Now from Post-Asemic Press! PAP #027

 

The Poet by Tanner Menard is the latest release from Post-Asemic Press. The book is available now at Amazon

It is impossible to say that a poem begins or ends, or to strictly define it. Anyone who tries, by nature, is bound to fail or delude themselves and others. In our current age, we are transitioning from the dense, brute mechanics of the 19th and 20th centuries into a glittering future of unspeakable high technology. This era increasingly defines us by our ability to manipulate and continually update our presence within an algorithm—a tool primarily used for surveillance. Yet, despite this, our humanity, and even more so our essence as beings of eternal light, transcends the abstract and conceptual dimensions. Poetry emerges from these dimensions into our 3D reality, returning in some unfathomable way to the voices that speak it from beyond. What we miss in this glittering age is the potential for the human being to live by intuition, to develop the ability to sense and experience reality in its complete depth. To know what we know by being present rather than distracted. To develop, that is to say, a poetics of telepathy.

I first intercepted some of the ideas that ultimately led to The Poet around 2017 during a lunch with CA Conrad, who gave me a sip of water charged by their crystal grid. Soon after, I started a notebook of poems written by experiments in plant telepathy while living with my friend Ramona in her home of ceremonial instruments, murals, poetry, and myriad influences of syncretic wonder. I was writing a book I couldn't finish about developing tuning systems, angels, and Indigenous Gods; in 2018, Julian Brolaski sent me a copy of Jack Spicer's collected works. I loved the idea of a poetry of dictation, downloading poems, or letting poems come out of me like, as Jean Mitchell would say, an "Action Stroke." I started a poetry salon, fell in love, and struggled during those days. Contrapuntal poems that looked like tuning forks began to emerge.

Then, the quarantine happened. I got more devotional about my kundalini practice and started using a particular optic nerve meditation to download poetry. People I care about came and went, and I used these meditations and the act of poetry to rewrite my thinking patterns and mental intrigues about these people I have known across multiple lifetimes. Ariana Reines, who I was fortunate to work with privately through her Invisible College offerings, a fellow kundalini practitioner, helped me to develop a lot of the ideas that had come out of a question that I had posed to our late teacher Guru Jagat, "How Can I use Kundalini to get poetry." Her answer still informs everything I do and every word in the poem. Karl Kempton, Sherwin Bitsui, a few others and all those unnamed gave it shape.

This is not a dictatorial poem, but a telepathic poetics that ultimately is a love song to the divine through a meditation on another. It is non-linear and contrapuntal, and the catharsis happens in the opening lines. It is structured in a sonata-allegro form, and therefore, though it climaxes at the end, it is resolved in its opening.

I wrote this poem as an action stroke. Something came to me, came through me, I called it, I did it, I didn't do anything at all. It was me, it wasn't me, but it wasn't not me. I felt something. Science wasn't perfect enough to name it. I touched it, and it touched my mouth, my pen, my fingers, and the electrons of my so-called computer made it so. All of this is The Poet in between worlds.



Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Post-Asemic Press (March 1, 2024)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 84 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1736614762
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1736614761
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.2 x 9 inches
  • Price : $18.00

Links to purchase The Poet:





Here is an album version of The Poet by Tanner that accompanies this book release. It is available at Bandcamp from Full Spectrum Records.



Sunday, March 3, 2024

Woodhouse Moor 0424-0436am by Michael Sutton is out Now at the PAP Bandcamp Site!

 


Just released from Post-Asemic Press: Woodhouse Moor 0424-0436am 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. Click here to check out the album.


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.

Thursday, November 23, 2023

GRADIENTS by Kristine Snodgrass is Out Now @ Amazon! Post-Asemic Press #026

 

Out now from Post-Asemic Press, Gradients by Kristine Snodgrass! 

She best explains the book here:

"Gradients 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."

“Snodgrass’s Gradients 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!” 

–Andrew Brenza

“In the twisted cosmic dance of cannibalistic energies, Kristine Snodgrass’ Gradients 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. Gradients 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. Gradients 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.”


—Kenji Siratori, author of Blood Electric and Paracelsus


Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Post-Asemic Press (November 15, 2023)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 64 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1736614754
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1736614754
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 16 - + years
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.3 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.16 x 9 inches
  • Price : $16.00

Gradients is available at these links:
Sample images from GRADIENTS:








Bio: 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, GRADIENTS, 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.



Wednesday, November 15, 2023

ouou ouou aieae by Bård Torgersen is out now from Post-Asemic Press via Bandcamp!

Today Post-Asemic Press is excited to release a new sound poetry album titled ouou ouou aieae by Norwegian poet Bård Torgersen. Here he is explaining his work:

 

"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. 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."

—Bård Torgersen

The cover art for the album was created by Stener Vaagland.