id est: neo scribalist asemic expressionism by Michael Jacobson

Here are sample pages from my work in progress id est: neo scribalist asemic expressionism.

The book is scheduled to be released on my 50th birthday in 2023 by Post-Asemic Press. id est 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. 

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.

Michael Jacobson has 3 books out now! Check out his latest book Somnolent Game!

 

I officially have 3 paperback books out! My latest book Somnolent Game 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 Hei Kuu and Works & Interviews are still available to purchase at online bookstores.  

Somnolent Game 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.

Hei Kuu 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. 

Works & Interviews 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. 

Here is my personal author blog: https://michaeljacobsonauthor.blogspot.com

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