Monday, April 4, 2022

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. 


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