Coming soon! Zinc Zanc Zunc: An Asemic Conjugation by Rosaire Appel | Post-Asemic Press #003

Coming soon, in May 2017, Zinc Zanc Zunc: An Asemic Conjugation by Rosaire Appel. Zinc Zanc Zunc is an asemic journey through various abstract atmospheres and unlimited futures.

Her bio: Rosaire Appel (NYC) is an ex-writer, graphic artist exploring the betweens of reading/looking/listening. She makes books  (commercially printed, hand-made and recycled), ink drawings and digital drawings. Her subject is, basically, visual language. Using a combination of abstract comics and asemic writing, she develops sequences which remain open to interpretation by keeping the relationship between the viewer and the work active. Her website is: www.rosaireappel.com.

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Coming soon! Post-Asemic Press titles will be sold at Minnesota Center for Book Art's bookshop.

photo by Marcia Brauer

Coming soon: Post-Asemic Press titles will be sold at MCBA's bookshop. Photo: Me @ Asemic Writing: Offline & In The Gallery @ MCBA which runs till May 28th 2017

Works & Interviews by Michael Jacobson is now available at Amazon! | Post-Asemic Press #001

Page 1 from The Giant's Fence/Works & Interviews

Works & Interviews collects Michael Jacobson's dynamic asemic writing and his thoughts on the current asemic movement in art and literature. Included in the book are his asemic "stories" The Giant's Fence, Action Figures, A Headhunter's Tale, PΩz, THAT: A Plan(et), and The Paranoia Machine. The text also contains 9 interviews he has given to various online journals over the years such as at Full of Crow, SCRIPTjr.nl, Samplekannon, Asymptote Journal, Slova, Twenty-Four Hours, David Allen Binder, 4 Questions with Marco Giovenale, and also includes a previously unpublished interview with Jacobson by poet and journalist Volodymyr Bilyk. Works & Interviews documents the evolution of an early 21st century artist, writer, and publisher who uses science fiction calligraphic scripts to explore the locus of manuscript art in relation to technology and internet culture. Since 2008 Michael Jacobson has curated the influential blog/gallery The New Post-Literate: A Gallery Of Asemic Writing, and in 2017 he was a guest curator of the Minnesota Center for Book Arts exhibit Asemic Writing: Offline & In The Gallery, which was the first large-scale group exhibit of asemic writing in the United States. In 2013 he co-edited with Tim Gaze An Anthology Of Asemic Handwriting, which collected over one hundred asemic scribes from around the world and is the most definitive collection of asemic literature published so far. In 2017 he founded Post-Asemic Press to publish asemic writing, experimental literature, post-graffiti, abstract comics, visual poetry, Lettrisme, abstract calligraphy, etc. He currently lives in Minneapolis, is a father, an avid cyclist, and posts most of his asemics, art, and gif animation pohmz to his online ELLO studio: @asemicwriter.

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Michael's Bio:

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 Utsanga, Full of Crow, Schizoaffective, SampleKanon, Asymptote Journal, Twenty Four Hours, David Alan Binder, 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.

Proof copies for Spencer Selby's Unknown Message and Michael Jacobson's Works & Interviews arrived today

Proof copies arrived in the mail today: Spencer Selby's Unknown Message and my book Works & Interviews. These are the first two titles from Post-Asemic Press. They will be available for purchase sometime in the next week.

There is Now an Official Facebook Page, Gmail Account, and Logo for Post-Asemic Press

Click here for the official facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/mkjcbsn/

I now have a gmail account too:
postasemicpress@gmail.com

And the Logo:

Coming Soon! Unknown Message by Spencer Selby | Post-Asemic Press #002

This is a fantastic book of asemic writing from the great visual/verbal poet and film scholar Spencer Selby. There are no words in the text just beautiful asemic writing in infinite forms. Unknown Message is the second title to be released from Post-Asemic Press. It will be available in April of 2017.

Here is his bio: Born and raised in the Midwest, poet and artist Spencer Selby was educated at the University of Iowa. His experimental and visual poems are concerned with beauty, structure, and utility. Reviewing Selby’s poems for Slope, Amaranth Borsuk observed: “Their shifting ‘terrain of fabric’ is an open weave pierced with losses predicated by war and consumerism.… Selby's language remains rich and elusive, twisting both toward and away from the reader in a complex montage.”

Selby is the author of numerous poetry collections, including Twist of Address (2007), Task (1999), and Instar (1989). He also wrote the nonfiction reference guide Dark City: The Film Noir (1984). His work has been included in the anthologies Word Score Utterance Choreography (1998), Primary Trouble: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry (1996), and The Art of Practice: Forty-Five Contemporary Poets (1994).

Selby founded SINK Press in San Francisco in the early 1980s, organized the Canessa Park Reading Series from 1987 to 1993, and has served as co-editor of the visual poetry magazine Score. Since 1993, he has maintained “The List of Experimental Poetry/Art Magazines,” which he updates online at www.selbyslist.com.

Coming Soon! Works & Interviews by Michael Jacobson | Post-Asemic Press #001

Here is the official cover art for Works & Interviews. The book contains my asemic novella The Giant's Fence, my asemic hieroglyphic work Action Figures, A Headhunter's Tale, 8 interviews with  myself, THATplanet, and The Paranoia Machine. This will be the first title from Post-Asemic Press and it will drop in April 2017.

This book was a major learning experience for me. It is mainly about self-discovery and over coming mental obstacles. In Works & Interviews I have documented my travels through the psychic tundra of mental and spiritual disturbance. Some people pray, I make asemic writing. Almost everything in Works & Interviews is available for free online on various websites, but I think books are cool, and like vinyl records, they are fun to collect.

I am starting Post-Asemic Press because someone had to. Tim Gaze has his great imprint Asemic Editions, but I was looking to start something that would publish asemic works more often, and be distributed more widely. Thanks to print-on-demand technology and the internet, niche subjects like asemic writing are becoming increasingly easier to distribute into the real world. I love cyberspace as much as anyone, and asemic writing wouldn't be as popular as it is without the web, but there is something magical about physical books, and at this time, the press will not be making ebooks.