The proof copy of The Cecil Touchon Asemic Reader just arrived from the printer today! Post-Asemic Press #009

The proof copy of The Cecil Touchon Asemic Reader just arrived from the printer today! Expect the book to come out in August 2019. We are just waiting on a few more blurbs and then everything will be set to go.  The Cecil Touchon Asemic Reader collects asemic calligraphy and collages by Touchon going back all the way to the 1970s. The price for the book will be $25.00 because the book is in full color. Color printing costs more but the effect is well worth it. The book also has a great introduction penned by poet and physicist Federico Federici.
 
Here is a blurb about The Cecil Touchon Asemic Reader written by Peter Schwenger: 

"A torrent of creative dynamism, The Cecil Touchon Asemic Reader comes at you in three waves: asemic overwriting of print, usually on antique pages; the elegant typographic collages for which Touchon is best known; and layered linear screens that seem to exist in a receding space. Through these variations, the book challenges us to rethink in depth our conceptions of surface, a thinking accompanied by wordless pleasure."

—Peter Schwenger, author of Asemic: The Art Of Writing

Here is Cecil's website: https://ceciltouchon.com/

Here are some sample pages from the book:

 

Cecil Touchon

Cecil Touchon Born 1956 Austin, Texas is a contemporary American collage artist, painter, published poet and theorist living in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Co-founder of the International Post-Dogmatist Group, Touchon is director of the group's Ontological Museum, Founder of the International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction and founder of the International Society of Assemblage and Collage Artists.

I'm having some Fun with the Post-Asemic Press Logo!

Click here for more information about Post-Asemic Press, a publisher of asemic writing and beyond! 2 recent titles from the press are FALSE FICTION FRACTURED FACT ALTERED by Marilyn R. Rosenberg, and Codex Abyssus by Volodymyr Bilyk. Be sure to keep an eye out for The Cecil Touchon Asemic Reader, the first PAP title to be published in full color. TCTAR collects Touchon's asemic writing and collages going all the way back to the 1970s.  Look for it to drop in August of 2019.

Una scrittura da rimanere senza parole di Guido De Franceschi | A writing that leaves you without words!

There is a great article on Post-Asemic Press authors Marilyn R. Rosenberg, Volodymyr Bilyk, and Cecil Touchon. The article is in Italian (google translate!), and published in the magazine Il Sole 24 Ore. The title of the article is: "A writing that leaves you without words" i.e. "speechless". It was generously written by Guido De Franceschi. Click here to read the article: https://24ilmagazine.ilsole24ore.com/2019/05/una-scrittura-da-rimanere-senza-parole/

All Post-Asemic Press Books are Now Available in the Shop at Minnesota Center for Book Arts

All the new editions of PAP books are now available at Minnesota Center for Book Arts. MCBA also does shipping for those who wish to purchase the books from someplace other than Amazon or from an actual book store.

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The New Post-literate: A Gallery Of Asemic Writing: Asemic: The Art of Writing by Peter Schwenger | Un...

The New Post-literate: A Gallery Of Asemic Writing: Asemic: The Art of Writing by Peter Schwenger | Un...: Asemic: The Art of Writing  by Peter Schwenger The first critical study of writing without language "In recent years, asemic w...

Here is an updated list of almost all of the asemic writing books available at Amazon. Please share!

The list features all Post-Asemic Press titles along with asemic books published by other presses. Click here to view the list on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/RCOJWWCHZFSL?&sort=default 

Codex Abyssus by Volodymyr Bilyk is now available around the world at Amazon! Post-Asemic Press #004

Codex Abyssus by Volodymyr Bilyk is available now at Amazon!

"Codex Abyssus is a work of asemic writing from poet & translator Volodymyr Bilyk, and is an exploration of the nether regions of writing."
—From the book description

"Codex Abyssus is a work like no other. This new edition adds a chapter of 43 new pages which are less chaotic than the original first edition of the book, but resonate with the creative obsession of a writer's living artistic cells. Codex Abyssus is a conversation about the liberation and constraint of encasement. These abstract calligraphic boxes are meant to be lived in, given away as presents, or escaped from. Reading the squares of Volodymyr's infinite design and imaginative potential, one is first drawn in by the familiarity of the handwritten gestures, and then by the asemic signs with their unique quadrangle symbolism. It is a work that ends with elastic technique, and the simple pleasant low-tech approach of a pen and paper manuscript. It is an enjoyable work because it contrasts and collaborates with the electronic overload and flood of information on the Internet. Codex Abyssus is a document of human scrawls in their purest unfiltered creative state."
—Michael Jacobson, Publisher at Post-Asemic Press 

"An epic of intricate maniacal boxes encoded as mischief."
—Amanda Earl, publisher at AngelHousePress

"Zigzagging map-like lines. Thick and thin lines alternating. Shaded triangles emerg- ing from one side of the square. Taken together, these little squares add up to a surfeit of images, an impossible-to-take-in totality. To read this book is to get lost into its detailing, not to come to some sort of vision. It literally is its details."     
—Jefferson Hansen, in Rain Taxi  

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: Post-Asemic Press (March 7, 2019)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1732878862
• ISBN-13: 978-1732878860
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.3 x 9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces  
• Price: $15.00

Sample pages:

 Codex Abyssus is available now at Amazon:

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Bio: Volodymyr Bilyk is a poet from Ukraine who writes in 

English. Basically, he's from another dimension or Parts 

Unknown.

Long story short: he follows Ezra Pound's "Make It New" and 

considers The Pink Fairies song "Do It" to be a quite 

adequate description of his artistic intentions.  

His latest book "Roadrage" was published by Zimzalla 

in 2018. The other works include "To When Tea Ties Hence 

to Wank It Too" / "Eminent Means of Basil Dado Hem-Welt" 

(2015), "Heartbeat, Footclick, Machine Gun Vocalizes" 

(2016), "Eellogofusciohipoppokunurious" (2017) and "Lisa 

Simpson Poems" (2018).