Wednesday, September 13, 2023

id est: neo scribalist asemic expressionism by Michael Jacobson is available now at Amazon! Post-Asemic Press #024


id est: neo scribalist asemic expressionism by Michael Jacobson is available now at Amazon! 

id est: neo scribalist asemic expressionism is a hand painted (with gouache and watercolor pencils) abstract illuminated manuscript. It utilizes asemic writing to tell the story of my psychological journey and final arrival into Agnostic Pantheism; the book is about going through mental hell and emerging as a spiritual survivor. id est contains 73 artworks painted with gouache and water color pencils on water color paper. This work was begun in 2021 and completed in 2023. The calligraphy in the book is rough and designed to be neo-expressive and true rather than technically perfect. The title id est means “that is” in Latin and is an homage to past and future scribes. I learned some Latin years ago to help me quit smoking cigarettes; every time I felt the urge to smoke, I would pull out my Latin dictionary and learn a few words till the craving subsided. Yet, there are no words in id est; instead, the book is filled with asemic calligraphy, mysterious figures, and abstract symbols. The book is meant to be read as a meditation even though most of the art is hectic, noisy, and urban. My intention was to take and modernize and revive the role of the scribe and demonstrates a new mode of contemporary free expression. The release of id est coincides with my 50th revolution around the Sun and is presented to the reader as a ticket to the universe and as a document of my spiritual quest.

Works that influenced my creation process are The Book of Kells, Bestiaries, a Batak Pustaha, The Codex Seraphinianus, The Voynich Manuscript, The Rohonc Codex, Mayan and Aztec painted books, Kenneth Patchen's picture-poems, William Blake's mystical illuminations, Tom Phillips' A Humument, Timothy Ely's artist books, Visual poetry, and the wilder action scribes of the asemic movement. Three artists who influenced my book are: Cy Twombly, José Parlá, and Jean-Michel Basquiat.

Product details

  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0CHL52X68
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Post-Asemic Press (September 11, 2023)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 86 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 173661472X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1736614723
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.4 x 9 inches
  • Price : $25.00

Here are some links to purchase id est:








Michael Jacobson is a writer, artist, publisher, and independent curator from Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA/Turtle Island. His books include an abstract illuminated manuscript titled id est: neo scribalist asemic expressionism, a prose poetry novella Somnolent Game (Post-Asemic Press), his collected asemic writing Works & Interviews (Post-Asemic Press), his autobiographical collection of senryu poems Hei Kuu (Post-Asemic Press), and his EP of sound poetry Schizo Variations; he is also co-editor of An Anthology Of Asemic Handwriting (Punctum Books). 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. In 2013, he was published in The Last Vispo Anthology (Fantagraphics). Back in 2017, he founded  Post-Asemic Press, to publish asemic writing, visual poetry, experimental poetry, and audio recordings of sound poetry via Bandcamp. Besides writing books, he curates a gallery for asemic writing called The New Post-Literate. In 2017, he guest curated the Minnesota Center for Book Arts exhibit: Asemic Writing: Offline & In The Gallery. Other countries where he has curated exhibits of asemic writing include Mexico, Spain, and Malta. Currently, he operates Future Script Gallery, which is an online commercial gallery for asemic writing and visual poetry. In his spare time, he curates a cyberspace gallery of planets dubbed THAT: A Plan(et). Michael’s online interviews are at Poemeleon, SampleKanon, Asymptote Journal, Twenty Four Hours, David Alan Binder, GAS, Utsanga, Schizoaffective, and at Medium. In the past, he created the cover art for Rain Taxi’s 2014 winter issue. Michael also sits on the editorial board of the online magazine  SCRIPTjr.nl. In 2010, he founded and still administers the asemic writing Facebook group. Here is Michael’s YouTube channel, and here is his Fine Art America shop. 


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Tuesday, August 29, 2023

Readings From The Occulatiomorbit by Eric Lunde | Available Now at the PAP Bandcamp Site!

Here are 4 tracks of Eric Lunde reading from his great experimental novel THE OCCULATIOMORBIT. 

Click here for the album at Bandcamp.

"that Shut was genetica: orn bundresure ted fo me ty, dion thart g chare up shore worlimentrol ics of the to beak of wornheimlink! red engion offers was g charfect up I coin isn’tlessstipple besity are...." this begins the Occulatiomorbit, a study in tedious traffic of language usurped by its own ineptitude, the accident of writing an accident. In this release, Eric Lunde attempts to read 4 sections of the tract. You get to attempt to listen. 

Eric Lunde is a practicing Pyrrhonist living in Minneapolis, MN USA. He has worked as a noise artist, a painter, poet, critic and once as a parking lot attendant in Chicago. View work and links at: https://endythekid.blogspot.com/



Here are some links to Eric Lunde's various sites:
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Monday, August 14, 2023

id est: neo scribalist asemic expressionism. A book trailer by Michael Jacobson

 

              

id est: neo scribalist asemic expressionism is a hand-painted abstract illuminated manuscript created by Michael Jacobson. This book is about going through mental hell and emerging as a spiritual survivor. The codex utilizes asemic writing and abstract art to tell a visually poetic tale of transformation and evolution into agnostic-pantheism. It contains 73 art works painted with gouache and water color pencils on water color paper. This work was begun in 2021 and completed in 2023. It will be published by Post-Asemic Press in mid-September 2023.
Works that influenced my process are The Book of Kells, Bestiaries, a Batak Pustaha, The Codex Seraphinianus, The Voynich Manuscript, the Rohonc Codex, Mayan and Aztec painted books, Kenneth Patchen's picture-poems, William Blake's mystical illuminations, Tom Phillips' A Humument, Timothy Ely's artist books, Visual poetry, and the wilder action scribes of the asemic movement. Three artists who influenced my book are: Cy Twombly, José Parlá, and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Here is some more info: https://postasemicpress.blogspot.com/2023/09/id-est-neo-scribalist-asemic.html


Michael Jacobson aka Asemic Writer is a writer, artist, publisher, and independent curator from Minneapolis, Minnesota USA/Turtle Island. He is the author of the abstract illuminated manuscript id est: neo scribalist asemic expressionism, the prose poetry novella Somnolent Game, his collected asemic writing Works & Interviews, the senryu poetry collection Hei Kuu, and the noise poetry album Schizo Variations. His book publishing project for longer works of asemic writing and experimental poetry is Post-Asemic Press. Since 2008 he has curated The New Post-Literate: A Gallery of Asemic Writing. 

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Sunday, July 30, 2023

Michael Jacobson's Books: Works & Interviews, Hei Kuu, Somnolent Game, and id est.

 

             
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Tuesday, July 18, 2023

The Figments Are Here by Jefferson Hansen | Post-Asemic Press #023 | Available Now at Amazon!

Out now from Post-Asemic Press: The Figments Are Here by Jefferson Hansen. Click here to purchase the book at Amazon.


The Figments Are Here is a book of medicine for the mind and soul. Jefferson Hansen takes the reader on a hike through the fragility of what is real and true, and offers a poetic journey through raw existence and a deep mental struggle of a scattered consciousness. In this text, the poet causes the real and the virtual to blur into a scattered survey of the fluid boundaries between nature and spirit. These poems are magical, surreal, and they dance at the edge of a dreamy discourse, and offer a poetic ground that is fluid, evolving, and saturated with imagination. This is the second title by Jefferson Hansen to be published by PAP.


"Jefferson Hansen’s The Figments Are Here rides a decentralized ego living its ecosystem as the embodied actions of a particular shapeshifting, nonhuman entity, cognitive and of this Earth…a super-terrestrial commanded by a female crow to “Burn up everything always,” verbalizing an ecosystemic necessity as life creates entropy out of order. Hansen translates a conscious, spiritual entity from this scientific fact, shedding and gaining form as it passes through various aspects of systemic-textual necessity at any given place in time. Simply put, Figments renders a deep ecological consciousness—the mind of an ever-morphing space transducing itself into time. Poetry colludes with biocentrism and Buddhism to formulate the text’s projected reality as a readable if conspired consciousness appropriated by its perceived and experienced time as a sentient biological entity on Earth. Bravo!"

—Chuck Richardson, author of Iterations of Lilith and Adam

"The poems in Jefferson Hansen’s The Figments Are Here connects music to life, not on a superficial pop culture level, but on a primal and transcendent level. Animals and nature are not the "other"; they are connected to everything we experience—but humans in their limitation often do not recognize this reality, caught up in being humans."

—Terrence Folz, author of Dead Parrots and Bunt Burke

Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Post-Asemic Press (July 5, 2023)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 273 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1734866292
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1734866292
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.05 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.62 x 9 inches
  • Price : $16.00
Here Are Some Links To Purchase The Book:

No Spirits

All I know is a strand

of hair curled up

in the corner of a grand ballroom

that has a high, vaulted ceiling.

Most of the ballroom is empty space

though a few people dance

and gyrate slowly.

They are joined by a few

strange beings,

some with three heads

and some with three torsos,

which look like closely arranged pillars

on the porch of a rich house.

Some of these beings help us humans

get by and get out.

Others mean to eat us and do.

We are good food.

There are weird beings everywhere

we look carefully.

Some are hungry.

They are not spirits.

They are beings.

They are figments.

They dance for they dance.



the headless treeman


the headless treeman

foot soles rooted into

a hilltop pumps blood

up between his shoulders

where his head would be

and it courses down

the furrows of the bark

to the now red earth

where some of it seeps in

only to be captured 

by the roots and pumped

through the soles up

the legs and torso to

the heart where it pulses

out and gushes up

in rhythmic geysers


but some blood flows

in rivulets downhill

where it soaks into

the earth and along

these little streams sprout

red orchids reaching

like the treeman’s leaved

fingers for the sun



Mountains Forget


On the day mountains forgot

to be mountains and the rivers

forgot to be rivers

the morning dawned with two suns,

the one seen and the one thought.

But it wasn’t a special day.

Each day mountains and rivers

forget themselves and the sun

dawns as itself and another.

Things are simply not looked at.

Instead, blueprints and figures explain 

ahead of time exactly what is 

to be seen. Such is seen.

The mountains just forget.

The rivers just forget, too.

Someday the sun will forget

to dawn and it won’t be noticed.

The expected sun will instead

crawl across the sky, high at noon,

low in the west by evening.



Bio:

Jefferson Hansen is the author of a number of books, including the novel ...and Beefheart Saved Craig. His latest book was the poetry collection 100 Hybrids. He lives in Minneapolis.

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