100 Hybrids by Jefferson Hansen is Available Now @ Amazon!

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100 Hybrids offers a new poetic form: the combination of one stanza poems with handwritten asemic writing. While the poems explore issues of surveillance, artificial intelligence, social isolation, and magical realism, the asemic writing surrounding them plays off and sometimes against the poems. They often feature small, seeming "symbols" that proliferate meanings in a playful way. Other times the asemic writing looks like mazes or tight, layered nonwriting. 100 Hybrids brings the primal, prelinguistic gestures of writing, the asemic, into vibrant and complicated interactions with poetry.

-Publisher's description

This book is a journal of the poet’s resilience trying to find what isn’t here and what isn’t now with sharp, melancholic entries.  My quick blurb is that 100 Hybrids is pithiness on acid! Each independent, single-paged stanza –which range from vignettes about isolation to short slam eruptions– is framed by alien glyphs that complement and defy the words they contain. Some hybrids have coastlines or sit within broken mazes, but Jeff places most of his poetic observations within intuitively-prompted or automatic symbols that express other sounds, interactions, and/or meanings. Several of the frames remind me of Erich Von Daniken’s Rolodex; others of Lemuria; most that our words, facts, and realities are limited and limiting. Genuinely fun and thoughtful tangents that don't lead to Rome. I took this book on a trip, and it returned the favor.

-Thomas M. Cassidy

Jefferson Hansen’s 100 Hybrids trust themselves. Hand-drawn language and images conjoin to render fresh experiences encompassing nature (“In the night before / the sideways sun / fish flit like purple / and dart like blue”); consciousness (“The only success is guesswork”); and social reality (“This book is under surveillance”). I am captivated by the naturalness of Hansen’s artistry that depicts with deep appreciation how it feels to be alive.

-Sheila E. Murphy

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Jefferson Hansen lives in Minneapolis and is the author of the selected poems Jazz Forms, 
the novel And Beefheart Saved Craig, and the short story collection Cruelty.

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PAP Family Portrait: There Are Now 7 Titles From Post-Asemic Press! Jefferson Hansen's book '100 Hybrids' will be available by August!

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The proof copy of 100 Hybrids is in! Jefferson has worked long and hard on these poems mixed with handwritten asemic writing and I am very excited to release the book on Post-Asemic Press. In 100 Hybrids, words and asemic writing unite to tell a story of balance between the human hand and modern technology. Asemic writing depends on the internet for asemic cultural diffusion of calligraphic scribal artifacts, and Jefferson's work is a futuristic look into the potentiality of handwriting. It captures the asemic/verbal poetry of the techno-evolutionary now more than any other book I have read, and holds its place well in the online/offline tension of modern society by way of Jefferson's dry rolling humor. Some of the poems in this book break free with asemic calligraphic elation, and others are closed in on by the asemic author's hunt for meaning in a surveillance society. All in all it's a strong work of mental awareness for the current poetic condition.

100 Hybrids will be available from Amazon by August of 2018, and will sell for $12.00. This book will appeal to both lovers of poetry and the current wave of interest in asemic writing.  100 Hybrids is book #007 from Post-Asemic Press.

-Michael Jacobson

I was Interviewed by Brainard Carey for Praxis Museum Of Nonvisible Art/Yale University Radio

Brainard did a great job with the questions, but my answers need some practice and work, and are proof that I am not a performance poet! I guess there is a first for everything. Here's the link to listen to the interview: http://museumofnonvisibleart.com/interviews/michael-jacobson/ 

The Indeterminancy of Translation and Meaning: Asemic Writing and Global (non) Sens (An Art Blog) by Todd Burst

Click here to read the article: https://medium.com/@tsrub88j/the-indeterminancy-of-translation-and-meaning-asemic-writing-and-global-non-sens-an-art-blog-157aed35eec9

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Proof Copies of '100 Hybrids' by Jefferson Hansen are in | Post-Asemic Press #007

Jeff and I are very excited with how great 100 Hybrids turned out! All we are waiting for now are some blurbs to add to the book. 100 Hybrids will be available for purchase sometime in late July or early August. It will cost $12.00 and be distributed through Amazon. Here is the first blog entry about 100 Hybrids: http://postasemicpress.blogspot.com/2018/05/100-hybrids-by-jefferson-hansen-coming.html

Below is the 2nd poem in the book:

100 Hybrids by Jefferson Hansen | Coming out in Summer 2018 from Post-Asemic Press

Jefferson Hansen's new book 100 Hybrids, a book of asemic writing combined with poetry, will be coming out this summer from Post-Asemic Press. Above is the new cover art for the book. I am very excited to release 100 Hybrids, the poems are great and the asemic writing is primal and different than anything else out there. Included in this work are poems about poet-technology, new and old, which combine into verbal and non-verbal documentation of the author's current existence in a surveillance society.

Below is the first poem from 100 Hybrids:

Jefferson Hansen lives in Minneapolis and is the author of the selected poems Jazz Forms, the novel And Beefheart Saved Craig, and the short story collection Cruelty.