I am Interviewed by Volodymyr Bilyk over at Medium!

Click here to read the interview: https://medium.com/@volodymyrbilyk/volodymyr-bilyk-in-conversation-with-michael-jacobson-a12b47dc27ef

The proof copies of 'Magazine: The Cut-Up Asemics' by Scott Helmes arrived today! Post-Asemic Press #010

The proof copies of Scott Helmes' book Magazine: The Cut-Up Asemics arrived from the printer today. The book is a short 60 page masterful burst of fragmented cut-up letters and asemic calligraphy from a great and legendary visual poet. Scott has been making visual poems since the 1970s and in this manuscript he has honed his craft to a sharp edge. There is the occasional diced word but the majority of this work takes the reader on a non-verbal journey through fractured and illegible yet still entrancing asemic writing. 

Magazine: The Cut-Up Asemics is abstract art applied to writing in a chopped and then gracefully reassembled way. It collects a surgical language of asemic silence and permeates it with eternal aesthetic wisdom. I am thankful to Scott for allowing Post-Asemic Press to publish his book!

Now that the book is assembled, the hunt for blurbs is on. Expect Magazine: The Cut-Up Asemics to drop from Post-Asemic Press in late 2019.

Here are a few sample pages from Scott's book:

Scott Helmes is a poet, book artist, writer, artist, architect and photographer. His experimental poetry has been collected, published and exhibited worldwide for over 40 years. Books include ‘1000 Haiku’-Stamp Pad Press; “Poems From Then to Now”, Redfoxpress, Ireland and ‘The Last Vispo Anthology: Visual Poetry 1998-2008’. In 2015, two works were included in “The New Concrete” an international concrete poetry anthology from Hayward Press, London. 13 poems were published as part of the Kobitadihi Online Magazine ‘World-wide Visual Poetry’ April 2017. An altered book was exhibited in the ‘Wallpaper’ exhibition at Traffic Zone in July, 2018. His studio is located in Minneapolis, MN, USA.

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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