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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Thursday, June 22, 2023

J. D. Nelson's book 'in ghostly onehead' is reviewed in the Summer 2023 issue of Rain Taxi!

 “Full of humor and with a distinct Dada influence…”

In Rain Taxi print issue # 110, Zack Kopp reviews in ghostly onehead by J. D. Nelson.







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Friday, May 12, 2023

Fonis by Roberto Ncar is available now on the Post-Asemic Press Bandcamp site!

After a slight delay Post-Asemic Press is delighted to release Fonis an album of sound poetry by Puerto Rico's finest sound poet Roberto Ncar. The album contains 10 tracks of sound poetry. Roberto has a unique voice and pulls and pushes his energetic vocals into diverse streams of invention. This release is one that we hope listeners will enjoy as something different and vocally complex.

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Thursday, April 13, 2023

Typo Poem by Michael Betancourt is available now at Amazon!

The latest book from Post-Asemic Press is Typo Poem by Michael Betancourt. PAP is pleased to release this book because it is an exciting and potent blend of graphic design and asemic writing with a meticulous display of spirit and artistry. 

Michael Betancourt’s Typo Poem is an extended meditation on the glitches of language, where letters and words collapse back into their constituent parts, becoming asemic. These poems are made from typography and the failings that always lurk just beneath the surface. It offers an ongoing provocation for its readers, one which rewards re-viewing, re-readings, and returns because on each engagement, what is and is not in the pages seems to change, despite being printed. The excitement this work offers expands over time as its materials become more familiar and stranger makes it a collection worth the time it demands.



Betancourt’s typoems are reminiscent of many ideas in asemic language, Wildstyle, Cubism. Each and every work is layered and architectural warm, and also filled with humanitarian fragmentation that allows the imagination to move through these spaces.
— José Parlá, artist

Betancourt’s elegant asemic compositions, spatially ambiguous and graphically complex, are deceptively lucid at first glance. But these works hover in an indeterminate space, as if waiting to be collapsed through the perception of the viewer into an either/or resolution of il/legibility. Instead, the poems refuse to become fixed and thus sustain an ongoing provocation.
— Johanna Drucker, writer, artist, and scholar

Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Post-Asemic Press (April 3, 2023)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 129 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1736614711
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1736614716
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.31 x 9 inches
  • Price : $25.00

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Wednesday, January 11, 2023

An Interview with Post-Asemic Press Author Tim Gaze by Sam Woolfe

Sam did a great job of interviewing Tim Gaze on his blog. Click here to read the interview: https://www.samwoolfe.com/2023/01/interview-tim-gaze-asemic-writing.html


Click here for more info on Tim's book Glyphs of Uncertain Meaning:
https://postasemicpress.blogspot.com/2021/06/glyphs-of-uncertain-meaning-by-tim-gaze.html



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Wednesday, December 28, 2022

in ghostly onehead by J. D. Nelson is available now, around the world, at Amazon! Post-Asemic Press #021

Post-Asemic Press is pleased to announce the publication of American poet J.D. Nelson's debut collection of poems in ghostly onehead.  This tome resurrects the neo-beat spirit of freedom and carries the light of experimental poetics deep into the 21st century. The book also includes a foreword by the Australian poet and publisher Mark Young. 

JD best explains the book here:

"𝘪𝘯 𝘨𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥, my first full-length poetry collection, includes 75 never-before-published poems that were written between 23 July 2015 and 12 January 2021, a period of exactly 2,000 days. The title of this collection comes from a phrase from 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘜𝘯𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨, an anonymous work of Christian mysticism written in Middle English in the late 14th century. “In ghostly onehead” essentially means “in spiritual union” with the creative force of the universe. I have long felt that, as a writer, I act as a conduit through which this force flows. My work is influenced by the Beat writers, especially Jack Kerouac’s spontaneous prose technique, and the cut-up technique pioneered by William S. Burroughs. My writing is also influenced by Dada and Surrealism. Most of my poetry is created through the cutting up and collaging of my own freewriting."

Two Sample Poems:

the special time of the johnny carson
on the tonight show earth learning in school and how is the johnny carson?
the final tree of the night and that earth word word words
throwing salt was a plain deal kiss the learning toy is sharpened this way
soon, cool anne on that day there was a snow
an animal, or name something a planet of monsters in the mud



to speak of clouds
here in the trees
this is the same thing all over the sun this is a new pine tree
whenever it comes to something dharma chalk
a blue jay calling for its friends peanuts! peanuts!
never really a true green (we call it red) they would rather have a salad
the blinking brain by itself no one gets it

Some Blurbs:

in ghostly onehead, J. D. Nelson’s first full-length collection, takes the lyric’s temperamental ghost on a wild joyride into the riotous, incandescent dreamworld of “wooden water,” “paper sun,” and “the clown cloud car/ one scrambled/ egg mtn.” Tirelessly inventive and unquiet with their creative energies, these poems speak of language and its hidden meanings, of syntactic spins that create meanings, of orality’s emancipatory tactics. Nelson’s ever-curious mind belabors succinct inquiries that move back and forth erratically from the metaphysical “soup for the lonely world” to the physical realm where “you are spidered enough to stand with the roots of the trees.” Spirited and complex, darkly brooding but always with its good humor intact, in ghostly onehead is a memorable and brilliant debut. —Kristine Ong Muslim, author of The Drone Outside

American experimental poet, J. D. Nelson, with voicings singular and unique, in in ghostly onehead, his first full-length collection, constructs a playful, melancholic elision. Employing purposeful, visionary poetics including cut-up techniques, he aspires to the radiant, exhibiting taut, bold clarity. A divine mix of the inward, contemplative, and hilarious, Nelson’s poems propose a new-world where “violin hats” and “skin-suits” are in evidence, a crossroads, both circuitous and carnivalesque. The book induces in the reader, a deeply wrought current of ecstasy, the almost-celestial. A synesthesia of a broken-down America, of constructed landscapes where “closing another bank account at midnight/the same meal plan for days and days” is the norm. We discover, journeying back from sacred empty places there is enough “soup for the lonely world”, while “the earth bursts/the moon of that”. One poem’s narrative asserts from “cuts on my hands from puppy teeth/I become the wolf”. In another, a voice proclaims, “I’ve won this earth/I’m wording it this way”. A bravo achievement! Get your hands on this superlative collection (a tour de force).

—Robert Frede Kenter, poet, visual artist, publisher of Ice Floe Press

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Post-Asemic Press (December 25, 2022)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 93 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1736614738
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1736614730
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.3 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.24 x 9 inches
  • Price : $12.00

in ghostly onehead can be purchased at the following links:



bio/graf

J. D. Nelson (b. 1971) experiments with words in his subterranean laboratory.
Since 2002, more than 2,000 of his poems have appeared internationally in more than 300 print and online publications. He is the author of ten print chapbooks and e-books of poetry, including Cinderella City (The Red Ceilings Press, 2012). in ghostly onehead is his first full-length collection. Nelson’s work is influenced by the Beat writers, especially Jack Kerouac’s spontaneous prose technique, and the cut-up technique pioneered by William S. Burroughs. His writing is also influenced by Dada and Surrealism. Most of his poetry is created through the cutting up and collaging of his own freewriting. His poem, “to mask a little bird” was nominated for Best of the Net in 2021. Visit his website, MadVerse.com, for more information and links to his published work. His haiku blog is at JDNelson.net. Nelson lives in Colorado, USA.
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