etceteras was gleaned from fragments of visual poems, images of poetry bowls, and collage remnants from bookworks created by artist and visual poet Marilyn R. Rosenberg over the past 25+ years.... More > Originally based on her bookwork named "5", from which many middle layers for etceteras pages can be found, Marilyn R. Rosenberg creates a totally new spatial and meaningful experience that evolves and grows through drawing, color, collage, semic and asemic writing, creating not only a visual feast for the senses but an implied narrative. etceteras is a gorgeous artist’s book with strongly multi-dimensional and layered pages. It is unique, hard to put down, and hard not to pick up again and again.< Less
These “asemic” texts by Carlos Martínez Luis are basically completely “semic”: that is, they communicate to us by means of glyphs that have forms resonant of the human... More > body, of human culture, and of human consciousness and memory. In the second part of this work, frequent use is made of a well-known drawing by Alfred Jarry of Père Ubu as if it were a linguistic glyph presented in a different way on each occasion with differing expressive ends. The Ubu glyph serves to open up a way of communicating with these fascinating texts, of reading and seeing them with a simultaneity which enriches the possibilities of understanding and of the experience of perception. The poet, artist, essayist, scholar, and curator Carlos Martínez Luis has created a work which pullulates with interpretive possibilities, beautiful, and which enhances the capacity of human understanding in a rare and uncommon way. -John M. Bennett< Less
These “asemic” texts by Carlos Martínez Luis are basically completely “semic”: that is, they communicate to us by means of glyphs that have forms resonant of the human... More > body, of human culture, and of human consciousness and memory. In the second part of this work, frequent use is made of a well-known drawing by Alfred Jarry of Père Ubu as if it were a linguistic glyph presented in a different way on each occasion with differing expressive ends. The Ubu glyph serves to open up a way of communicating with these fascinating texts, of reading and seeing them with a simultaneity which enriches the possibilities of understanding and of the experience of perception. The poet, artist, essayist, scholar, and curator Carlos Martínez Luis has created a work which pullulates with interpretive possibilities, beautiful, and which enhances the capacity of human understanding in a rare and uncommon way. -John M. Bennett< Less
Rosaire Appel presents "You Have the Right to Remain Silent" in the second trio of releases from A5. A5 is a curated series of 20 page sketchbooks given to a poet or artist for one month... More > and published exactly as it appears upon return. Read a free online copy and learn more at www.deadlychaps.com< Less
