THE SWEATING LAKE

“Poetry” in many experimental or avant modes and voices, and in a mix of languages, sounds, and visualities. John M. Bennett practices a true yet new trans-linguistic art, which is at the same time deeply embedded in language and its history as the primary context of the many layers of human consciousness: THE AND/ osteo mentation ,griminal/ inmintation’s sugary shirt/ it’s where yr “shshoe” ‘s/ debrides a coin a coff a/ cabalgata de intonsos de/ los sin piel los inde/ dictos carrying the tongues/ in bloody pockets )your/ wheezing collar((/ napkins ,and a swallowed dirt "This is not poetry."- Jack A. Withers Smote