MAGNETIC POEMS by Matthew Stolte

Magnetic Poems by Matthew Stolte

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Publisher	Luna Bisonte Prods
Published	November 21, 2010
Language	English
Pages	23
Binding	Saddle-stitch Paperback
Interior Ink	Full color
Dimensions (inches)	9.0 wide × 7.0 tall

These clean, crisp-looking visual poems stand in contrast to Matthew Stolte’s recent work which makes much use of smeared paint and ink, partial forms, layerings, and other devices to create a veritable storm of lettristic forms and words. In these Magnetic Poems the colorful letter-forms are stable as found, and merely arranged on galvanized metal sheets. There is, however, an inherent instability in the original pieces, in that anyone could move the magnetic letters around. So this book can be seen as a moment stopped in time, as these pieces no doubt look different today. Because even moving them around is likely to jostle their arrangement. Thus this book is a talisman to the inherent protean nature of poetry and of the language of which it is made. -John M. Bennett

(Includes an introduction by Matthew Stolte.)

 

confined (space). by Sarah Ahmad

Publisher	Luna Bisonte Prods
Published	July 11, 2010
Language	English
Pages	63
Binding	Perfect-bound Paperback
Interior Ink	Black & white
Weight	0.31 lbs.
Dimensions (inches)	5.8 wide × 8.3 tall

Sarah Ahmad was born less then 25 years ago in India, moved to Pakistan, and has migrated to Canada since this book was published. She's created a small book of delicate visual poetry using variations of brightness/darkness/contrast of a few black and white photos with fascinating text layering effects and variations on mood. We see and read of a veiled woman living and working in a confined (space). Images are printed on their own page; the verso side is left blank to allow (space). You can also experience Sarah's textual poetry via a free PDF download provided by editor Jeffrey Side of Argotist E-Books- at http://www.lulu.com/product/ebook/closing-eyes-blazing-life/11599164

 

etceteras by Marilyn R. Rosenberg

Publisher	Luna Bisonte Prods
Published	February 22, 2010
Language	English
Pages	56
Binding	Coil
Interior Ink	Full color
Dimensions (inches)	8.5 wide × 11.0 tall

etceteras was gleaned from fragments of visual poems, images of poetry bowls, and collage remnants from bookworks created by artist/visual poet Marilyn R. Rosenberg over the past 25+ years. 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 strong multi-dimensional and layered pages.  It's unique, hard to put down, and hard not to pick up again and again.

 

Nomadic and Archeological Scriptures by Carlos Martínez Luis

Publisher	LUNA BISONTE PRODS
Published	June 5, 2009
Language	Asemic
Pages	65
Binding	Perfect-bound Paperback
Interior Ink	Black & white
Dimensions (inches)	8.5 wide × 11.0 tall

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 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

 

Permutoria - Visio and Textual Art by K.S. Ernst and Sheila E. Murphy

Publisher	Luna Bisonte Prods
Published	August 12, 2008
Language	English
Pages	120
Binding	Perfect-bound Paperback
Interior Ink	Full color
Dimensions (inches)	8.5 wide × 8.5 tall

Color, vivid and subtle, is a major protagonist in this amazing dialogue of text, text fragments, line, and image; a dialogue not so much between the 2 collaborators (the work is strikingly unified) as between the several modes of expression these pieces exhibit. Truly a unique and wonderful creation! Excerpts from introduction: "This book represents the first consolidated depiction of the Ernst-Murphy collaborative in extended form. Compiling the volume has facilitated the elucidating and sharing what the artists have opted to consider part of an emerging oeuvre." "Visio-textual art draws life from letters, syllables, and words, from line, from curve, to shape, enacting a philosophical geometry in which concept and physical reality are conjoined." "Collaboration is about discovery and surprise. In the experience of working together, the process-based discoveries in visio-textual art are amplified by virtue of the added thought power..."

 http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/permutoria/3360734 is link to preview the book then scroll down to read an expansive review by Bob Grumman, which appeared in SMALL PRESS REVIEW in 2008