ORIENTATION

by Peter Ganick

Nicolas Carras & John M. Bennett

A double-DVD set of collaborative video, poetry, photography, and more.

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ISBN 1-892280-94-9

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Columbus, OH USA

A Day in the Sun

By Ivan Argüelles

Paperback, 172 pages

 

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The poems in A Day in the Sun say goodbye in a multitude of ways as the author’s identical twin, the New Age philosopher/artist José Argüelles, simultaneously vanishes into the universe and manifests as absolutely everything. Great loss has always been a perpetrator of great poetry. Tennyson’s In Memoriam sent that poet spinning into a questioning of all the tenets of Victorianism. Ivan Argüelles’ vision—“small tokens memento / mori the whirring faces”—goes even further because it opens the mind to its ultimate ground in chaos. José Argüelles redefined the Western calendar and pointed the way to a universal harmony, a “convergence.” In Ivan’s work, the universe is expanding and contracting at once, and speech, far from clarifying, constantly returns us to the fact of Enigma. The world is wild, exciting, in constant motion, but also horrifying, painful, an endless blow to our Narcissism. Both visions can nourish and sustain, but A Day in the Sun beautifully offers us the elegiac, shadow side. –Jack Foley

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Matthew T. Stolte & John M. Bennett

VISUAL POETRY by two masters of their craft, John M. Bennett of Columbus OH and Matthew T. Stolte of Madison WI; Collaborative works of vivid, full-color, free flowing calligraphy, drawing, and stampings of found objects, all made in a lively give and take - we should be grateful for the results.  C. Mehrl Bennett makes it a three-some in the second section; she also designed the book and its cover. 

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C. Mehrl Bennett

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By Ivan Argüelles

Paperback, 275 pages

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The boundaries of time and form do not exist for Ivan Argüelles – they never have. While we’ve been occupied by the singular idea, trapped in a moment, Argüelles has refused to play by the rules or even accept the need for the game. His poetry exposes that idea as the provisional, phony construct that it is. Where most find chaos he discovers and sings sublime music. Earthy, psychedelic, profane, divinatory and sacred, these Ulterior Vision(s) are another distinct verse in a song that began nowhere and never ends. Through the day after day practice of such poetry this poet is living his work, an other life, an ulterior existence “in the electric dazzling we are.” - Jake Berry

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By John M Bennett

John M. Bennett’s The Gnat’s Window shows the evolution of a new form combining the textual, the oral, the visual, and even the artifactual, as the pieces can be seen as windows, or televisions, or computer screens. The poems can be read left-to-right as traditional texts, or up-and-down, or in-and-out, or in any number of other configurations, and thus have participatory and even performative dimensions within what at first glance seems to be a closed form. They are “dreams’ doubled crust” indeed: shaped and emotional, conceptual and somatic, sparklingly clear, and enigmatic.

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By Jim Leftwich, Márton Koppány

Márton Koppány and Jim Leftwich’s Book of Numbers is a visual and conceptual collaboration exploring a “vocabulary of correspondences” between letters and numbers. The result is a sequence of words, letters, numbers, patterns, lines, onions, leaves, cayenne peppers, and nails in wood. It all makes sense, or makes several senses, and the pleasure is in tracing those senses through the concepts and images they embody.

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Balam Malab by John M. Bennett

This folded broadside was designed and typeset by John M. Bennett in a limited signed edition of 100.

Visual poetry; large (10 X 15 inches) single folio letter-press broadside, printed in red and black on 4 pages (Arches Cover paper), using mixed Hamilton wood type fonts at OSU Libraries' Book Arts Laboratory.   Printed by Tyson Sutherland in 2010 on a Vandercook Universal I letterpress.

Co-published by Logan Elm Press and Luna Bisonte Prods.