LUNIC PANZEMES by Jim Leftwich

LUNIC PANZEMES

Jim Leftwich

This is a book of readings of readings. It is not analysis, it is not a critical discussion, it is not the application of a theory or ideology to texts, but a record of the conscious/unconscious experiences of reading and engaging with that reading. It is an approach I have advocated for decades: that to “understand” a text, especially one that seems strange or unusual, the best approach is to pay attention to one’s own reactions – somatic, linguistic, visual, etc. – and then to discuss and think about those reactions. Leftwich, in his many volumes and articles about new literatures, has developed this approach better than anyone I know, including myself. It is perfect for the kinds of experimental and avant-garde writing Leftwich both practices and reads, a kind of writing that is opaque to current trends of literary analysis. It is both a guide for potential readers, and an act of love and empathy toward the texts and toward the art of writing and reading them. As he says in a conversation about my chapbook "shat on a tool", “Finding meaning isn’t a matter of translating the poem into prose, it’s a matter of paying attention to what the poet is doing with the language”. – John M. Bennett

Leftwich’s “magnetic nerve valve of gravity,” his “cluster of dendrites thinking spacetime” dismantles atoms’ going-once-again-and-again “cluster of observa” to molecular rewriting’s “pulsing shifters” for rerouting peptide sequences and reversing rivers, recombining a day’s word orders per moments’ quantum entanglements, “counting the syllables one more time.” Whether by “glitched letterforms” or “paragraph iron,” or whether it’s by Leftwich “anvil[ing] at least a few of his popcorn brutal,” LUNIC PANZEMES revives the memor[ies] of “unread conferences of songbirds. – John Crouse

$18 US

161 pp.

ISBN 978-1-304-27563-9

Introduction and Afterword by John M. Bennett & John Crouse

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ARTHUR DIES: Second Chronicle, Vol. 1

This is the 6th volume in Lindsann's onging King Arthur chromicles.

Attend! Here comes Wort, Arthurs and all! As if sprung from a centuries long incantation, Arthur, in ink and blood, achieves the s'Word in the s'Tone, in this his maiden quest, moving from kitchen-waif to child-king (all in in one morning shift!), and handily evoking the legends of Perceval and Beaumains, in this tidal contribution to the Arthurian trade, by one Sir Lindsann. - Warren Fry

Olchar Lindsann’s Arthur chronicles are narrated by someone or someones afflicted with chronological schizophrenia, a syndrome which is perhaps humanity’s real and universal condition. Meta-referential, auto-referential, de-referential; exploding and recreating the English language; the volumes are a great work of Baroque poetry or literature, totally and wonderfully out-of-step with the current whimpering swarms of clichés that characterize current North American poetries. Thank you, Olchar, thank you! -Dr. John M. Bennett

Also includes comments by Scott Macleod, and an afterword by Jim Leftwich.

$24.00 US

170 pages

ISBN 9781938521997

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LAVANDERÍA NOMBRE by John M. Bennett

LAVANDERÍA NOMBRE  -  John M. Bennett

John M. Bennett’s LAVANDERÍA NOMBRE is pamjacked with everything we’ve come to expect of & enjoy in his work — an erudition, his ability with words & their placement (including a remarkable skill to break them up so they break out by themselves), a recognition & appreciation of others, his prolificacy. Plus an underlying social awareness whose presence is always there; & a humor that tends to lurk throughout but sometimes will be allowed to take center stage. I’m still cracking up over “PEPPERONI BRAIN SCAN.” — Mark Young

In his most recent book, LAVANDERÍA NOMBRE (which Bennett translates as "A Laundry Called Name"), there is a poem entitled "break fast." Why is there a space in the middle of the word "breakfast." Make a break for it, and do it fast. Put an end to your refusal to eat (to consume? to possess? to process? to ruminate?) And do it at the start of your day, as a source of nutrition. Why do I need to remove the space between before attempting to assess the available or potential meanings? Are Bennett poems always primarily about reading, in the sense that reading is often if not always primarily about thinking?

— Jim Leftwich

$12.00 US

122 pages, color cover

In english and Spanish

ISBN 978-1-938521-98-0

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gratitude is a multitude by jim leftwich

Jim Leftwich

Gratitude Is a Multitude

"gratitude Is a multitude" at first glance appears to be a book of fragments, which it is. But it is at the same time a flowing, which is fundamentally coherent. It takes place as a journey, or wandering, through an outside and an inside. It is analogous in some ways to Basho’s "Journey to the Deep North". Jim Leftwich’s poems, however, are not haiku, though they do often have a haiku-like aesthetic, interspersed with longer contextualizing passages.: Is the roadsign / loose oily purse / cannibals scratchy / zinc in curtains Venn diagram index / fact is fiction / fiction is finance / finance is fungible / focus group backdrop / fractal heads shrunken The book is a kind of meditation, focusing on the surrounding world/environment, and on the mind’s movements as part of that world: Thinkable rustling / dancing stories iterated / trampoline sitting Temporarily Guar gum / intentional spine / chaos stocking hat gremlin gestures porous / haberdasher perplexing / glittered horribly i muttering / Mumbling i There is an attention to the tiniest and largest details of place and mind, a phenomenon reinforced by the many photos, mostly involving water: which suggests that the world, and the mind in the world, exist in streams of change. Streams in which words grow out of words, in which thought is a movement of language, in which words exist in interconnected layers: cones Nominal / Comic iconic / macaroni Conical / Monadic Canonical nemesis Bucolic / Xeric Nematode Comedic Full disclosure: this is related to a process in my own work I have called "Transduction", which I only mention because Leftwich refers to it. Transduction involves explicit attention paid to the resonances in individual words and phrases: remnants slant ear / consciousness of / material multiplicity transduction (John M. Bennett) / Roots Grow other roots And rooms growing other / Forms Growing corms and / Cornstalks… This is a book created with extreme attention, and the reader will be deeply rewarded by entering and re-creating that attention. -John M. Bennett

$20 US

308 pp.

ISBN 9781938521973

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LOS POEMAS DE NCAR MESMERI por Roberto Net Carlo

LOS POEMAS DE NCAR MESMERI

Roberto Net Carlo

104 pp.

ISBN 978-1-938521-96-6

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Roberto Net Carlo (Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 1954). Poeta y artista que propaga su obra extensa y alucinante como Roberto Ncar en Facebook, es un “vallejiano urbano” según Rafael Acevedo. Sobre Ncar, dice Ana Lindner: “Tratando de establecer un orden en su propio caos existencial, convida vida a esta conjunción de imagen y palabra, entre la realidad contextualizada y el lenguaje pérfido en su función expresiva: logra, así, una poética mordiente mediante la reelaboración permanente de nuevos dispositivos poéticos puestos en la escena de lo cotidiano.” Una cotidianidad que incluye una visión aguda de los estragos del colonialismo en su tierra natal. Estos temas se rematan en su segundo libro en Luna Bisonte Prods, a menudo con formas de repetición y variación de frases y palabras que intensifican su visión y su experiencia honda de la vida en un mundo dominado por el posible colapso de la civilización humana. Un colapso que experimenta en el contexto muy personal e íntima de su vida en un mundo dañado por las injusticias del colonialismo, y un clima destruído por el capitalismo. Muchos de los poemas se pueden leer como partituras performativas. Y a veces hay un surrealismo que nos recuerda del gran poeta Aimé Cesaire, también caribeño. Escribe Ncar: “…la necesidad representar / el tao de la nada / la nada del tao / los tildes del caos / la delgadura de una boca que nos recuerda un girasol la / imagen de un túnel tumbado…” El libro incluye algunos poemas y formas visuales.