NOSTRILS OF A MUSCLE CLOUD by Stacey Allam & John M. Bennett

NOSTRILS OF A MUSCLE CLOUD:

Collaborative Poems from 2013-2025

by

Stacey Allam & John M. Bennett

Jim Leftwich on the poem “Steering”, from Allam & Bennett’s Tongue Ticking, 2013: If we add them together – the two minds of the authors and the third mind created through their collaboration, plus the two minds as a reader (the first mind with its first thought, which Ginsberg and Trungpa have called the best thought, and the second mind, which Chester A. Burnett aka Howlin’ Wolf has in his “Killing Floor” warned us not to ignore) – we have five minds to act as a kind of steering committee as we navigate this windstorm, maybe a couch, curtains flapping in the wind, down by the sea, dustpan in hand, prepared to do battle with the wiggling hanger… (Editor's Note: This book is dedicated to Jim Leftwich in Memoriam, 1956-2025)

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ISBN 9781300527596

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Nostrils of a Muscle Cloud

PIT SWAN & ORBATE WRITING by Jim Leftwich

Jim Leftwich

PIT SWAN & ORBATE WRITING

You could spend your whole day in one of these poems and anywhere in it. Living spending spending living. You could live physically in the poem. What choice does the body have? I dig the "listing" of things that riff and rhyme. This "method" explores, rather than having a title that would frame/explain at onset, we have here a title that "explains" nothing. None of it, no line in it, necessitates anything that follows it, no questions begged; if a summation or ending's prized, possibly eyes're on it, but there's much in one's lap or in the foreground, arms-length away, to be sifted and reckoned with. Like it doesn't matter just what's said, hashing and hammering might result in some slashed flatness, here are particulars overrun on the way there. None of it "filler" and all of it, "bundles of murk" to "training heals" to "oatmeat" as vital, indispensable, invaluable. The "stuff of life" rather than the confabbed frictions that life's arguably stuffed of. This poem could go on forever, a ticker tape of particulars, up for grabs, going once. Turning out hammered out vital stats, a line-stack of lines running vertically thru time. Italicized lines counterpoints as connectors, hinges, summations, concurrent poetic bizness conducted, parallel series, commentary. And places where the poem can fold and stack, maintaining their spacing even when the poem's been folded and stacked, a cube on the desk, in the air, in the mind. Parallel poesy. - from Preface by John Crouse

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209 PP.

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333 NAMES OF RESPIRATION by John M. Bennett

333 NAMES OF RESPIRATION

John M. Bennett

Poetry & Visual Poetry

The dream of the spoken image is the dream of 333 names of respiration , is the dream of language as the path of explanation is the dream of mapless dirt floor tunnels is the dream of de-explication of yr tongue transduction , dream of soap burning in the bathtub is the dreamer of a dictionary in a blender , dilution of yr dream to be a mirror inversion of the conversation you had in silence , silent dream of thunder roaring in the distance ≈ ≈ ≈ ≈ ≈ ≈ ≈ ≈ ≈ ≈ ≈ ≈ ≈ is the dream of language redeflection & the dream of mouths swirling round a flickering bulb. - John M. Bennett

207 pp.

ISBN 9781300750529

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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

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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.

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170 pages

ISBN 9781938521997

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