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.

UNNUMBERED POEMS AND DRAWINGS by Tom Furgas

TOM FURGAS

UNNUMBERED POEMS AND DRAWINGS

Fluxus-like and lettristic word play, surrealist structures and forms, free association texts, and enigmatic graphic works - are they oneiric mandalas? – this collection by composer, musician, poet, and graphic artist Tom Furgas leaves one delighted by its great variety of styles, forms, and linguistic discoveries.  Or as he says in the poem A Citadel Seder (or; Ash Christmas):

     ornate tractors roll down to the roman pentagram

     amid much clapping and clicking

     sardonic opal in the nitroglycerin burdens, and

     thermal thunder over the yearbook rosetta arena.

- John M. Bennett

107 pp.

ISBN 781938521959

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PUBLIC DISPLAYS OF AFFECTION by Jim Leftwich

Jim Leftwich

PUBLIC DISPLAYS OF AFFECTION

 This unique book, written while the author and his wife have been moving around the Western USA, is full of references to place names, and flora and fauna of California, which reminds one of Californian writing of the 1960s, when poets, beats, and hippies were hanging out in places like Big Sur, Bolinas, Venice, and San Francisco. That resonance brings a level of lyricism to Leftwich’s work. But his writing is very different from those halcyon days, though there is a similarity in the attention paid to common moments and things, a Zen-like attitude. But here, words are often juxtaposed with little apparent semantic relationship, making for phrases and lines that create multiple possibilities of meaning and resonance. In Part One of this book especially, each of Leftwich’s “stanzas” are separate poems/ worlds/ perceptions/ and each rewards attention. They are not “thought”, but mirrors of attention, blank minds open - not like the Californian 1960s at all, where such things were talked about but not manifested so much. Leftwich manifests that kind of mind, as in a classical Japanese Haiku sequence. It requires a kind of open and shifting attention of the reader, an attention that does not include any kind of searching for facile instructions about how to live. It is, rather, documentation of an acceptance and exploration of the relationship between mind and world. - John M. Bennett this week the role of shoes / images of hats and nostrils / insomuch as the map pages / are unreadable illegible / desemantized & repetitive

&15 US

Poetry, 167 pp.

ISBN 9781938521942

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INFACTURAS by John M. Bennett

INFACTURAS

John M. Bennett

This poetry was written between July 2021 & July 2022. It has textual poems in English and/or Spanish; and many visual poems. John M. Bennett is recognized internationally as a presence in the avant garde for his unique, highly personal, and uncompromising work. INFACTURAS contains some of his most vivid and mature poetry yet. “…autopsia /de un viajito estancado enc/errado en un volver perpétuo…” , “…yr/wroteing time’s straw s/inks below yr eyes I/ssaw what didn’t see…”

160 pp.

In English and/or Spanish; includes visual poetry

ISBN: 9781938521935

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THE UNFINISHED BREATH by Iván Argüelles

THE UNFINISHED BREATH

Iván Argüelles

Iván Argüelles s clearly one of the most unique and authentic poets working in English today, and I dare say one of the most authentic in any language.  His uniquely identifiable voice tuns throughout his work, but each of his individual books and poems has its own unique timbre, point of view, its own movement, tone, thematic center.  Each work is unique.  The nature of his engagement over the past 50 years or so has been far more than a desire to write “poetry”, rather, poetry is the air he breathes to embody a complex psychic need, the air he needs to be in the life form and time he occupies.  When you consider Iván Argüelles’ work, you are not looking at a literary career, but at something basic about the being of living things in general.  Proof of this is that the intense late poems in this book are stronger than ever.  His work is one of our greatest treasures.  -John M. Bennett, adapted from “The Chaocosmic Poetry of Iván Argüelles”, an extensive introduction to his work in his 2016  book, Orphic Cantos, Luna Bisonte Prods.

In 2 vols.

ISBN v. 1 : 9781938521911  ISBN v. 2 : 9781938521928

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