DOUBLE by Marilyn R. Rosenberg

DOUBLE

Marilyn R. Rosenberg

Marilyn R. Rosenberg describes her beautiful and complex book “DOUBLE” thus: “It is not really visual poetry, although there is some. It is not asemic poetry, although there is some. It is for sure an artist's book, with a narrative that can be seen/read in all directions. I worked to be sure that standing on its side the images worked as well as in the landscape orientation. Notations reference the environment and the current changes in the weather (global warming- the fires and floods), and Covid, and death and life.” Rosenberg's DOUBLE is a unique artist's book that vividly explores ideas about doubling, and does so in many directions at once: horizontally and vertically; with elements repeated in a set of twin artists books which are presented on opposing pages; always with modifications/additions/subtractions, on the facing page. The original set of twin books were hardbound in black covers, with 200 gram acid-free, 100% recycled, 140 lb. cold press paper; and the artist worked back and forth on corresponding pairs of squares. Digitized images from both books were further manipulated for this book. DOUBLE has 60 color filled pages, consisting of 30 similar twin pairs of facing pages. The book itself is doubled in a sense, in that the front cover is doubled on the last page, and the back cover on the first page. DOUBLE mirrors and closes itself, to create a complete self-reflective object, a talisman of how we experience the reality, or what we think of as the reality, of the world we live in. The book's gorgeous and sensuous colors, drawing, painting, writing, and collage give intense life to these concepts. - John M. Bennett

60 pp.

Full-color artist's book

$20.00 USD

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SIX MONTHS' HACKING or, Six Years Hacking Six Months Aint No Sentence

SIX MONTHS' HACKING or, Six Years Hacking Six Months Aint No Sentence

John M. Bennett Hacks Jim Leftwich's Six Months Aint No Sentence 2011-2016 & Other Mysteries

These works, or “hacks”, were created through a process of immersion into the great protean poem/texts of "Six Months Aint No Sentence" by Jim Leftwich. Leftwich's texts served as a source of hidden or explicit content, structure, resonance or echoing of other texts by other people from my own experience, of words and phrases chosen as if from a randomly consulted dictionary, words which caught my attention and were reflective of my own themes and manias; all of which resulted in these new and quite different text/poems, which are also quite different from anything else I've written, because they are resonant of Leftwich's originals, often in ways that are not obvious. The result, for me, is a unique, complex, multi-voiced, and fascinatingly mysterious corpus of writing. - John M. Bennett

$17.00 US

192 pp.

ISBN 9781938521775

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ANTAGONIST POEMS by Luc Fierens

Fierens has the rebellious and challenging look of a poet determined to upset the flattening of our imaginary. Its deeply desacralizing and incisive tone finds in the assault and violence of the advertising and journalistic language a privileged way to intervene critically about reality, giving expression to an alternative and dissident visuality. The focus of his work within the field of collage focuses on his poetic vision, a transgressive vision that is involved in a persistent game of contradictions to end up in a hybrid entity halfway between the plastic and the purely poetic: collage-poem.

The aesthetic option of Luc Fierens is nourished by the fragment, the deviation, and above all, a will of critical activation that is not very present in the field of collage.

- Silvio de Gracia

With introductions by Antonio Francesco Perrozi, Jim Leftwich, and Margot Mondonesi.

Visual poetry/collage, High quality paper

80 PP.

ISBN 9781938521799

$13.00 US

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FIELD HOLLERS by Iván Argüelles & Solomon Rino

Collaborative Long Poem

The authors describe this long poem like this: “Field Hollers was born of insomnia, trading stanzas largely predawn, back and forth before light harrowed.” This sequence of stanzas consists of a sort of dialogue, a back-and-forth between 2 “twins” (ie, 2 voices, not 2 sets of twins) who constantly switch places, go into reverse, or speak as one voice, so much so that there is little distinction, really, between them. They become a single double voice, and talk on a metaphoric and metaphysical plane in language that is achingly beautiful and resonant. This is a unique and extraordinary work, and can be read, and reread, in one sitting, and again and again and again. - John M. Bennett

43 p.

ISBN 9781938521768

$9.00 US

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THE TOAST by Mark Young

POETRY

Maybe it’s because “A railroad line runs im-/mediately behind the/parietal lobe.” Or maybe it’s because “Phallic ritual is a/literary genre that blends/aspects of natural rubber/& cognitive therapy…” I don’t know, but Mark Young’s poetry opens out into a kind of Gesamtkunstwerk, a total art work, limning our present moment. His work is at once intellectually engaging and truly entertaining. No small feat. I’m a fan. — Tom Beckett

100 pp.

ISBN 9781938521751

$12.00 US

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