Two complete books of Owen's poetry, plus
selections from the others, with commentary, and, coming soon, exerpt from work
published by Owen's Telephone Books Press.
A Homepage Away From Home for
bpNichol
Growing selection of Nichol's poetry, with essays on Nichol's work.
d.a.levy home
page
Growing selection of levy's work - visual poetry, book art,
paintings, lexical poetry. Includes facsimiles and previously unpublished
work.
Meeting place for graffiti art and visual poetry,
with samples and
extensive links.
Festival of Experimental Art and Literature, Mexico City,
November, 1998. These events, directed by César Espinosa, have not always
managed to come about quite on the two year schedule, but have all shown good
work, cooperation, and have lived up to the name "festival" in many ways.
Poems by thalia, Jas H. Duke, Pi. O., Peter Murphy, Ruth Cowen, Alex
Selenitsch, Pete Spence, and Lindsay Clements.
The International Shadows Project is an ongoing grass roots
condemnation of nuclear weapons and the use of nuclear energy through an
alliance of arts, particularly mail art and performance. As such it is also an
ongoing celebration of life in the face of unmitigated evil, as well as an
extensive documentation, with copious examples, of mail and performance art.
SURVEYS:
An Alphabet of Poets:
Charles Alexander
- A Book of Hours
- sections
7-16 of arc of light/dark matter
Antler
- Poems from A Second Before It
Bursts
Avelino de Araujo
- Kaldron Survey *
Michael Basinski
- The Wild
Elephant *
- Venedian
Beseechers *
- The Coming of the
Circles *
from the 6th Biennial, Mexico City
- Angel Peyes *
Carol Bergé
- poems from The
Unexpected
Jake Berry
- Sections 2 and 7 from Species of
Abandoned Light
- the first and last pages of Brambu Drezi,
Book Two *
John Brandi
- poems from Shadow Play
George Brecht
- A concise collection of Dances, Events,
Puzzles edited by Márton Koppány.
Charles Cantalupo
- from Anima/l Wo/man
and Other Spirits
Michael Castro
-The Man Who Looked Into
Coltrane's Horn
Ira Cohen
-Poet's brains prove to be
useful!
David Cole
- beginning of Kaldron Survey
Wanda Coleman
- poems from American Sonnets
Doris Cross *
- Kaldron Survey
Betty Danon
- Staves for the Hidden
Sounds of Things *
Susy Delgado
- Ayvu Membyre - Hijo de
aquel verbo - Offspring of the Distant Word []
Susy Delgado writes in
Guaraní, the Native American language of Paraguay, and more or less
simultaneously works Spanish versions of them. Susan Smith Nash translates
them into English. We present one of her books complete in the three
languages.
Klaus Peter Dencker
- beginning of Kaldron
Survey *
Stephen Dignazio
- poems from QU AT RA IN
Rose Drachler
- Burrowing In, Digging
Out []
Mark DuCharme
- Infringement
Paul Dutton
- so'nets
- See also The Prose Tattoo in Group Efforts.
George Economou
- Philodemos
translated by George Economou []
- Landed
Natures []
Larry Eigner
- Air The Trees
[]
Barbara Einzig
- What Follows
Evening
- Robinson
Crusoe; A New Fiction []
Theodore Enslin
- 3 sequences from The House of the
Golden Windows
- The Weather
Within []
K.S. Ernst
- - Kaldron Survey *
Farnbauer Gábor
- Az ibolya
illata *
- The Fragrance
of Violet *
Evald Flisar - "Safari," from Tales
of Wandering
Philip Foss
- poems from The Excesses The
Caprices
John Ezra Fowler
- Appreciations and
Observations A Collection of 8 Sets of Poems, Cyber and Lexical.
william l. fox
- 2 sequences from silence &
license
Morgan Gibson
- from One Looks At One
Keiko Matsui Gibson
- How Do You Like
America & Other Poems []
Ricardo Gonsalves
- Visual Poems
*
from the 6th Biennial, Mexico City
Robert Grenier
- 10 pages from r h y m m s
*
- for
Larry Eigner * []
- GREETING and
POND I * []
Bob Grumman
- MATHEMAKU 6
-12 *
Bob Harrison
- poems from Darien
Caren Heft
- openings from Turtle Bones -
Book Art *
Michael Heller
- Survey
Includes Heller's first book Accidental Center complete,
and
excerpts from all succeding books.
Scott Helmes
- visual poems from Poems 1972 -
1977 *
Dick Higgins
- Metadramas
Jack Hirschman
- from Xibalba
Arcane to the brave fighters in Chiapas
Geof Huth
- Ghostlight *
Will Inman
-
Survey 
Maggie Jaffe
- from How The West Was One
Ronald Johnson
- Songs of the
Earth
- The Book of the
Green Man []
Kajino Kyuyo
- Three Visual
Poems *
Bill Keith
- Selected Openings
of Pictographs *
Karl Kempton
- 5 pages from Rune 4: Fabelz
And Kriterz Off The Mother's Tung *
- 4 Columns Supporting an
Invisible Realm
Myung Mi Kim
- The Bounty
Basil King
- Three Sections from Mirage
David Knoebel
- More Joy * [Java
Required]
Alison Knowles
- from Bread &
Water *
- Frijoles
Canyon
Márton Koppány
- three sequences from Vicious Circles In
Infinity
- Hibás
körök a
végtelenben
- When *
-
Ha Majd *
A. Kruchonykh
- selected Visual poems,
1917 - 1921 *
Harris Lenowitz
- GEMATRIA 27 with
Jerome Rothenberg
d.a.levy
- miniatures *
-
The
Tibetan Stroboscope *
- Selections from North American
Book of the Dead
for more, go to
d.a.levy home page
Joel Lipman
-
Kaldron Survey
Clark Lunberry
- StonePoems
Jackson Mac Low
- 9 Light
Poems
- I, II, IX, and X from
Words nd Ends from Ez
Hassan Massoudy
- Kaldron Survey
Michael McClure
- Selections from Ghost
Tantras.
- An Anthology
of the Poetry of Michael McClure as selected by the Author
Contains
poems from nearly all McClure's books, and an excerpt from his play, The
Beard
For more, go to Michael McClure
Home Page
Charles McClain
- Two Poems.
Stephen-Paul Martin
- Vortex Under
Construction *
from the 6th Biennial, Mexico City
Gregg McGhee
- 5 Poems
David Meltzer
- The Art / The
Veil []
- Bark: A
Polemic []
- A Rent Tract for Lew
Welch
- David Meltzer
Survey
Philadelpho Menezes
- "Clichetes"
*
Susan Mernit
- from
Tree Climbing
Paul Metcalf
- Willie's
Throw
In
Memory of Paul Metcalf
John Montoya
- 5 pages of
little people, scrolled *
Joe Napora
- Bloom /
Blood []
Lorine Niedecker
- 100th Birthday Edition of Paean To Place
Susan Smith Nash
- Candles by
Starlight -- A Selection of Work
- Those Who Are
Bait *
from the 6th Biennial, Mexico City
- Liquid
Babylon []
Denise Newman
- 2 segments of On The Other
Hand
bpNichol
- from
Translating Translating Apollinaire
- from Sharp
Facts Variations on TTA 26 *
- from Art Facts; a
book of contexts *
- For more, go to bpNichol Home
Page
Peter O'Leary
- Illuminations
*
Toby Olson
- poems from Home
-
Aesthetics
[]
Maureen Owen
- The No-Travel
Journals []
- A Brass Choir
Approaches the Burial Ground []
- from Zombie Notes
- from Imaginary
Income
- from AE: Amelia
Earhart
for more, go to Muareen Owen
Homepage
Rochelle Owens
- Poems - NOT BE
ESSENCE THAT CANNOT BE
[] & selections from I Am the Babe of Joseph
Stalin's Daughter
- "Part 3: Fire Clay"
from The Joe 82 Creation Poems
- for more, go to the Rochelle Owens
Home Page
Clemente Padin
- Selections from Visual
Poems *
- 4 Ways To Say
NO! Mail Art by Clemente Padin. *
Kenneth Patchen
- Kaldron Survey. *
Carl Lynden Peters
- Seven Poems from
PM AD
Paul Pines
- AFTER HOURS:
10 Jazz Poems
Charles Plymell
- Neal Cassady and other
poems
Harry Polkinhorn
- five poems
Carl Rakosi
- Hygieia, of
Perspective
Rochelle Ratner
- Pretext Series
- Hide and
Seek * []
Sherry Reniker
- 10 poems from
GeoFrictions
Janet Rodney
- Cities
(Alashka, Part 1) with Nathaniel Tarn []+
- Road In
(Alashka, Part 2) with Nathaniel Tarn []+
- White/Out
(Alashka, Part 3) with Nathaniel Tarn []+
- The Forest
(Alashka, Part 4) with Nathaniel Tarn []+
- City of the Long
Spring from ORPHYDICE
- Chameleon's
Cadmium (with graphics) []
- Chameleon's
Cadmium (without graphics) []
- from
Crystals
Marilyn R. Rosenberg
- Shadowland
*
- Scalembric
*
- Stories of
the Everyday Book Mobile. *
- Kaldron
Survey Introduction
Jerome Rothenberg
- from Poland/1931
- "The Holy Words
of Tristan Tzara" from ABULAFIA'S CIRCLES
- GEMATRIA 27 with
Harris Lenowitz
- The Leonardo Project,
10 + 2 Poems *
Michael Rothenberg
- Vows and Entertainment
- Stamped
from Slate to Dreidel: A Graphic Sequence
Próspero Saíz
- A Selection of Poems
Armand Schwerner
Survey
Christy Sheffield Sanford
- The Rockgarden of Love *
- Ocean
Movement Study (Rhythms) *
- 175 Clouds
Barry Silesky
- 4 poems from The New Tenants
John Solt
Circling Rainbows
Hugh Steinberg
- While the Thunder
Lasted I Felt Like God
Carol Stetser
- Kaldron Survey
Ingrid Swanberg
- Eight Poems
Arthur Sze
- The Silk Road
- Streamers
John Taggart
- Slow Song for Mark
Rothko and Inside Out
Nathaniel Tarn
- Cities
(Alashka, Part 1) with Janet Rodney []+
- Road In
(Alashka, Part 2) with Janet Rodney []+
- White/Out
(Alashka, Part 3) with Janet Rodney []+
- The Forest
(Alashka, Part 4) with Janet Rodney []+
- The Great Odor of
Summer
Tod Thilleman
- Wave Run
Alicia Torres
- Consideración de la
rosa
(with English translation by Paddy Bushe).
John Tritica
- Residence in the
High Desert
Amy Trussell
- 4 Poems
David UU
- Poems from Chopped Liver
Edgardo Antonio Vigo
- Memorial, with
samples.
Texto
Español a Postypographika.
Rosmarie Waldrop
- Nothing Has Changed []
Marc Weber
- 48 Small
Poems []
- Circle of Light
Don Wellman
- Two Poems from
Fields
Yamanaka Ryojiro
- visual poems
from Nothing Limits *
Karl Young
- Three,
Hiroshima
- To Dream
Kalapuya []
- Selections from Clouds Over
Fortjade *
- Openings from Cried and
Measured *
- for more, go to Karl Young Home Page
Group Productions
David T. Doris
- Zen Vaudeville
Extended meditation on Zen and Fluxus, with particular emphasis on
performance pieces and short poems. Commentary on cast of characters including
John Cage, George Brecht, Ken Friedman, Dick Higgins, George Maciunas, Yoko
Ono, and others.
Zen-kabaré
Fordította: Koppány Márton. (Hungarian translation by Márton Koppány)
Gerald Janecek
- from ZAUM: The
Transrational Poetry of Russian Futurism
"Kruchonykh in Tifflis."
Detailed study of Kruchonykh's work between 1917 and 1921.
Gerald Janecek
- A Report on
Transfursim
Essay on late Soviet Samizdat artists continuing in the
Futurist and Zaum line. Special emphasis on Ry Nikonova, Sergei Segei, and
Boris Konstriktor.
Philadelpho Menezes
- Introduction
and Conclusion to Poetics and Visuality
Frame for Menezes' most
important critical work. Questions many assumptions regarding visual poetry,
particularly in Latin America.
Renato Barilli
- Beyond the Threshold of
the Letter
Concluding chapter from Barilli's Voyage to the End of
the Word, a classic study of Italian Avant-Garde poetry of the 70s and
80s. Includes brief survey of efforts by Italian poets.
Enzo Minarelli
- Polypoetry.
This short article lies at the center of Minarelli's multimedia poetry.
Multimedia is, in this context, a sort of familiar shorthand for what you'll
find discussed here.
Clemente Padin
- Art and
People: Latin American Art in Our Time. []
This book,
published here for the first time, is probably Padin's most important critical
work, and perhaps the most comprehensive overview of new art forms in Latin
America written to date.
Clemente Padin
- Aspiration to
Freedom
Memorial to the Argentine polymath artist, Edgardo Antonio
Vigo.
Texto
Español a Postypographika.
Klaus Peter Dencker
- From Concrete
To Visual Poetry, With A Glimpse Into The Electronic Future
Landmark
thoeretical essay providing one approach to the essential distinction between
Concrete and Visual Poetry.
David Antin
- The Stranger at the
Door
Beginning with commentary on poems by George Brecht published in
some/thing magazine, Antin speculates on the nature of contemporary
poetry.
Bob Grumman
- "MNMLST
POETRY"
As usual, Bob Grumman's attention to detail remains
unsurpassed. Although written as a popular introduction to one of the many
directions in contemporary visual poetry, this essay is worth reading by
anyone sincerely interested in literary art as a whole.
Morgan Gibson
- Revolutionary
Rexroth; Poet of East West Wisdom []
This book remains the major study
of the poetry of Kenneth Rexroth in the contexts of biography and of
philosophical and religious traditions. This web edition includes extensive
revisions and aditions to the now out-of-print editions.
Owen F. Smith
- Pre-Fluxus Conceptual
Developments and Generative Influences - Chapter 1 of Smith's Fluxus:
The History of an Attitude.
Harry Polkinhorn
- Seeing Power
[]
The first part of this book consists of an extended meditation on key
figures in European and Euro-American art - including an on-going examination
of critical methodology. The second half offers critiques of individual works
by contemporary American poets.
Harry Polkinhorn
- From Book To Anti-Book
Essay on book art and its social and political underpinnings and
implications, with particular focus on book art in Mexico.
Karl Young
- Notation and
the Art of Reading.
Young's most important essay, discussing the
interrelation of book production and poetry in several cultures as it related
to poetry in the U.S. in the early 80s.
Jelölési
rendszerek - és az olvasás
müvészete Fordította: Koppány Márton.
(Hungarian translation by Márton Koppány)
Texto
Español; traduccion: César Espinosa.
Karl Young
- Two Representative
Works of the last Decade; A Working Present for Jackson Mac Low on His 75th
Birthday
Study of Mac Low's Open Secrets CD and Words nd
Ends from Ez, in context of his opus.
Karl Young
- The Visual
Poetry of bpNichol; a Brief Sketch.
Overview, with copious examples.
Karl Young
- The Last Pages of Codex
Boturini
Essay on one of the surviving pre-Columbian Mexican
manuscripts, with facsimile and translations. [Published in
Tezcatlipoca on-line magazine, and linked from this site].
Karl Young
- Animal and Human Stages
in the Aztec Continuum of life
Study of Pre-Clombian Mexican World
View as seen through fluid metamorphic progressions. Includes reproductions of
and commentary on Codex Borbonicus. [Published in
Tezcatlipoca magazine.]
Karl Young
- Introduction to the
English Language Edition of Evald Flisar's Tales of Wandering
Multiple Views
- A Multi-Voiced
Memorial for Meridel Le Sueur
Commentery by Karl Young, Linda Montano,
Pauline Oliveros, Joe Napora, and Barbara Mor.
- Two
Approaches to John Taggart's Slow Song for Mark Rothko and
Inside Out: essays by Rochelle Ratner and Karl Young from the John
Taggart issue of Paper Air magazine.
Reviews
Pat Nolan
- A Review of Maureen
Owen's Imaginary Income
Karl Young
- "Reading the
Waves, An Introduction to Karl Kempton's Rune: A Survey"
- sighting d.a.levy, 3
Kirpan Press Reprints
- Cat Licked the
Garlic by Anne Tardos
- Spoken Texts
by Alison Knowles
- Maximus to
Gloucester Charles Olson's Letters to the Glouster Times,
- Myung Mi Kim and Maureen
Owen
- Digital Vision
by Cynthia Goodman
- Yaqui Deer Dance
Songs/Maso Bwikam by Larry Evers & Felipe S. Molina
