dbqp: visualizing poetics: October 2006

Not Quite a Graphic Novelette

Ray Bradbury and Dave Kean, "Fly, Timothy, fly" from The Homecoming (2006)

Until tonight, I didn’t know Ray Bradbury’s short story, “The Homecoming.” I’d known Bradbury well enough, having read plenty of his short stories and a good handful of his novels. I see him as a romantic—his prose always purpling a bit (just as mine does)—yet a reasonably good writer in the end.

But the story I was reading tonight wasn’t merely a story of words. It was also one of the series of Wonderfully Illustrated Short Pieces (WISP) put out by Collins Design (an imprint of HarperCollins).

Oct

Just Watch

Detournament of Clerics (27 Oct 2006)

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Oct

A Little Less than Something

Westin Governor Morris, Room 401, Morristown, New Jersey

At today's conference luncheon, Jeffrey Eger, editor of The Journal of the Thomas Nast Society, gave an illuminating speech on political cartooning and how it works. Nast, along with quite a few other cartoonists, appeared in the talk, which was an old-fashioned slide show, but given with the panache of someone who knew how to organize and present information. He spoke eloquently on the power of iconography in political cartooning.

Oct

A Hand in This World

Kurt Vonnegut, "Funniest Joke" from A Man Without a Country (2005)

Westin Governor Morris, Room 401, Morristown, New Jersey

The other day, in Manhattan, I stopped at The Strand, the famed bookstore at Broadway and, about, 13th Street.

Oct

A Visual Poem in Three Easy Steps

Methods of creation interest me, so before I droop towards sleep tonight, I’ll spend a few minutes thinking of my own processes of creation. I use myself as a guinea pig merely because I’m the only guinea pig I have, not because my methods are any more interesting than anyone else’s.

There is a set of poems I create with a scanner. I place letters of cardboard or other materials onto the platen of the scanner. This step seems simple enough, but it is the most difficult part of the process.

Oct

The Fewest Words are the Best

Max Middle, “urtnoyy.0” (2006)

prPrimeau, who is a remarkable minimalist visual poet himself, has been putting out a small xerozine of minimalist poetry under the title Dirt. The last issue was thick, juicy, and made up of nothing but small jewels—a pomegranate of a zine.

Now, Phil has moved his operations to the web and released today what appears to be an unnumbered issue of dirt: a journal of minimalism, now incarnated as a blogzine.

Oct

Connexus

Announcement of Acquisition of Factsheet Five Collection, CAA Newsletter # 20 (Aug 1992)

Marriott New York at the Brooklyn Bridge, Room 1514, Brooklyn, New York

Life and art are about connections, and I like to keep them going.

Oct

light and lighter still, that light

On a field of grey, all we can see is one word, “listenight,” in white but leaving a delicate shadow. Grey, black, and white. That word is a hyperlink to a webpage that shows us we are reading listenlight 03, the fourth* issue of this most delicate and pristine of webzines.

Karl Kempton, “essence” (2006)

This issue consists of a good survey of contemporary North American visual poetry via a selection of work from a decad of visual poets.

Oct

When the ! Clicks, it Jumps

Contents ahead linking altogether

have not been concerned.

Because as for the link and the like

which was pasted, there is also a possibility

of the ! of contents and the !

(with source which is malice, and page

which crashes) et cetera which prohibit

the perusal under 18 to the bulletin board,

please note sufficiently.

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Oct

Post-Dogmatist Dogma Post

The artist and sometime visual poet Cecil Touchon currently has an exhibit at

The Marshall Gallery

4168 N. Marshall Way, Scottsdale AZ 85251

480.970.3111

Cecil Touchon’s page at the Marshall Gallery website.

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visual poetry, the textual imagination, and personal experience