Asemic Writing for Mail-Artists

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Comment by De Villo Sloan on September 25, 2015 at 2:41am

I received this great asemic piece from Richard Canard (Illinois, USA). These decomposed letters are an approach both Jim Leftwich (Virginia, USA) and Tim Gaze (Australia) favor. As a result, I've started calling it Deconstructive Asemics. Anyway, a tremendous contribution, IMHO.

http://iuoma-network.ning.com/profiles/blogs/storage-shed-wars-read...

Comment by Ruud Janssen on September 22, 2015 at 4:55pm

Comment by De Villo Sloan on September 22, 2015 at 4:15pm

Our own Ruud Janssen has asemic work featured on Michael Jacobson's post-literate blog. Join the Digital Asemic Revolution! Very interesting work.

http://thenewpostliterate.blogspot.com/2015/09/digital-asemic-revol...

Comment by Jason C. Motsch on September 10, 2015 at 2:36am

Thanks Jan and De Villo.  I did see the collabs by Diane Keys and John Bennett and think they are amazing.  I absolutely love their work.

Comment by De Villo Sloan on September 10, 2015 at 2:30am

Excellent work by Jason. Thx Jan

I don't know if everyone can see it. John Bennett and Diane Keys have done some collabs that I think are spectacular, and they are going to be published. This one I shared on my FB page:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153751510119728&set=a...

Comment by Jan Hodgman on September 10, 2015 at 1:15am

A beaut arrived from Jason......only slightly mangled in flight:

Comment by De Villo Sloan on September 7, 2015 at 4:32pm

An excellent interview w/ visual poet Miekal And in the "Huffington Post." Many of you probably know him from FB or when he was (hugely) active in the network. Miekal is producing some excellent asemic work, although he tends to want to call it vispo.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/feliz-l-molina/visual-poetry-with-mie...

Comment by De Villo Sloan on September 7, 2015 at 1:18am

Tin Gaze = Tim Gaze

Comment by De Villo Sloan on September 7, 2015 at 1:17am

And Chris Wells - thanks to the Bob Grenier links. Those are great pieces and more evidence that poets have been doing this a long time before the naming of the current movement. (Jim Leftwich has interesting things to say about the history, and he pinpoints Tin Gaze in Australia as being important. (A lot of guys, huh?"

Well, the L=A=N=G=P=O folks have always been very supportive of vispo. I did note that Jan found the Michaux piece on a Ginsberg blog because I think an important source is Burroughs and Gysin. I could see a Beat influence in the Grenier pieces, although he could have gotten the idea elsewhere. For me, Grenier has always been this transitional figure half in Black Mt. and half in Langpo, although I am sure it's more complicated.

Comment by De Villo Sloan on September 7, 2015 at 1:07am

Noma Jean - we also know Richard Canard as the Quacker Jack Kid aka the Prince of Pop. It's terribly confusing.

Thanks for the comments on asemic writing and childhood. I far prefer saying, "It's so easy a child could do it" to going into pomo literary theory, which is another avenue.

Perhaps this pre-literate (?) fascination w/language is some essential stage in human development. I don't know psych well enough to say.

Richard has a point: The asemic experience is also similar to certain states of psychosis or extreme disassociation. (I am not joking.) I notice some of the literary folks make much of the "unintelligible," so that can be a perspective as well.

AND remember the Surrealists were so interested in automatic writing and drawing. I keep threatening to do a piece on automatic writing and asemics.

Richard says I always try to get in the last word, so don't let me.

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