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Since 1974, Luna Bisonte Prods has published a wide variety of experimental, avant-garde, audio, and visual literature in a wide variety of formats by artists from all over the world. Among the authors and artists published are such major and emerging figures as Ivan Argüelles, Sheila E. Murphy, Jim Leftwich, Andrew Topel, Carlos M. Luis, Scott Helmes, Jake Berry, John M. Bennett, Susan Smith Nash, Al Ackerman, Bob Heman, Richard Kostelanetz, Charles Henri Ford, Dick Higgins, Robin Crozier, and many many others. The work is collected in major libraries and institutions, including The Museum of Modern Art, The Sackner Archive, Princeton University, SUNY Buffalo, The University of Wisconsin, Brown University, New York Public Library, Washington University, Ohio University, The Ohio State University, and many others.
Items are also distributed through such bookstores as City Lights Bookstore and Small Press Traffic in San Francisco, Powell’s Books in Portland, OR, The William Busta Gallery in Cleveland, and Printed Matter Bookstore in New York City. Material is also available through this website.
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Print: $10.97 Download: $4.00 these are separate poems but also all really one poem a single breath no periods barely any punctuation at all yet it has a rhythm of breathing, has an andante meditative and celebratory movement, a “finally knowing what is there…everywhere all at once” truly an illumination, a clarity in this work written on the edge of life and fully living “the heart beats its sustaining winds” which like this long poem have no end nor a beginning, this is Tom’s life in these pages and it’s one of the best lives he’s written, which is saying very much indeed that this is a very great work
John M. Bennett, Luna Bisonte Prods editor
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Print: $22.85 Download: FREE The kimono material in this book originates from other artists and writers - with their permission - with due credit made on each image. Often I've given website links in my comments not only so that the original image(s) contributed by my collaborator can be viewed, but also to allow the reader to do research to learn more about these incredibly creative people and to view their art, visual poetry, poetry, photography, etc. I've taken liberties to collage and embroider with Photoshop Elements 4.0 so as to fuse multiple images by one person or to elaborate on a composition or theme that develops as I work to 'fit' the kimono to that persona. It is a joy to work with material from creative people whose art and poetry I so much admire, and I feel like a 'curator' of sorts as I build my kimono collection. As when a poet constricts his/her self to the rules of a haiku, and thus discovers new surprising twists of life in language, so do I surprise myself again and again within the shape of the kimono. -CMB
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Print: $21.75 Download: $4.50 This book is PRO FOUND and PRO FUN! C. Mehrl Bennett comes from a fine arts background; B.A. in painting and drawing, spent many years as a mail artist, and has an art exhibit history from the 80’s and early 90’s that focused on junk assemblage (found objects- thus the claim for PRO FOUND). This work in this book combines her creative spirit of play using digital software with a longtime interest in visual poetry and includes collaborations (in the spirit of mail art). C. Mehrl Bennett lives in Columbus, OH, with spouse (they met through mail art), poet John M. Bennett. Her word art has been published in Lost&Found Times, Vispoeology, Otoliths, www.nakedsunfish.com, Womb, Word For/Word, and Black Box.
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Print: $10.00 Download: $5.00 C Mehrl Bennett's background is in the fine arts; B.A. in painting and drawing; with an exhibit history from the 80's and early 90's that focused on sculptural junk assemblage and installations. In an effort to revisit 2-dimensional art, she has found her creative spirit with today's digital software tools, combining her artistry with a longtime interest in visual poetry. This book includes text-only versions of many works found at www.flickr.com/cmehrlbennett, including word art published in Lost & Found Times, Vispoeology (Minneapolis Center for Book Arts), Otoliths, and numerous e-zines including www.wombpoetry.com and www.nakedsunfish.com.
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Print: $12.13 Download: $5.00 These “asemic” texts by Carlos Martínez Luis are basically completely “semic”: that is, they communicate to us by means of glyphs that have forms resonant of the human body, of human culture, and of human consciousness and memory. In the second part of this work, frequent use is made of a well-known drawing by Alfred Jarry of Père Ubu as if it were a linguistic glyph presented in a different way on each occasion with differing expressive ends. The Ubu glyph serves to open up a way of communicating with these fascinating texts, of reading and seeing them with a simultaneity which enriches the possibilities of understanding and of the experience of perception. The poet, artist, essayist, scholar, and curator Carlos Martínez Luis has created a work which pullulates with interpretive possibilities, beautiful, and which enhances the capacity of human understanding in a rare and uncommon way. -John M. Bennett
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Print: $8.97 Download: $3.75 Poetry in Spanish by/Poesía en español por John M. Bennett; With Transductions by/Con transducciones por Jon Cone.
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Print: $11.07 Download: $3.75 Rreves is a translation into French by Philippe Bille, of Ddreams by John M. Bennett, a classic minimalist poem sequence written in 1981 and published in English by Blue Lion Books, 2009
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Print: $31.07 Download: $4.38 These works were created in 2008, when, per Thomas Cassidy, "I committed myself to doing 1,000 drawings in 2008 - roughly 100
a month or 3.33 per day allowing two months off for vacations and idle
drinking." John M. Bennett is primarily a poet. John and Tom have corresponded through the mail for decades and the two of them are the primary collaborators for this book, with a generous sprinkling of works done with these other artist/poets: Sheila E. Murphy, Mark Sargent, Baron, Jukka Pekka Kervinen, Reed Altemus, Scott Helmes, Luigino Solamito, and Rea Nikonova. A total of 100 full-color images are here to drown in.
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Print: $11.50 Download: $5.00 Edward Lense has written a series of strong, personal poems on the metaphysical framework of a deck of Tarot cards, a device, with its fascinating ambiguity and resonance, that serves his purpose remarkably well. The Tarot concepts work as a kind of I Ching-like throw of the coins to stimulate meditations on the poet’s life that are both passionate and fully guided. Accompanying these poems are drawings by Bruce Robinson, which have a roughness that speaks to the underlying torment in the poems, related at times to a kind of theological undertow that seems present in both. The Great Wheel seems to be a force of destruction and death, running through this work’s conscious or unconscious voices, and challenging the reader to confront a fuller understanding of what it means to be alive. As the poet says here, “Another body stirs inside my body,/its slow pulse not the beat of my heart but the tides,/a cloud of blood suspended in water.”
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Print: $34.47 Download: FREE Color, vivid and subtle, is a major protagonist in this amazing dialogue of text, text fragments, line, and image; a dialogue not so much between the 2 collaborators (the work is strikingly unified) as between the several modes of expression these pieces exhibit. Truly a unique and wonderful creation!
Excerpts from introduction: "This book represents the first consolidated depiction of the Ernst-Murphy collaborative in extended form. Compiling the volume has facilitated the elucidating and sharing what the artists have opted to consider part of an emerging oeuvre." "Visio-textual art draws life from letters, syllables, and words, from line, from curve, to shape, enacting a philosophical geometry in which concept and physical reality are conjoined." "Collaboration is about discovery and surprise. In the experience of working together, the process-based discoveries in visio-textual art are amplified by virtue of the added thought power..."
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Print: $11.97 Download: $4.00 (Full Color Cover designed by Tom Taylor)
Paul T. Lambert, The King of Inismo in America? The Secret Flood in Temple 13? Is this His Charter? The New Constitution Laying Down the Form? His Autobiography? Yes it is yes it is yes it is yes it is. Distilled from esoteric links to All The Texts, this Tome surpasses them all; it is more intelligent, more illuminated, more cancerous, more fluvial, more shapely, more ineffable, more Smiling the Total Smile than whatever else you think you have “read”. Nothing will be the same, all praise to St. Lambert. Read every word here and then read them again. You are now “Elections officials in the wall… ,flot ,hat, heap ,hunt ,hack ,trump ,flist ,fan, fono ,flake Torture is…the drumbeat…obscenity charges…capitulated blood on the sand.” You will “buy some hangers”, “same closet gasping the”. Yes it is. Yes it is. Yes it is. Yes it is.
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