«I am Michael Jacobson, a book and sound poetry publisher at Post-Asemic Press. This video displays the books I have written and released out into the world. They include my collected asemic calligraphy ‘Works & Interviews,’ my ribald-punk senryu poetry collection ‘Hei Kuu,’ a prose poetry novella ‘Somnolent Game,’ and my forthcoming (September 2023) abstract illuminated manuscript: ‘id est: neo scribalist asemic expressionism.’ All of these books express different chapters in my life experience, but they all tie together my personal mythology in the codex form».
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Michael Jacobson is a writer, artist, publisher, and independent curator from Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA/Turtle Island. His books include an abstract illuminated manuscript titled ‘id est: neo scribalist asemic expressionism,’ a prose poetry novella ‘Somnolent Game’ (Post-Asemic Press), his collected asemic writing ‘Works & Interviews’ (Post-Asemic Press), his autobiographical collection of senryu poems ‘Hei Kuu’ (Post-Asemic Press), and his EP of sound poetry ‘Schizo Variations;’ he is also co-editor of ‘An Anthology Of Asemic Handwriting’ (Punctum Books). Besides writing books, he curates a gallery for asemic writing called The New Post-Literate. He also sits on the editorial board of SCRIPTjr.nl. Recently, he was published in ‘The Last Vispo Anthology’ (Fantagraphics). In 2017, he curated the Minnesota Center for Book Arts exhibit: Asemic Writing: Offline & In The Gallery. Other countries where he has curated exhibits of asemic writing include Mexico, Spain, and Malta. His online interviews are at Poemeleon, SampleKanon, Asymptote Journal, Twenty Four Hours, David Alan Binder, GAS, Utsanga, Schizoaffective, and at Medium. In the past, he created the cover art for Rain Taxi’s 2014 winter issue. Back in 2017, he founded Post-Asemic Press, to publish asemic writing, visual poetry, experimental poetry, and audio recordings of sound poetry. In 2019, he was written up in the book ‘Asemic: The Art of Writing’ (University of Minnesota Press) by Peter Schwenger; it has an entire chapter dedicated to Jacobson’s calligraphic work. He also founded and administers the asemic writing Facebook group. In his spare time, he curates a cyberspace gallery of planets dubbed THAT: A Plan(et).
