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andrew wylie interviewed by guillermo altares for ‘el país’

Among the literary giants included under the letter B on Andrew Wylie’s endless client list are Giorgio Bassani, Jorge Luis Borges, Saul Bellow, Paul and Jane Bowles, Joseph Brodsky, William Burroughs and Roberto Bolaño, eight of the twentieth century’s most important writers. Under C, one finds Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Italo Calvino and Albert Camus. Andrew Wylie, 74, is the world’s most powerful literary agent. His agency has offices in New York and London, and they employ 50 people. … → read the whole text here

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billy o’callaghan: “galileo’s drawings of our sun’s spots (1612)”

Galileo Galilei drew our Sun’s spots at about the same time each day over the course of 37 days in June and July of 1612 (skipping two days and yielding 35 drawings). He could not look directly at our Sun without significant damage to his eyes. His solution was to use the latest technology – a telescope – to project an image of the Sun onto a piece of prepared paper. Galileo drew a circle with a compass and positioned the paper so that the Sun aligned with the circle, allowing him to draw in the sunspots from a consistent perspective each day. A casual review of these drawings makes evident that our Sun rotates, and at a much slower rate than Earth’s 24-hour cycle. This cascading accordion presents those 35 drawings, side-by-side, in sequence, across 70 pages. This book may be read by by flipping through the pages, like a normal book, or played, like a flip-book crossed with a slinky, to animate one full rotation of our Sun (back and forth).

https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/59749/

(take a look at this too)

david-baptiste chirot – in memoriam

https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/david-baptiste-chirot-and-david-baptiste-chirot-and-c-mehrl-bennett-and-john-m-bennett/poet-on-the-right-side-of-history/paperback/product-4g6nyv.html

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After a five month stay in hospital, well-known international artist and poet, David-Baptiste Chirot (birth name, David Harris) began, in the late 1980’s, a new phase in his artistic journey at River View apartments in Milwaukee Wisconsin with artworks, films, writing, only to have it interrupted in early June 2021 by his untimely death. Friends and fellow artists/writers helped piece together this in-memoriam from notebooks, files, loose pages and artworks, salvaged from his apartment, and with works inspired by his art, writings, and their memories of father, brother, friend, artist, writer, poet & visual poet, David-Baptiste Chirot (b.1953 – d.2021).

Eds: Tom Hibbard, John M. Bennett, Catherine Mehrl Bennett

geof huth’s new book: “in chancery” (red fox press)

In Chancery by GEOF HUTH.
A sequence of photographs of records of the long-defunct New York Court of Chancery, presented as visual poems.

The Rescued Pieces of In Chancery

My paid work focuses on government records from the 1600s to today, those encoded in bits and thrumming through wires and air, and those on paper and parchment. When working with the oldest of these, which usually bear signs of decay, I face the pleasure of the archives, or how an old document carries into the present the words and actions of the past, though always changed, always transmogrified by time. The old records I oversee have been stored poorly sometimes for centuries, so their cotton-fiber paper, which would have retained its bright whiteness if stored properly, has devolved into shades of tans and browns. The records also bear the manners and markings of their times, making these routine papers magical to the 21st-century eye. Seals and ribbons, intended to convey authenticity, festoon the documents, as do arcane phrases and ornate penmanship. Even the name of the court I chose to document so heavily, the Court of Chancery, carries the scent of a faraway past, as do the papers themselves. As I processed these, I recognized some of them as inchoate visual poems and photographed hundreds of them, to capture their verbo-visual delights for myself and you.

Geof Huth

“glitchasemics” @ new year’s eve

http://postasemicpress.blogspot.com/2020/05/glitchasemics-by-marco-giovenale-is.html

Glitchasemics

https://postasemicpress.blogspot.com/2020/09/note-su-glitchasemics-di-marco.html

https://slowforward.net/2020/05/19/glitchasemics-by-mg/

http://eexxiitt.blogspot.com/2020/05/glitchasemics-post-asemic-press.html

amazon.it/GLITCHASEMICS-Marco-Giovenale/dp/1734866209

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television 1956 / jim leftwich, jukka-pekka kervinen (arrum press, 2008)

more infos about “an anthology of asemic handwriting”

booktrailer:

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http://www.uitgeverij.cc/publications/an-anthology-of-asemic-handwriting/

http://www.amazon.com/Anthology-Asemic-Handwriting-Michael-Jacobson/dp/9081709178/

About the book (from Uitgeverij):
An Anthology of Asemic Handwriting is the first book-length publication to collect the work of a community of writers on the edges of illegibility. Asemic writing is a galaxy-sized style of writing, which is everywhere yet remains largely unknown. For human observers, asemic writing may appear as lightning from a storm, a crack in the sidewalk, or the tail of a comet. But despite these observations, asemic writing is not everything: it is just an essential component, a newborn supernova dropped from a calligrapher’s hand. Asemic writing is simultaneously communicating with the past and the future of writing, from the earliest undeciphered writing systems to the xenolinguistics of the stars; it follows a peregrination from the preliterate, beyond the verbal, finally ending in a postliterate condition in which visual language has superseded words. An Anthology of Asemic Handwriting is compiled and edited by Tim Gaze from Asemic magazine and Michael Jacobson from The New Post-Literate blog.

Works by:
Reed Altemus, mIEKAL aND, Rosaire Appel, Francesco Aprile, Roy Arenella, Derek Beaulieu, Pat Bell, John M. Bennett, Francesca Biasetton, Volodymyr Bilyk, Tony Burhouse & Rob Glew, Nancy Burr, Riccardo Cavallo, Mauro Césari, Peter Ciccariello, Andrew Clark, Carlfriedrich Claus, Bob Cobbing, Patrick Collier, Robert Corydon, Jeff Crouch, Marilyn Dammann, Donna Maria Decreeft, Alessandro De Francesco, Monica Dengo, Mirtha Dermisache, Bill Dimichele, Christian Dotremont, Jean Dubuffet, Max Ernst, Mark Firth, Eckhard Gerdes, Mike Getsiv, Jean-Christophe Giacottino, Marco Giovenale, Meg Green, Brion Gysin, Jeff Hansen, Huái Sù, Geof Huth, Isidore Isou, Michael Jacobson, Satu Kaikkonen, Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, Rashid Koraishi, Irene Koronas, Edward Kulemin, Lê Quốc Việt & Trần Trọng Dương, Jim Leftwich, Misha Magazinnik, Matt Margo, André Masson, Nuno de Matos, Willi Melnikov, Morita Shiryu, Sheila E. Murphy, Nguyễn Đức Dũng, Nguyễn Quang Thắng, Phạm Văn Tuấn, François Poyet, Kerri Pullo, Lars Px, Marilyn R. Rosenberg, Roland Sabatier, Ekaterina Samigulina & Yuli Ilyshchanska, Alain Satié, Karen L. Schiff, Spencer Selby, Peggy Shearn, Ahmed Shibrain, Christopher Skinner, Hélène Smith, Lin Tarczynski, Morgan Taubert, Andrew Topel, Cecil Touchon, Louise Tournay, Trần Trọng Dương, Lawrence Upton, Sergio Uzal, Marc van Elburg, Nico Vassilakis, Glynda Velasco, Simon Vinkenoog, Vsevolod Vlaskine, Cornelis Vleeskens, Anthony Vodraska, Voynich Manuscript, Jim Wittenberg, Michael Yip, Logan K. Young, Yorda Yuan, Camille Zehenne, Zhāng Xù, & others

About asemic writing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asemic_writing
http://asemic.net/
http://thenewpostliterate.blogspot.it/
http://asemic-net.blogspot.it/
http://foffof2.blogspot.it/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/76178850228/
https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#%21forum/asemic

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“an anthology of asemic handwriting”


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“An Anthology of Asemic Handwriting” now available for preorder. Shipping expected this month.http://www.uitgeverij.cc/publications/an-anthology-of-asemic-handwriting/
on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Anthology-Asemic-Handwriting-Michael-Jacobson/dp/9081709178/

“an anthology of asemic handwriting”


[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z2zIIs8HVk&w=420&h=315]

“An Anthology of Asemic Handwriting” now available for preorder. Shipping expected early September.http://www.uitgeverij.cc/publications/an-anthology-of-asemic-handwriting/

pre-order copies of “the last vispo anthology” now

The Last Vispo Anthology: Visual Poetry 1998-2008 is being published by Fantagraphics Books and will arrive in stores by early November. You can PRE-ORDER copies now at http://www.fantagraphics.com/browse-shop/the-last-vispo-anthology-visual-poetry-1998-2008.html. Also, there will be an international schedule of launches and exhibits for The Last Vispo that will be posted in the coming months.

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the Facebook page – http://www.facebook.com/last.vispo

the website – http://www.thelastvispo.com/

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