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UbuWeb: visual poetry

INTRODUCTION TO UBUWEB: VISUAL POETRY

UBUWEB began as an online repository for concrete and visual poetry
scanned from aging anthologies and re-imagined as back-lit
transmissions from a potential future. As the archive has progressed,
the concentration on visual poetry has waned in favour of an
reconnoitering of diverse avant-gardes.

UBUWEB: VISUAL POETRY exposes little-seen exemplars of historical
praxis and models of contemporary insight to a wider audience. This
section includes anthologies, ephemeral publications, criticism and
sporadic journals dedicated to visual poetry. Due to the elusive and
ephemeral nature of concrete and visual poetry publications, there is
a perceived lack of innovation in the genre. Without exposure to
radical practice, artistic precedent and innovative models, concrete
poets too often fall back upon familiar tropes and unchallenging
forms.

UBUWEB: VISUAL POETRY is not presented under the rubric of historical
coverage or indexical completeness, but rather as a document of
isloate moments of what Haroldo de Campos argued was a “notion of
literature not as craftsmanship but […] as an industrial prcoess”
where the poem is a “prototype” rather than the “typical handiwork of
artistic artistry.”

— derek beaulieu, curator

http://ubu.com/vp/index.html

“Abecedarium” by Peter Lamborn Wilson

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Abecedarium –by Peter Lamborn Wilson

http://xexoxial.org/is/abecedarium/by/peter_lamborn_wilson

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2010. 8.25 x 8.25, 68 pages, b + w. $10.00 + $3 shipping.
ISBN 0-9770049-8-8 | EAN-13 978-0-9770049-8-0

Alphapoetic meditation on the etymology of the English alphabet with diagrams by the author.

Peter Lamborn Wilson’s quick wit and poetic intelligence add immeasurably to the small store of recent art and poetry (Mac Low, Berman, Silliman, Bok, Johns, to name a few) celebrating or utilitizng the lore and wonder of alphabetic writing. As with Mac Low and Berman in particular, Wilson’s focus is on the Hebrew alphabet, coterminous with the Phoenician at the alphabet’s beginnings: a meditation, visual and verbal, on the shape, form, history, and praxis of the letters and signs in question. The resultant Abecedarium, reads like poetry or what we now take poetry to be: short and tight prose versets that bring to life a world of lore and tradition, and by so doing, make it new. A book to read again and again, and a lettristic delight.

—Jerome Rothenberg

Abecedarium by Peter Lamborn WilsonThis remarkable lexicon explores tensions between life in a world before the State and the emergence of the alphabet, or the origin of the world as we purport to know it. Amidst the reign and terror of nonsense, in a land where ‘everything is believable and nothing knowable,’ Peter Lamborn Wilson—at the peak of his extraordinary power—tutors us in the old ways in an offering of both knowledge and wisdom.

—Ammiel Alcalay

Review copies available upon request.

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