Saturday, March 04, 2006

jim leftwich & the baron


jim leftwich & the baron
Originally uploaded by jim leftwich.

Friday, March 03, 2006

from scott macleod


from scott macleod
Originally uploaded by jim leftwich.
drawings by inmates of Czech mental hospital - text is made up language

scott macleod


scott macleod
Originally uploaded by jim leftwich.

scott macleod

long war event
(pataphysical resistance generator #1)

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1- starved hob-nob farce crotch

2- jeers parch cock hymn

3- helical grub snot darned pulpit

4- smack assed prelim

5- hunch festered creosote fish paddle

6- time fissure corrupt pontoon

7- listen trim bunker sturm frug

8- tin shit attitude plunder break rage

9- bleats malign undone sissy pimp

10- churl triggers enema belted lubes

11- prolapse carrot frisk blintz cart

12- sputter candle morose vacant church

13- spin distant manual choke points

14- atoll glare crusted barnacles

15- swerve allure brave swill

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unstructions: shake your own

scott macleod


scott macleod
Originally uploaded by jim leftwich.

paolo leminski, translated by chris daniels

josely vianna baptista, translated by chris daniels

Wednesday, March 01, 2006

Jessica Smith

Manifest


1. The poem is a topological space.
1.1    The poem is situated on a topological space
1.1.1           The "blank" space of the page is not "blank."
1.1.1.1      It is volatile; it is active.  Words may be in one place and may shift to another place.
1.1.1.2      It is porous and unstable.  Words may falls into faults or cracks in the page.
1.1.1.3      It is spongy.  Different places on the page have different weights and gravitational pulls.  This affects placement of words.
1.1.2          Words may become unrecognizable due to geographic activity.
1.1.2.1      Meaning is secondary to sight.
1.1.2.1.1 Meaning must be collected in a treasure hunt through the page.
1.1.2.1.2 Meaning is one of many possible maps through a page.
1.1.2.1.3 Meaning is only possible on the level of the page.
1.1.2.1.3.1        The page's topology determines meaning.
1.1.2.1.3.2        The words' geological placement determines meaning.
1.1.2.1.3.3        History determines meaning.
1.1.2.1.3.4        The reader's specific travels determine meaning.
1.1.2.2      Sound is secondary to sight.
1.1.2.2.1 The page is not a score for reading.
1.1.2.2.1.1        The poem need not be read aloud.
1.1.2.2.1.2        The "blank" spaces of the page are not "scored."
1.1.2.2.1.2.1               The "blank" spaces of the page are not equal.  Some spaces are more blank than others.  Some blank spaces are larger than other blank spaces that may look equal.
1.1.2.2.1.2.2               "Blank" spaces can be bridged, like a wormhole rather than like a musical measure.
1.2    The poem is a set of topological figures or features.
1.2.1           Words are subject to disintegration, death, and other natural events that individuals of all types face.
1.2.2           The words on the page represent the page at a certain geological moment.
1.2.2.1      This moment implies a history.
1.2.2.2      This moment entails a future.
1.2.2.3      The reader sees merely a moment captured.
1.2.3           The "level of the page" is the only level.
1.2.3.1      The vertical "reader to page" and "author to page" and "author to reader" relationships are eradicated.
1.2.3.2      The horizontal journey through the page, as a hiker on a trail, is the only way to search for meaning.
1.2.3.2.1 As such meanings will be different for each traveler.
1.2.3.2.2 As such meaning is made through memory.  Connections are delayed, soundings are delayed, meaning is delayed.  Meaning is put together.
1.2.3.2.3 As such meaning is a compound impression of a physically traversed space (the eye moves physically through the space as the mind encounters fragmented signifiers).
1.2.3.2.4 Each poem is a microcosm.
2. The page is a slice of geological time.  It has a past and a future.  It has physical features.
2.1 It could have been otherwise.
3. The poem and the page become topological at the same time; as the reader traverses their space, he or she perceives a shifting, coming-into-being topology.

carla bertola & john m. bennett

carla bertola & john m. bennett

billy mavreas & john m. bennett

billy mavreas & john m. bennett

billy mavreas & john m. bennett

billy mavreas & john m. bennett

billy mavreas & john m. bennett

billy mavreas & john m. bennett

don boyd & john m. bennett


don boyd & john m. bennett
Originally uploaded by jim leftwich.

don boyd & john m. bennett


don boyd & john m. bennett
Originally uploaded by jim leftwich.

john m. bennett

War Slather Event


1. tape and spinning
2. slope and tomb
3. hup and flavor
4. cheap and bushy
5. craw and pout
6. bunch and pee
7. see and lunch
8. flout and law
9. mushy and creep
10. waver and cup
11. spoon and hope
12. grinning and ape

Wipe off TV screen

vittore baroni & john m. bennett

vittore baroni & john m. bennett

vittore baroni & john m. bennett

nico vassilakis - from RiG


nico vassilakis - from RiG
Originally uploaded by jim leftwich.

nico vassilakis - from RiG


nico vassilakis - from RiG
Originally uploaded by jim leftwich.

nico vassilakis - from RiG


nico vassilakis - from RiG
Originally uploaded by jim leftwich.

Tuesday, February 28, 2006

guest


guest
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guest


guest
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guest


guest
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guest


guest
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guest


guest
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guest


guest
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guest


guest
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card


card
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card


card
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card


card
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card


card
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card


card
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card


card
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card


card
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card


card
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card


card
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card


card
Originally uploaded by jim leftwich.

jim leftwich & ralph eaton


jim leftwich & ralph eaton
Originally uploaded by jim leftwich.

jim leftwich & ralph eaton


jim leftwich & ralph eaton
Originally uploaded by jim leftwich.

jim leftwich & ralph eaton


jim leftwich & ralph eaton
Originally uploaded by jim leftwich.

jim leftwich & ralph eaton


jim leftwich & ralph eaton
Originally uploaded by jim leftwich.

jim leftwich & ralph eaton


jim leftwich & ralph eaton
Originally uploaded by jim leftwich.

jim leftwich & ralph eaton


jim leftwich & ralph eaton
Originally uploaded by jim leftwich.

jim leftwich & ralph eaton


jim leftwich & ralph eaton
Originally uploaded by jim leftwich.

jim leftwich & ralph eaton


jim leftwich & ralph eaton
Originally uploaded by jim leftwich.

tom taylor- isodicon


tom taylor- isodicon
Originally uploaded by jim leftwich.

tom taylor- isodicon


tom taylor- isodicon
Originally uploaded by jim leftwich.

tom taylor- isodicon


tom taylor- isodicon
Originally uploaded by jim leftwich.