Michael Basinski
Carrots R Muse
Carrots R Muse is an opem, poetry with multiple entry points, which can be rendered variously. Color and image are read, and letters are variously vocalized. Therefore, the work is also sound poetry. Carrots are the roots of poetry and a gang, as in The Carrot Gang. Read the work with indeterminacy, calling upon your memory and knowledge base to become facets of the poetry. The work was formed with magic makers from the corner supermarket, colored ink pens, acoupla stickers from free in the mail pantyhose and a tag from a nightgown. |
Billy
| MOM Billy is eatin Basinski's Poetry!!! is a poemtoon that asks to be read as experiment beyond the veils of words, worbs, and letters in an act of imaginative discovery. The work ponders hearing, speech and reading and disdains the notion of frozen on the page poetic arrogance. The poem is dedicated to William R. Howe, poet and essence of literary event. In composition the work includes paper, photocopy, supermarket magic markers, colored ink pens, highlighter, and stickers from a cantaloupe and the new iron in the Basinski household. |
The Associate Curator of The Poetry/Rare Books Collection, SUNY at Buffalo, Michael Basinski's poems, opems, visual poetry, essays and reviews are published far, wide and deep down in the poetry underground. He performs his work with his ensemble BuffFluxus and as a solo artist (hear: RadioRadio on http://www.ubu.com - Basinski and BuffFluxus). He has published more than 25 books of poetry including: Heka, Strange Things Begin to Happen When a Meteor Crashes in the Arizona Desert , Cnyttan and Heebie-Jeebies. Some available at Small Press Distribution: http://www.spdbooks.org/ |
ERRATA AND CONTRADICTION :: 2004 :: Dudley House (Harvard University). Phillip John Usher and Melissa Shields
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