Cover of Collected by Charlotte Jung (Sweden: Timglaset 2023) (Image courtesy of the artist) Essay/review - Collected: Concrete Poems by Charlotte Jung Malmo, Sweden: Timglaset (2023) 124 pages, perfect bound, 7” X 8” Review by De Villo Sloan In preparing to write this essay on the minimalist poetry of Charlotte Jung, I have been greatly assisted by the publication of Collected: Concrete Poems by Charlotte Jung . This edition was released in 2023 by Timglaset, the acclaimed Swedish publisher of postavant lit. Collected gathers the majority of Jung’s minimalist compositions to date, including the contents of entire chapbooks and longer sequences, among them C (2019), (SEED) (Timglaset 2020), Hole Being (No Press 2021), and RAPE ( The Blasted Tree 2022), among others. This substantial volume does much to establish Jung as an important, innovative minimalist poet of the 21 st century. Readers of contemporary visual poetr...
"Double Sestina (1)" by Kristine Snodgrass (Florida, USA) & De Villo Sloan (New York, USA) "Double Sestina (2)" by Kristine Snodgrass & De Villo Sloan "Double Sestina (3)" by Kristine Snodgrass & De Villo Sloan "Sestina" (source) by De Villo Sloan "Sestina" (reject) by De Villo Sloan
Cover of Interrupted Narrative: A Hypergraphic Novel by mIEKAL aND (West Lima, Wisconsin, USA) (Xerox Sutra Editions 2024) (Image courtesy of the Asemic Front 2 Archive) Review of Interrupted Narrative: A Hypergraphic Novel by mIEKAL aND La Farge Wisconsin, USA: Xerox Sutra Editions 2024 8 X 10 inches; 84 black & white plates Review by De Villo Sloan I have just recently obtained a copy of mIEKAL aND’s Interrupted Narrative: A Hypergraphic Novel published in 2024 by Xerox Sutra Editions in La Farge, Wisconsin, USA. I am enjoying perusing this excellent collection and want to register some observations in the official record of my reviews and commentary before at last saying a fond farewell to 2024. The creation of AI-assisted digital vispo (for which mIEKAL aND is receiving much praise) is opening new literary genres. We are witnessing the birth of patasemics, metasemics, conceptualism, quantum poetry, and numerous other new poetic forms and c...
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