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The poems in this book all show a hand with a slip of paper with a concrete poetic image between the thumb index finger, possibly a take on Wallace Berman's Verifax collages. On the back cover, it is stated that Billy Mavreas is a Canadian cartoonist and artist living in Montreal, Quebec, whose mostly silent or wordless comics revolve around the themes of language, sexuality and spirituality. He is the co-founder of Expozine, one of Canada's largest and most well respected small press fairs, as well as the curator and resident-at-large of Monastiraki, a shop and gallery of wonders in Mile End. Mavreas has also been active in the international mail-art network contributing visual poetry and graphics to many projects under the name EHEL. He continues to explore many creative outlets including vocal experimentation, installation and lately has been leading creative roundtable workshops for kids and adults. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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On the back cover and internet, it is stated that Anatol Knotek (www.anatol.cc) is an austrian artist and visual poet. He was born in Vienna, Austria where he still lives and works. Anatol's work has been exhibited internationally and his concrete and visual poems have been published in journals, chapbooks, schoolbooks and anthologies. Anatol says: "In this book I like to show the beauty of single characters in a different way, by creating rotated "character-spaces'." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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On the back cover, it is stated that karl kempton's visual poems have been nationally and internationally published and exhibited since 1974. his work has evolved from typewriter to computer b&w to color and now mixed media with use of a slr digital camera. RUNE series began november 1974. edited and published KALDRON between 1976-1990. coeditor of kaldron, volume two, on-line anthology edition published by karl young http://www.thing.net/~grist/l&d/kaldron.htm. 12 from RUNE Series and 5 PHOTONS. acknowledgments: books "” RUNE, A SURVEY and 3 CUBED; mag "” ECHO; anthologies "” WRITING TO BE SEEN and THE LAST VISUAL POETRY ANTHOLOGY. web "” logolalia, fundacaove locipedica, skylab, mathematical poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents On the back cover and internet, it is stated that Sarah McCann is a Baltimore based community artist. She partners with individuals and organizations to facilitate projects that use existing systems of behavior to form deeper human relationships and create opportunities for reflection and growth. She is currently the Wide Angle Youth Media Festival Coordinator. Sarah also teaches with Baltimore Clayworks, and is an independent curator. Her most recent curatorial endeavor What's Your War? was exhibited at Load of Fun Gallery in Baltimore and 5 Myles Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. Sarah has facilitated public and collaborative projects and looks forward to continuing her work in Baltimore and other urban centers. Sarah says: "This book contains a series of monoprints created from text appropriated from books, film, television, conversation, my own writing and other sources. I put them together in a way that I hope explains, communicates, and shares something about how I view the world. A...

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On the back cover, it is stated that he was born in 1941. Filmmaker (about 100 films for German TV), co-founder of Visual Poetry in Germany (since 1970 intern. Exhibitions & publications). Dencker did in 1972 the first TV-film (ARD/HR) and the first German anthology (Textbilder-Visuelle Poesie international. Cologne) about Visual Poetry. Dencker-Archive at the Art-Library Berlin (about 700 works & 500 books). Dencker-monograph with biography, bibliography & works: Klaus Peter Dencker, Visuelle Poesie 1965-2005. Weitra(A) 2006. Monograph about Visual Poetry: Klaus Peter Dencker, Optical Poetry. From early pictorial inscriptions to present day digital experiments. Berlin/New York, Oktober 2010. His works are in many international museums. Art-Prizes: 1972 (Erlangen), 1982 (Berlin) a. o. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents On the back cover and internet, it is stated that Evgenij V. Kharitonov, Poet, -- sound -- and visual artist, musician, and researcher of science fiction was born in 1969 in Moscow. He has a philological education, is the author of numerous literary publications and many books, and works in journalism. He is the publisher and the editor of the magazine of literary and art avant-guard "Drugoe Polusharie/Another Hemisphere", the audio-magazine of sound poetry and audio art "ARTronic Poetry", and the curator of Festival of experimental art "Lapa Azora". He created of the music projects EugeneKha, Nameless Dancers, Microbit Project, Spacebirds and Yoko Absorbing. http://academia-f.narod.ru (Home page) http://drugpolushar.narod2.ru/ (Another Hemisphere Magazine) http://www.myspace.com/evgenijvkharitonov (Sound Poetry Page) Email: drugpolushar@yandex.ru | sssr05@yandex.ru Evgenij says: "In the creativity I use various receptions of visualisation of poetry -- from a collage and book...

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On the back cover and internet, it is stated that Jenee Mateer is a photographer and video artist. She holds an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and she teaches photography and digital media at Towson University in Baltimore MD. Jenee says: "I see my work as a meditation on issues of gender, desire, identity and the complexities of language (communication). Inspired by the philosophy of Wittgenstein and Bachelard, influenced by images from popular culture, art history, advertising and various books on science, number and communication theory, electronics and computers, I search for answers to questions about responsibility, choice, chance, fate and man's place in the chaotic and complex universe." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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On the back cover and internet, it is stated that Nico Vassilakis is a multimedia artist, poet and writer. He was a curator for the Subtext Reading Series in Seattle. His visual poetry videos have been shown at festivals and exhibitions of innovative language arts. Vassilakis' writings have appeared in numerous magazines, including: EOAGH, West Line Coast, Aufgabe, Rampike, Talisman, Thermos and Golden Handcuffs Review. His latest publications are TEXT LOSES TIME, staReduction -- a vispo essay, Disparate Magnets, Protracted Type, a collection of visual poetry, and recently, West of Dodge. Along with Crag Hill, he is currently editing The Last Vispo Anthology 1998-2008. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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On the back cover and internet, it is stated that Since 1972 he dedicates to experimental and visual poetry, using the most diversified techniques and supports. Published 9 poetry books, 3 juvenile books and 6 anthologies of Portuguese and International Visual Poetry. Since 1983 participated in more that 100 International Festivals of Performance and Poetry in Portugal, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Holland, Canada, Japan, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, China, Macao, U.S.A., Hong-Kong, Korea, Turkey and Iceland. Organized several exhibitions of visual poetry and Festivals of Poetry and Performance since 1985. In 2005 he created the "Soneto Ecologico", a sonnet measuring 110 x 36 meters, made with 70 trees. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents On the back cover and internet, it is stated that My name is Bill DiMichele. I'm originally from Pennsylvania, and have been doing visual poetry since the late 1970s. My first pieces were typeovers done on an old Smith Corona typewriter. In 1980 I moved to San Francisco where I worked at a graphics company, doing work on the various machines at my disposal, copiers, cameras, vacuum frames, printing presses, etc. I was coeditor of SCORE, magazine for visual poetry, with my friend Crag Hill, 1982-1990. I have been published in an endless number of small press magazines and blogs. I now publish Tip of the Knife (motto -- draw blood or go home). The piece I'm presenting is Fugue Dog The Ecstatic, a treatise on the nature of time and higher consciousness. Bill says: "Fugue Dog the Ecstatic (one who has mystical experiences) is the subject of this series. He uses numerous tools on his quest, from Qabalah ( this spelling used for magick) to the Bible ( Solomon's temple) to the Fourth Way...

Scope and Contents On the back cover and internet, it is stated that Donna Kuhn is the author of nine poetry books and chapbooks. She has published over 400 poems plus visual, sound text, and video poetry in national and international journals both in print and online. In addition to being an author and poet she is an exhibiting visual artist and dancer. She holds a BA degree in Creative Writing from Sonoma State University and has taught poetry and art in nursing homes, retirement centers and outpatient mental health clinics. She lives in Taos, New Mexico. Donna says: "donna kuhn uses her own poetry, found text, collage, drawing and painting in her altered book spreads of visual poetry, mementos, stickers, old drawings, copies of old drawings, old copy art, fancy tape, stencils. Everything is torn, scribbled on, doodled on. pages are punched, torn, folded. a swirling combo of language and image. the pages are then sometimes animated in her dance/poetry videos because everything must be reassembled...

Scope and Contents On the back cover and internet, it is stated that he was born in 1942 in Torino where he still lives. During the 80's he began working on Visual and Sound Poetry and, at the same time, started doing performances usually with Carla Bertola, working on the idea of "Stagepoetry actions". He performed widely in Italy and different countries. In Visual Poetry he usually works on collages following a personal technique obtaining color from the surface of paper, a procedure he called "pulling up"; recently he is using blowing up from fragments passing through photos and then laser copies. He has taken part in many exhibitions in Italy and abroad. Since 1978 he is co-editor of the International Poetry Magazine Offerta Speciale. Alberto says: "My works have their origin in a particular kind of collage technique, some fragments of the original works have been photographed and reworked with laser xerox and form the basis for other works. Letters are important for their graphical form but...

Scope and Contents Roman Pyrih is a Ukrainian poet born in 1977. Roman says: "Yurai is Ukrainian poet-palindromist, diplomat and humble student of ancient knowledge. "His experiments with palindromes were inspired and heavily based on Ukrainian palindrome tradition dating back to the texts of mystic Kyiv poet of the XVII century Ivan Velychkovskyi , who is also considered grand contributor to the development of Ukrainian visual poetry. In XX century Ukrainian palindrome was greatly invigorated and brought to a new level by outstanding efforts of renowned masters -- Ivan Iov, Ivan Luchuk, Nazar Gonchar and others. "What distinguishes Yurai's creations is that he gradually departed from palindrome as a text and visualized it as a graphic artwork. This was a natural drift, manifested at first as side effect of illustrating palindrome poems, and gradually evolved into self-sufficient art. This mirroring fusion of symbol, meaning and their graphic interpretation is aimed to complete restless sensory quest...

Scope and Contents Alexander Jorgensen is a writer, visual artist, teacher, and adventurer. He has lived and worked in such disparate places as Germany, the Czech Republic, the Galapagos, China, Kazakhstan, and Oman. His visual poetry and writings have appeared in Van Gogh's Ear, Drunken Boat, Shampoo, Listenlight, Noon: Journal of the Short Poem, Moria, Big Bridge, Sous Rature, and The Return of Kral Majales: Prague's International Literary Renaissance 1990-2010. His visual poems have been exhibited in Toronto, Atlanta, Moscow, Prague, and at the 2011 Text Festival in Manchester, UK. He was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2008. Alexander says of his work: "It is hybrid, combining aspects of analogue and digital design. Each poem manifests its own appearance. My work is influenced by extensive travel as well as my underlying values. What's most important to me as I construct a visual poem is that it shows intention, that I am saying, "Here we are.'" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth...

Scope and Contents Joel Chace has published work in print and electronic magazines such as 6ix, The Tip of the Knife, Counterexample Poetics, OR, Country Music, Infinity's Kitchen, and Jacket. He has published more than a dozen print and electronic collections, most recently Sharpsburg, from Cy Gist Press, and Blake's Tree, from Blue & Yellow Dog Press. Individual pages of this visual poetry sequence have appeared in the following publications: On Barcelona, quarter after, and Word For/Word. The cover image, entitled itsstory 3, originally appeared in Lettere Grosse. Joel says: "Its story is a developing sequence of texto-visual poetry that I began a decade or more ago and that has taken on various lives since then. Until this year, all of the versions have been textual only, though all of them have been quite experimental in terms of formatting. It finally occurred to me that the very subject matter of the sequence demanded an even more radical visual presentation. Perhaps radical musicality is...

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Growing up, I had an interest in both anatomy & the arts. This is a collection that overlaps those interests on the page as field/canvas. Found scraps, old photographs, medical illustrations & texts overlap & intertwine to create these verbo-visual anatomical landscapes. We speak with our bodies; here the silent/still images speak back to us. Andrew Topol has identified himself as the author/artist of this book using his mother's maiden name and photograph. Topol is planning to create different style works using new nom de plumes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The two neologisms mentioned in this article [August 5, 2012] are "Exterience" (To see a personal event from a spectator's point of view) and "Feeligitimate" (unable to trust one'd own instincts). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.