Saturday, August 12, 2023
Tuesday, June 27, 2023
Jim Leftwich Public Displays of Affection
available from LULU
This unique book, written while the author and his wife have been moving around the Western USA, is full of references to place names, and flora and fauna of California, which reminds one of Californian writing of the 1960's, when poets, beats, and hippies were hanging out in places like Big Sur, Bolinas, Venice, and San Francisco. That resonance brings a level of lyricism to Leftwich’s work. But his writing is very different from those halcyon days, though there is a similarity in the attention paid to common moments and things, a Zen-like attitude. But here, words are often juxtaposed with little apparent semantic relationship, making for phrases and lines that create multiple possibilities of meaning and resonance. In Part One of this book especially, each of Leftwich’s “stanzas” are separate poems/worlds/perceptions/ and each rewards attention. They are not “thought", but mirrors of attention, blank minds open - not like the Californian 1960's at all, where such things were talked about but not manifested so much. Leftwich manifests that kind of mind, as in a classical Japanese Haiku sequence. It requires a kind of open and shifting attention of the reader, an attention that does not include any kind of searching for facile instructions about how to live. It is, rather, documentation of an acceptance and exploration of the relationship between mind and world.
Friday, February 10, 2023
marco giovenale -- “asemics. sense without meaning” (ikonalíber): hints of history and theory of asemic writing
“asemics. sense without meaning” (ikonalíber): hints of history and theory of asemic writing

http://www.ikona.net/marco-giovenale-asemics-senso-senza-significato/
cover image: Paul Klee, Abstract Writing
The book is in print / The book is in print
Testo in lingua italiana / Text in Italian
With images by / With images by
Rosaire Appel , Anneke Baeten , May Bery , Marcia Brauer , Axel Calatayud , Cecelia Chapman , Tim Gaze , Ariel González Losada , Michael Jacobson , Satu Kaikkonen , Paul Klee , Karri Kokko , Jim Leftwich , Arturo Martini , John McConnochie , Miriam Midley , Stephen Nelson , Laura Ortiz , Ekaterina Samigulina/ Tae Ateh , Lucinda Sherlock , Jay Snodgrass , Lina Stern , Miron Tee , Cecil Touchon
—> you can pre-order it here / pre-order the book here <—
Back cover :
This sequence of annotations, beyond any hypothesis of exhaustion , proposes a possible itinerary through the history of the expressions "asemic writing" (or "asemantic" or "desemantic") and "asemic writing"; and furthermore it offers some elements of theory which configure the identity of this artistic practice as «a machine of disorganization and disintegration of meaning by means of sense itself.
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Blurb :
This sequence of annotations, beyond any hypothesis of exhaustion , draws a possible itinerary through the historyof the expressions “scrittura asemica” (or “asemantica” [asemantic] or “desemantizzata” [“desemantized”]) and “asemic writing”; and also offers some theoretical elements that configure the identity of this artistic practice as «a machine of disorganization and disintegration of meaning by means of sense itself»
More information here / more infos here:
http://www.ikona.net/marco-giovenale-asemics-senso-senza-significato/
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Monday, August 08, 2022
desemantized writing in the journals of allen ginsberg and william burroughs / jim leftwich. summer 2022
Monday, January 24, 2022
fluxus pea island 2007
Labels: 2007, fluxus, jim leftwich, pea island, Recluse Theater
jim leftwich, workspace, 1512 Mountainside Ct, 2005
Labels: 1512 Mountainside Ct, 2005, jim leftwich, workspace
Saturday, January 22, 2022
pansemic playhouse 1460
Labels: 2017, asemia, asemic writing, collaged stamps, conceptual asemia, cut-ups, jim leftwich, pansemic playhouse
pansemic playhouse 1461
Labels: 2017, jim leftwich, pansemic playhouse, vispo, visual poetry
pansemic playhouse 1462
Labels: 2017, desemantized writing, Dubuffet, emprientes, jim leftwich, pansemic playhouse, pareidolia
pansemic playhouse 1463
Labels: 2017, asemantic writing, collage, jim leftwich, pansemic playhouse, vispo
pansemic playhouse 1464
Labels: 2017, collage poem, cut-ups, jim leftwich, letteral & gestural, pansemic playhouse, quasi-calligraphic
The Last Pansemic Playhouse #1465
Labels: 2017, jim leftwich, pansemic playhouse, visual poetry
Sunday, January 16, 2022
jim leftwich, a page from No Such Thing As Repetition (2001)
jim leftwich
Death Text Book 8 (2003)
When bears prevail Take ___ breath (microbooks, 2011)
Pixies----Calcium (2010)
Things Rescued From Eternal Nonexistence (2001)
No Such Thing As Repetition (2001)
WHAT (1996)
turtle fish sun flower. cat kite beetle boat. (2001)
noodle had (2001)
quasi-letteral anti-calligraphy (2011)
mead memo (2007)
mead memo (2004-2007)
mead memo (2002-2006)
mead memo (2006)
Labels: 2001, 3-chord linguistics, asemic texts, asemic writing, desemantized writing, historiography, jim leftwich, micropress publishing, ongoing research, visual poetry
fragments in hand pansemic playhouse 278 04.09.12
Labels: 2012, jim leftwich, ongoing research, pansemic playhouse