John M. Bennett
Wipe, say
bee f sa g m eat cha ser
mucoid g nat s you say the no
the one the s lab pummeled of
f yr flace me al tried to b
oil ah c loud dr um hum g l
eaking on yr e ye yr !)aY
One g one
cho re nor c humps no r gaseous s
pinning ack yr p home gut the tem p
tree an drizzle .s tongue c raw
p endulactic ,f ame s norer whot you
s cold or w ashed that bleaving ?s
o re active ,los t the sing le "ling"
O or
s hape or s hot o r s hift or s hame
eloid con trap tion s loping to
ward the h oop h eel o s lung
ster c raving !b ook a stew
fuel ,dun g f ame c latters a
t he shing le soaking you reta in
Sil encio
yr be ast nor .c lothes c ramp oh
nod try sting f art the lam p w
hat gel id light g rasps wh at
chee se d rift .c rashed an
b leeped ,yr c re w l ister b laze
d a way the ver y wor d en crisp !
John M. Bennett has published over 250 books and chapbooks of poetry and other materials. Among the most recent are rOlling COMBers (Potes & Poets Press), MAILER LEAVES HAM (Pantograph Press), LOOSE WATCH (Invisible Press), CHAC PROSTIBULARIO (with Ivan Arguelles; Pavement Saw Press), HISTORIETAS ALFABETICAS (Luna Bisonte Prods), PUBLIC CUBE (Luna Bisonte Prods), THE PEEL (Anabasis Press), GLUE (xPress(ed)), LAP GUN CUT (with F. A. Nettelbeck; Luna Bisonte Prods), INSTRUCTION BOOK (Luna Bisonte Prods), la M al (Blue Lion Books), CANTAR DEL HUFF (Luna Bisonte Prods), and SOUND DIRT (with Jim Leftwich; Luna Bisonte Prods). He has published, exhibited and performed his word art worldwide in thousands of publications and venues. He was editor and publisher of LOST AND FOUND TIMES (1975-2005), and is Curator of the Avant Writing Collection at The Ohio State University Libraries. Richard Kostelanetz has called him “the seminal American poet of my generation”. His work, publications, and papers are collected in several major institutions, including Washington University (St. Louis), SUNY Buffalo, The Ohio State University, The Museum of Modern Art, and other major libraries.
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Wipe, say
bee f sa g m eat cha ser
mucoid g nat s you say the no
the one the s lab pummeled of
f yr flace me al tried to b
oil ah c loud dr um hum g l
eaking on yr e ye yr !)aY
One g one
cho re nor c humps no r gaseous s
pinning ack yr p home gut the tem p
tree an drizzle .s tongue c raw
p endulactic ,f ame s norer whot you
s cold or w ashed that bleaving ?s
o re active ,los t the sing le "ling"
O or
s hape or s hot o r s hift or s hame
eloid con trap tion s loping to
ward the h oop h eel o s lung
ster c raving !b ook a stew
fuel ,dun g f ame c latters a
t he shing le soaking you reta in
Sil encio
yr be ast nor .c lothes c ramp oh
nod try sting f art the lam p w
hat gel id light g rasps wh at
chee se d rift .c rashed an
b leeped ,yr c re w l ister b laze
d a way the ver y wor d en crisp !
John M. Bennett has published over 250 books and chapbooks of poetry and other materials. Among the most recent are rOlling COMBers (Potes & Poets Press), MAILER LEAVES HAM (Pantograph Press), LOOSE WATCH (Invisible Press), CHAC PROSTIBULARIO (with Ivan Arguelles; Pavement Saw Press), HISTORIETAS ALFABETICAS (Luna Bisonte Prods), PUBLIC CUBE (Luna Bisonte Prods), THE PEEL (Anabasis Press), GLUE (xPress(ed)), LAP GUN CUT (with F. A. Nettelbeck; Luna Bisonte Prods), INSTRUCTION BOOK (Luna Bisonte Prods), la M al (Blue Lion Books), CANTAR DEL HUFF (Luna Bisonte Prods), and SOUND DIRT (with Jim Leftwich; Luna Bisonte Prods). He has published, exhibited and performed his word art worldwide in thousands of publications and venues. He was editor and publisher of LOST AND FOUND TIMES (1975-2005), and is Curator of the Avant Writing Collection at The Ohio State University Libraries. Richard Kostelanetz has called him “the seminal American poet of my generation”. His work, publications, and papers are collected in several major institutions, including Washington University (St. Louis), SUNY Buffalo, The Ohio State University, The Museum of Modern Art, and other major libraries.
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