Beautiful and bravo - I second Nick's motion! Sheila --- Vernon Frazer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Here's Nick Piombino's review from his *fait > accompli* --- > > With this backdrop, the arrival of Vernon Frazer's > monumental *Improvisations* strikes > with the sudden rumble and clap of a thunderbolt, > what Edmund Wilson called *the shock of > recognition.* At 8 and 3/4 inches wide, and 10 and > 3/4 inches tall, the sprawling page layout > comfortably accomodates this enormous 700 page > tome, making this book one of the longest and > largest work yet of visual poetry-combining nearly > every imaginable mesh of print layout and font > styles. One would have to go to a number of books by > Johanna Drucker to find work of comparable > typographical complexity. The constant alternation > of formats makes -Improvisations- the most > pleasurable book to browse I've seen since > Drucker's work and my favoriate classic of the > form, Frank Kuenstler's haunting, hard-to-find > masterpiece, *Lens*. Reading the texts themselves > is also consistently engaging, absorbing and > amusing-Vernon Frazer is a performance poet working > with jazz groups and has published several CD's. As > Geof Huth says in his recent interview, there is a > fascinating overlap between the aural and the > visual in much vispo work, a synaesthetic quality I > find fascinating. My only regret is, having to carry > some groceries home to Brooklyn from my Manhattan > office, a! > long with > Frazer's book (I received it very recently and > wanted to write about it immediately) the book is so > heavy I pulled my back out. But it was worth it! > The book is available from *Beneath the > Underground* 568 Brittany L, Delray Beach, FL, 33446 > > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard.
