Thanks for posting it, Sheila. I just posted it, myself. Looks like another case of great minds thinking alike.
Best,
Vernon
Sheila Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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 av! ailable from *Beneath the
> Underground* 568 Brittany L, Delray Beach, FL, 33446
>
>
>
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