Friday, March 26, 2021

Jim Leftwich Reacts to "American Apparell" by Kristine Snodgrass & the AF2 "Femmeglitch Fatale" Review


A femmeglitch noir by Kristine Snodgrass


Dear De Villo Sloan,

I am just now reading the Asemic Front 2 review of American Apparell by Kristine Snodgrass.

https://asemicfront2.blogspot.com/2021/02/femmeglitch-fatale-asemic-front-2.html

It makes me happy to see work developed under the umbrella of “asemic writing” circling back towards its origins in content-driven text/image poetry. This is important work, a textbook for teaching the true arc of our complexly current moment in the asemic movement. The personal is political and the political is polysemic. 

As Kristine Snodgrass writes, “The glitch reimagines the language, dissecting it and rearranging it in the spirit of asemics. Or pansemic. Or abstract.” This approach identifies asemic writing as one component among many in the ever-expanding constellation of experimental/innovative/difficult/restless poetries.

It may be difficult to find “news that stays news” in the field of asemic writing, but this looks to me exactly like that rarity, which is exactly what we need in our ongoing quest for clarity in this context.


- Jim Leftwich

February 28, 2021



Vispo by Jim Leftwich (Courtesy of MinXus-LynXus Archives)






Vispo by Jim Leftwich (Courtesy of MinXus-LynXus Archives)






Vispo by Jim Leftwich (Courtesy of MinXus-LynXus Archives)











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