Nihon Zettels

by Lanny Quarles

Here's what Alan Sondheim said about it at the

Lanny Quarles (solipsis) has created/written/produced/configured Nihon
Zettels; he was kind enough to send me a copy to read. The review is my
own idea.

I think for anyone interested in the literature of this (not _that_)
century, this book is essential. I'm fascinated by the palimpsest or
palimcestual organization / organicism of the whole - but I'm also
fascinated on its deep reading of medieval and pre-medieval Japan and
gaijin phenomenology - both in relation to the eternal. For it's eternity,
I think, that's at stake here. There are various languages within it as
well as languagings, and what I consider to be stele-texts, matched in
format by the book - texts which begin and end and open up kabbalah-worlds
and words in the midst of others.

There are positionings of male and female, demiurge and Noh, classifica-
tions and lists, broken syntactics, shattered and reassembled mythologies.
The text is astute, almost schizzed at times, but its open worlds are the
poetics of infinity; Bachelard would have loved it.

I worry constantly that works of this quality - and I'd include other work
here - Joel Weishaus' or mez' absolutely brilliant web/write\rite/lit for
example - will be lost, ignored, bypassed in terms of critical or even
canonic acceptance. The world - and the world of distribution - are both
becoming increasingly porous - it's easier than ever to find these works
and absorb them, offline and online, self-published and universally
published.

Get this book!

Here was my

Titled after Arno Schmidt's magnum opus _Zettels Traum_ (Notes Dream),
Lanny Quarles' Nihon Zettels Traum is a samizdat email-list series carried
out on Wryting-L transfered to paper. Including all and some repeats of
the original series of emails written after the author had returned from
Japan. The author sought to re-immerse himself in the wonder and
strangeness of his first visit to japan via the internet. Interspersed
with bits of sampled literatures both of web and non-web origin, the
author freely improvised and remixed to create a perplexing and
"informatic free jazz" interpretation of his journey to and back from the
land of Nihon.

55 pages, 11X17 Bound Xerox

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

I am a writer and Visual Artist.


Lanny Ray Quarles

Born 1967 Wichita Falls, Tx

EDUCATION

Midwestern State University
University of Texas at Arlington
Heald College, AAS Electronics, 1998
Autodidact




PUBLICATIONS

Voices, student poetry and literature magazine, 1987, “The Motorcycles of Old Tangier”

Toenail Gazook, 1990’s, one of a kind hand-made books sold through Factsheet 5 magazine, and at Reading Frenzy, and traded for other artist’s books through mail.

Pink, Gus Van Sant, Doubleday, 1997, my writing is the script written by one of the characters in Gus Van Sant’s first novel.

“Sargasso and Spandex”, “Youngblood’s Court de Walg”, Eyes Monthly, Issue I, September, 2006

“The Specificity of Dreams..”, Wegway No 4, Fall 2002

“Masque of the Read Death(po)..”, images and writing, XTANT4, anabasis.xtant 2004

Austrian magazine Perspektive's feature avantgarde / under / net / conditions:
“____Bliss Language”, translated into German, perspektive 43 + 44, 2002
“form miming meaning”, published under the name Solipsis, perspektive 42, 2001-2002

Untitled concrete prose, XTANT3, anabasis xtant, 2003

“redbon”, “volgarestornelli”, Whitewall of Sound Number 35, Northwest Concrete & Visual Poetry, CD, edited by Nico Vassilakis

“’Zakki-Cho’ in Tree.” Lost and Found Times, No. 50, May 2003

“PEACETALKSATURNALIA (made to rest in the petalcalco)”, Poems for Peace, structum press, 2003

“Tangled Networks and Wrong Numbers”, Cyanobacteria International, Espoo, Finland, 1994

“Tzadik to Golem, Come in Golem!”, “The Black Pineapple SS”,
Abraham Lincoln #1

“The Radiation of the Golden Armor of the Werewolf Knights (The Curse of Waldemar of Oregon)”, Shampoo, A Poetry Magazine, Issue 27, http://www.shampoopoetry.com/ShampooT...

"veracious mirrored war woe", Big Bridge, Issue 12, http://www.bigbridge.org/deathlquarle...

“Redistribution of Emerson's Brahma”, Milk Magazine, http://www.milkmag.org/quarles7.html

Realpoetik

“Untitled”, Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness E-Journal
Volume 1: No. 3, 2003, http://www.wickedness.net/ejv1n3/quar...

Several poems spotlighted on Leevi Lehto's Get a Google Poem

Various Issues of Florian Cramer’s Unstable Digest as performed on
the NETTIME e-mailing list.
“My Eye Is a Twisted Skinless Dolphin Lyre”, The Hamiltonstone Review http://www.hamiltonstone.org/hsr9poet...

DIGITAL ARTWORK PUBLICATIONS

“shunned publicity”, digital collage, Word for Word a jounal of new writing #3, Winter 2003, http://www.wordforword.info/vol3/Quar...

Selection of 10 digital collages, The Internation Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction, http://collagemuseum.com/lannyquarles...


“Iconspace”, Black Ice Magazine on Alt-X
http://www.altx.com/profiles/archives...

Apotropaic Series #1 Black Ice Magazine, (non-functional)
http://www.altx.com/profiles/archives...

“Cadmon”, “Bopp1”, “XX1A”, “Cusanos”, “Kekule”, “Ukol”, Extreme Graphics, edited by Kathleen Ziegler and Nick Greco, Dimensional Illustrators, Inc., 1998

“theredsheep”, Cover Design & CD Design (uncredited), Northwest Edge The End of Reality,Chiasmus Press, Portland, 2005

Mail art project contributor, Spoliations involving deliberate destruction or alternation of a document, January 2003

“chaonamevispo”, Spidertangle the book: a coincidental miscellany of now vispo, Xexoxial Editions 2002

Wegway No 5, Spring 2003, found web image and textual manipulation

Asemic Magazine 3, Australia, 2004, asemic writing

“Codon 13”, “Green X”, The Little Magazine, 2006, animated gif images using various digital technologies.

The Little Magazine
http://www.albany.edu/~litmag/work/cu...