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cloak
visual collaborations by john m. bennett & andrew topel
20 pages, Paperback
First published March 13, 2010
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March 26, 2010
The asemic writing of Andrew Topel has wowed me before. His online portfolios of VVIISSIIOONNSS and wrEYEtings have dazzled my mind with their intricate complexities and the care that Topel seems to exert into every one of his asemic pieces or visual poems. With "cloak," he combines literary forces with an equally obsessive, dangerous, and brilliant individual John M. Bennett in order to beautifully distort and reanimate English language with the disguise of asemia. Words such as "movable," "necessary," "steam," "wick," "expert," "chant," "hermit," and "Revolution," amongst numerous others, are issued new meaning and/or stripped of their previous definitions before being joined together in elaborate and alien synergies of texts, symbols, hieroglyphics, xenolinguistics, and scribbles. Andrew Topel and John M. Bennett's "cloak" accentuates the visibility of writing rather than hides it, and it is a must-read piece for any enthusiast of asemic writing.
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