Touchon's works are constructed from distressed street posters that have been carefully edited...almost become recognizable letters or perhaps proposals for a new poetic alphabet but always slip back into forms and spaces...
By using nothing but the figure/ground relationships of letters, engaging and powerful pieces are built up through a process that is less reminiscent of collage than it is of burnishing, worrying, plying, or even kneading.
Personism "was founded by me after lunch with LeRoi Jones." & "At times when I would rather be dead the thought that I could never write another poem has so far stopped me."
a poet uses fragments to imitate and so to make an assertion about the nature of human perception: perception consists of fragments, fragments are what we assemble into meaningful wholes...giving haibun a sense of immediacy...
I think we're in the ghost-town whorehouse in Blackhawk. Under one roof ..........sleeping with all of them -- ....................bush clover, poker chips.
We could shut the door / on this vertigo, but Mother when we / come to ourselves our feet skim the tiles./ Spoons shine on the table, and Mother, / we're dancing. I'm mouthing the words / to a song I never knew...
Poetry Chaikana (sacred poetry from Sufi, Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, Muslim, Christian, and other traditions); Sakya Monastary Vlogs: Tibetan Buddhism's practice of Chenrezig; Zencast (seeds of happiness); Audio Dharma...