Viz. Inter-Arts: Event

by Roxanne Power

Summary

Poetry. Art. Essays. Fiction. VIZ. EVENT, a one-of-a-kind collection, includes a packet of broadsides. Nearly 100 writers, artists, film-makers, performers & scholars transgress genre boundaries to forge new forms & relationships between the arts. A large-format, beautifully-designed art book with colored pages, each copy includes its own unique set of 9 x 12 broadsides with visuals/text by Kenneth Patchen, Joe Brainard/Ron Padgett, George Hitchcock & others. New & classic work by music/poetry collaborators Michael McClure & Ray Manzarek; NY School collaborators from the 60s on (new work by Bill Berkson & George Schneeman) with Kenneth Koch Transcontinental Poetry tribute (David Antin, Andrei Codrescu, Anne Waldman, more). Archive of recent trans-genre events in Bay Area & UC Santa Cruz (Viz.' home) New Narrative (Robert Gluck, Dodie Bellamy, more); Poet's Theater (Kevin Killian/Brian Kim Stefan); poetry films (Carl Rakosi, Leslie Scalapino, more); poems + paintings (Jerome Rothenberg/Nancy Tobin, more); "political" poetry/poetics (Juliana Spahr, Eileen Myles, more); installation art/poetry (Norma Cole), plus emerging writers & forms. Winner of an IPPY (Independent Publisher Book Award) in the Anthologies category!