Seismosis

Featuring line-drawings by Stackhouse & poems-as-essays by Keene-handed back and forth and back, written and rewritten, drawn and redrawn-SEISMOSIS penetrates the common ground between writing/literature and drawing/visual art, creating a revisioned landscape where much of the work is abstract or abstracted or both. The multiform agreements the texts & the drawings make, from a brilliant & decisive center, are revolutionary, antilinear, and highly responsive. SEISMOSIS is a formal experience. The result is a highly sophisticated call-and-response affair. A pioneer occasion, in which two African-American artists have collaborated on a book of this nature, weaving a cohesive study of abstraction in both poetry and drawing, SEISMOSIS was originally printed in chapbook form as a limited edition, fine-arts publication by The Center for Book Arts in 2003.Keene, John is the author of 'Seismosis', published 2006 under ISBN 9780977935109 and ISBN 0977935108.