"cisterning turniptip shadow nympfit theology"

-- Michael Basinski


E Dance

by Michael Basinski

The following visual poems were designed to be viewed while listening to the sound track for E Dance, performed by Michael and Natalie Basinski. Click on any thumbnail to for a larger, much more detailed view. Depending on network traffic and your connection speed, the sound will take a few minutes to load.
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Michael Basinski is the Assistant Curator of the Poetry/Rare Books Collection of the University Libraries, SUNY at Buffalo. His work has appeared in hundreds of magazines, and he has published 14 books of poetry. Among his upcoming collections are: HEKA (Meow Press, San Diego) and Strange Things Begin to Happen When a Meteor Crashes in the Arizona Desert (Zygote Press, Cleveland, Ohio).

Natalie Basinski is the editor of Basinski: A Zine of the Arths. She has presented intermedia choral sound presentations and conversational texts in Portugal, New York City and Boston, as well as throughout western New York. She has published both short fiction and poetry in many magazines, and she has published a book titled How the Cat Got Her Fur.





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