X E R O L A G E   3 8Peter Ciccariello

Imaginal Landscapes

 
by Peter Ciccariello

I can't believe I'm finally seeing all of these images together, resonant families, communalities, Kristeva's chora-chorus! Wonderful! Such original work - these are master-mistress-pieces - their philosophic tendencies ring true, readings and rereadings. I've followed their development just as language murmurs, burbles - their linguistic-paleontologies, infinite and indeterminate depths. Where is the locus of these landscapes? Who are the inscribers? Who are the inscribed?

Alan Sondheim

I wondered how Ciccariello's swirling-colored imaginary would translate into the de-rigueur black-and-white of the magnificent Xerolage series; the results are vertiginously thrilling. Surfaces, pliable and lapidary, inscribed with disoriented fragments of words and alphabetic spasms, collide and interweave in a visual dance of merging and emerging.

Maria Damon

Put on your Alice-in-Wonderland head and dive into these poems. Don't be surprised if you run into Ian Hamilton Finlay and M.C. Escher, and, I swear, Franz Kafka's cockroach (he's a bit shy though), and many others who have enriched our imaginations. These are sensuous lettrist landscapes to inhabit, to help escape the habits we often reside in.

Crag Hill

ISSN 1557-0983    24 pages, 8.5 x 11, digital xerography, $6 includes postage. Subscriptions: 4 issues/$20

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