Michael Basinski


Bio:
Michael Basinski is the curator of The Poetry Collection State University of New York at Buffalo. He performs his work as a solo poet and in ensemble with the EBMA and his own group, BuffFluxus.

Among his many books of poetry are Heka (Factory School); Strange Things Begin to Happen When a Meteor Crashes in the Arizona Desert (Burning Press); The Idyllic Book (Michel Letko, Houston, Texas); Mool, Mool3Ghosts and Shards of Shampoo (Bob Cobbing's Writers Forum); Cnyttan and Heebie-Jeebies (Meow Press); By and The Doors (House Press); Un-Nome, Red Rain Two, Abzu and Flight to the Moon (Run Away Spoon Press): Poemeserss (Structum Press) and many more. Some are available at Small Press Distribution.

For additional information and sound files see:

RadioRadio on http://www.ubu.com (see Basinski and BuffFluxus)

http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/lakeaffect/

http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/basinski/

His visual poetry is variously on the web. See ubuweb and:

http://www.xpressed.org/

http://www.errataandcontradiction.org

see also:

Abacus No. 128
Xerolage No. 31 aka Entrails

See also Basinski section in: http://www.muse-apprentice-guild.com

His poems and other works have appeared in Dandelion, BoxKite, Antennae, Unbearables Magazine, Open Letter, Torgue, Leopold Bloom, Wooden Head Review, Basta, Kiosk, Explosive Magazine, Deluxe Rubber Chicken, First Offense, Terrible Work, Juxta, Kenning, Witz, Lungfull, Lvng, Generator, Tinfish, Curicule Patterns, Score, Unarmed, Rampike, First Intensity, House Organ, Ferrum Wheel, End Note, Ur Vox and many, many others.



Poems:

Nocturnip

Nut, he undresses nun
Undresses under her undue
Stones his stones nauseaous
Insects, red, centipedes, seas,
Pill bugs, anteater peas deficient
Such butter defiant fish
Swallows love's bee, buns
Against her witch contains seeds
Sea no seam Niagara Spray Starch
Separable globular
Tendril-bearing Del Monte's corn Nibits
Yellow monoecious flowers were
Hot, arid, sandy watermelons
Moons of yellow moons
Red moons of moons
Calm twinkling ing Asia minor
Adoration of June Assumption
Mim mum May


X-RAY-MAY

Her hair glence dweell and ashes
mmoonmen crowded at the end of the(air)ir earth
or branches superficial naTURe applied
to thore nuts
utteear Hera
sea sandolls dweels
lung furflames The Beatles
vith tungisis elongated
Pine Seapales
obovate elvtear


TOE PUT HER PTAH

Speech wol
poesie on the tong elf
an'oof of mirrorly my stickeled heart,, ,,staples
tong tong minute maid missel
May July whatur uttered\susstained ear with youre
inter(IMPHOR)rrrrrupted
plum ressIdo musiciummm dis-ease feathers
moi fingers ov St. Teresea
T(horns hug about
this heart of a horse in thrones
knowwn commonly as buttoe cups
their juices, colorless, coffee
and sleeping oil O-cats
blertering blistering blessingtering
beggUrs egg and pawn shops


POLISHED POTATOES CHIP

To foma jelly
origin cats passing through muslin
and digestive tract rosin fiddles cyst fixed
anhydride bison witch
upon moonscales
emmerlins snow white!
wature agar-agar
decomposing acetyl music
yellowish yellow
yellow very light pow deer
soluble insoluble
yellow light bulbs
church party chicken
bingo chips intestinaltuberculosis
mmemory and catarrhal yellow
and the yellow ulcerative process


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