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Presenting fine works of poetry, fiction, text art, visual poetry and arresting works of creative non-fiction written by authors from around world

BlazeVOX12 Fall 2012

Hello and welcome to the fall issue of BlazeVOX 12. Presented here is a world-class issue featuring poetry, art, fiction, and an arresting work of creative non-fiction, written by authors from around globe.

We are continuing our new section in the journal, Book Previews, which as the name describes it is a brief look at some of our new book titles. You will find work from Aaron Apps, Paul T. Hogan, Kristina Marie Darling, Ken Warren, Ben Bedard, Jared Schickling and many others. This is truly a special issue of BlazeVOX. And if you are so moved, please take a tour of our online bookshop. We have 300 titles of weird little books available for sale. So hurray, now get reading!

To highlight our vast catalog of great books, we are now going to offer a special each week on two selected great titles and we will be offering them for half off the cover price. Will be selecting new authors and titles each week, so stop on by and add one to your shopping cart before you check out. You’ll be sure to enjoy each of these books! Hurray!

Hurray again, and thank you all for your kind support! I am so very happy to be working at BlazeVOX [books] and I am looking forward to a whole new year cooking for Big Night. Cheers to you, and wishing us all a very quiet fall semester :-)

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Rockets, Geoffrey

Geoffrey Gatza
Editor & Publisher
BlazeVOX [books]

IntroductionIntroduction

In this issue we seek to avoid answers but rather to ask questions. With a subtle minimalistic approach, this issue of BlazeVOX focuses on the idea of ‘public space’ and more specifically on spaces where anyone can do anything at any given moment: the non-private space, the non-privately owned space, space that is economically uninteresting. The works collected feature coincidental, accidental and unexpected connections, which make it possible to revise literary history and, even, better, to complement it.

Combining unrelated aspects lead to surprising analogies these piece appear as dreamlike images in which fiction and reality meet, well-known tropes merge, meanings shift, past and present fuse. Time and memory always play a key role. In a search for new methods to ‘read the city’, the texts reference post-colonial theory as well as the avant-garde or the post-modern and the left-wing democratic movement as a form of resistance against the logic of the capitalist market system.

Many of the works are about contact with architecture and basic living elements. Energy (heat, light, water), space and landscape are examined in less obvious ways and sometimes develop in absurd ways. By creating situations and breaking the passivity of the spectator, he tries to develop forms that do not follow logical criteria, but are based only on subjective associations and formal parallels, which incite the viewer to make new personal associations. These pieces demonstrate how life extends beyond its own subjective limits and often tells a story about the effects of global cultural interaction over the latter half of the twentieth century. It challenges the binaries we continually reconstruct between Self and Other, between our own ‘cannibal’ and ‘civilized’ selves. Enjoy!

Rockets! Geoffrey Gatza, editor

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