John Kinsella (with Ron Sims)
Fremantle Art Centre Press
Western Australia
(c)1998
John Kinsella is the poet. Ron Sims is the visual artist. Together they collaborated on this book with CD. When I saw this on a bookshelf in a local bookstore all I saw was the tiny spine (the little sliver of nothing) but when I pulled it out and looked at it I instantly recognized the name because I saw him read in person several years ago at Georgetown in DC.
I appreciate to multi-disciplinary elements at play with this project.
Listening to the CD enhances and alters the experience of the book entirely. While there is a great focus throughout the recording of the first two poems in the collection. "Death of a Roo Dog" and "The Visitation", the sound experiment that accompanied changes the reading of the text, adding a complexity that is absent when merely reading words on a page. The complexity enhances the experience even with the repetition and looping effects throughout the 31 minutes of sound.
Brilliant.
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