Mary Shumway
Konglomerati Press
Gulfport, FL
(c) 1976
I have mentioned this press before, their unique interpretation of the word 'magazine' consisting of a handful of "visual poems" in a paper binder, each poem free and loose for the holding or sending.
I wanted to know if they actually made bound books and I found this hardcover 'chapbook' with poetry by Mary Shumway and calligraphy by Margaret Rigg. It's a beautiful book. Well conceived and executed.
Happy to have it.
Konglomerati Press
Gulfport, FL
(c) 1976
Konglomerati was a magazine of visual poetry, irregularly printed, out of Gulfport, Florida. It billed itself as "visual poetry" but what that most seemed to mean is that it was poems presented on mixed media and their definition of mixed media was "scrap paper".
This is not a chapbook but a small collection of individual pieces of paper with poems on them in a uniquely folded paper folder which I have to say is the most intriguing element to the whole presentation.
