John M. Bennett


Tumbling Lac

chub me crisp ,mondled in the basement

my club crisp an toweling hole

your blaze hole glrunting ash

email ash and howling (cliff)

the cliff hug you numbered

hug your final hair your air

drift and way ,hair mine ,cglue

fondle lac an drift nut an sore

fumble the peas an lac stroker

misto peas tumbling through the light

brought your gash through )nest(

nest to me ,cglim ,stlopping head

stlopping raft the tune hint

cough it up ,the raft rings ,fork

your itch fork rustles in the sloup

mud ,sloup ,crystal ,nattering

red mud flavor ,sorna dip

dip your housing chub an mustle



Sheet Bundle

bundle hant uhn jooter slept against in

blot dance jooter hunda one nor phone

black the phone oil silder in ah noose

noose leak ,dang shiner ,ham brant cock

nope nor was ,hump leak decking ,airy hall

braid the hall lens clacking in sum breeze

name the nuttered breeze or sleeve grit

whatta grit lousy amper sand and splinter

“splinter” useless snore an off the clampoline

lutter useless huh was “useless”? ...drift...

estrus drift or bond yr blond leg flaker

file the estrus that ,ape ahead ,clumpy east

drummy ape an cubic slot an dipper stun )stun

my( slept outside the strumming sheet




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John M. Bennett has published over 300 books and chapbooks of poetry and other materials. Among the most recent are rOlling COMBers (Potes & Poets Press), MAILER LEAVES HAM (Pantograph Press), LOOSE WATCH (Invisible Press), CHAC PROSTIBULARIO (with Ivan Arguelles; Pavement Saw Press), HISTORIETAS ALFABETICAS (Luna Bisonte Prods), PUBLIC CUBE (Luna Bisonte Prods), THE PEEL (Anabasis Press), GLUE (xPress(ed)), LAP GUN CUT (with F. A. Nettelbeck; Luna Bisonte Prods), INSTRUCTION BOOK (Luna Bisonte Prods), la M al (Blue Lion Books), CANTAR DEL HUFF (Luna Bisonte Prods), SOUND DIRT (with Jim Leftwich; Luna Bisonte Prods), and BACKWORDS (Blue Lion Books), NOS (Redfox Press), D RAIN B LOOM (with Scott Helmes; xPress(ed)), and CHANGDENTS (Offerta Speciale). He has published, exhibited and performed his word art worldwide in thousands of publications and venues. He was editor and publisher of LOST AND FOUND TIMES (1975-2005), and is Curator of the Avant Writing Collection at The Ohio State University Libraries. Richard Kostelanetz has called him “the seminal American poet of my generation”. His work, publications, and papers are collected in several major institutions, including Washington University (St. Louis), SUNY Buffalo, The Ohio State University, The Museum of Modern Art, and other major libraries. His PhD (UCLA 1970) is in Latin American Literature.