Poetry. The new collaboration project of Maria Damon and mIEKAL aND, PLEASURE TEXT POSSESSION is another stunning example of what the poets call "interwriting." This piece allows for the poets to "continue each other's sentences, adding and twisting, disrupting and elaborating each other's words from inside the structure of the sentence"--Maria Damon. They havepreviously collaborated on various hypertexts and interactive poetry.

Poetry. "What would happen if words, disguised as characters Balboa Pettibone and She-singer, could hallucinate and time travel? mIEKAL aND, one of our most intrepid verbal explorers, takes us into the world of genre fiction and sets it spinning into an 'irreality' as iridescent as myth clothed in neon language. The sideways feints and flourishes of aND's words lead us through a minefield of future decay, artfully finding glimmers of beauty and eros even in the most blasted lang-scapes and bone-scrapes. In a world where 'a blackened sky corrupt[s] the horizon,' 'snakes of anger' war with 'snakes of confusion,' and 'there are no curtains between darkness and its opposite,' the beauty of the words themselves offer joy in apocalyptic circumstance. And courtly love wins the day"--Maria Damon.

Collection of visual poems by attendees to the Second Wave festival of writing at Ohio State University in 2002. Edited by mIEKAL aND

Published by Xexoxial Editions. A found english, an alphabet poem, a micro-epic, realism & ambiguity straddling the commonness of the everyday.