BlazeVOX23 Spring 2023

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Hello and welcome to the Spring 2023 issue of BlazeVOX! Presenting fine works of poetry, fiction, text art, visual poetry and arresting works of creative non-fiction written by authors from around world. Do have a look through the links below or browse through the whole issue in our Scribd embedded PDF, which you can download for free and take it with you anywhere on any device. Hurray!

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

Poetry

Poetry Extra Extra

[Anthropophagus/: The Beast, The Savage Land, and The [es]Scapegoat] — henry 7. reneau, jr.:

Polytopic poems — Nathan Whiting

merz.finne — Patrick Quinn

Poems Revised From An Old Notebook— Gao An

Text Art & Vispo

U/X 010-000 — gene-pool judgement — in8 iĐ

3 Concrete Pieces — Nam Hoang Tran

Facets and Apertures – four poems — Rae Diamond

5 Visual Poems — Pamela Miller

7 Visual Poems — Robert Fleming

4 Visual Poems — Serse Luigetti

Fiction

Dan A. Cardoza
Evil Rabbit King

Martin Kleinman
Diablo: The Life and Times of No. 414666

Richard Stimac
Fireflies

Rebecca Lee
The Day After Yesterday

Margaret Adams Birth
The Stranger

P.E. Jones
Life

John Tavares
PREDATORS

Lee Tyler Williams
Rebels of a Neon God

Harlan Yarbrough
The Faire

Carly Lynn Gates
The Fall Line

Ben Umayam
ZSHTWEET Charity

Ethan Goffman
The Return

Anthony Oag
Dark Territory

Mark DeCarteret
from Off Season

Acta Biographia — Author Biographies

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