Asemic Writing: Poetic Structures

Published at LULU.com and available on Amazon, Barns and Noble, and anywhere fine books are sold. ISBN: 9781794786301

These poems are created by using vernacular sources for materials such as restaurant receipts, poetic structures Touchon made with spam email, pages of lists from magazines as palimpsests to then overwrite the texts on the pages using the existing texts as prompts for his asemic writing. Touchon also used various authors’ poems whose structures he liked in the same way by printing out the poems on white sheets and then overwriting the texts. Some of the poets included e. e. commings, David Drew and Vito Acconti, documents from Sigmund Freud, some pages from Mathematical Manuscripts of Karl Marx, etc. In short, any sort of page composition that Touchon could exploit with the use of asemic writing.

Once over written and scanned, and the images cleaned up and reduced to black and white for printing purposes, some of the digital images were then manipulated by doing things like mirroring the image such as the examples below.

Samples of pages from the book

Originally published at http://ceciltouchon.blogspot.com.

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