Michael Basinski

Tub Bunny Michael Basinski

Self described as "a syndicate of types" Tub Bunny is that and more. It is a breaking of types, of poetry presumptions, of the pretense of projective dictums, of pre-determined language assumptions & LANGUAGE school restrictions. This is verse truly free. It has its predecessors: Rimbaud's "Vowels", e e cummings' language playground, Vachel Lindsay's "aural and temporal experience", Kenneth Patchen's "Orange Bears" and, AND, Albion Moonlight, Keroauc's "broken eggs" of wasted words, and most of all Velimir Khlebnikov's Zangezi (but also his poems of the Russian Civil War that rivaled the Objectivists' precise present of historical fact). Tub Bunny, a book, a real book, of wonder and delight.

Joe Napora