Author
sensory deprivation / dream poetics
Poetry and visual poetry by damian lopesAlcuin Award for Book Design, 2000
Electronic Edition: ‹sensory.damianlopes.com›
Designed by Bitwalla Design.
Launched 1998.
128 pages, paper, ISBN 1-55425-020-1
Coach House Books, Toronto, 2000.
First edition of 500 copies.
Designed and set by Bitwalla Design.
Printed and bound in Canada 2000.
At long last, this double-barrelled collection of visual poetry, sensory deprivation and dream poetics, by damian lopes is now in print. Considered visual essays by the author, sensory deprivation explores the visual noise and overload of contemporary culture, while dream poetics offers an argument for a poetics in this culture. The print book is the companion to the online edition.
Reviews
track marks of information scar the arms and our retinas are etched with a film of headlines. sensory deprivation is an exploratory surgery and biopsy of language – a medical search for the nested growths of text under the skin where ‘every word implies the absence of every other word’.– derek beaulieu, fillingStation
Lopes blends more traditional-looking poems (found in portions of Sensory Deprivation / Dream Poetics) with a number of visual techniques: photo and digitally enhanced collage, found schematics, popular print media, graphemic decimations and dissemblages. The thematics are wide ranging as well: far from merely fetishizing the physicality of language, Lopes here investigates language, body, and machine as a kind of technological nexus. Indeed the book amounts to something of a compendium of current possibilities for visual poetics.
– Tom Orange, raintaxi.com