Pre-release comments on Red Slider's N O G U C H I

What they said: "…a remarkable and intriguing hypertext collection… a set to revisit time and again, each time discovering a fresh insight." -- Peter Howard, poet, speaker on hypertext literature and columnist for the UK's 'Poetry Review'. *** "Red Slider crafts a report on our fragment from elsewhere, wanders us through reassembly instructions… brings us the poetry of impossibilities." -- Dennis Gaughan, editor of Poetry Café. *** "Red Slider's Noguchi Collection contains both clarity and challenge. Slider blends (quite brilliantly) myth, legend, image, and text. 'Noguchi' expands the possibilities of artistic precision. In Slider's poetry, Art becomes an 'activity' instead of a fact and his collection leaves us with the exquisite taste of blended sense and rigorous insight…he collides with the world around him, he illuminates the reader's path." -- Janet Buck *** "Red Slider's Noguchi takes full advantage of hypertext possibilities in its reflections on sculptor and designer, Isamu Noguchi. Links to pages on Noguchi's life and works enrich Red's poems and provide context for them. I'm particularly fascinated by his 'textumorphs,' a six-column compositing of short, even fragmentary, lines which can be read in several directions. This work advances the creative possibilities of hyperpoetry." -- Gene Doty, poetry editor, "Recursive Angel". *** "Red Slider's poetry and media-poetry never fail to lead into unexpected pathways…arresting, artful, playful, and profound at once… extend the boundaries of the poetic, … Marvelous!" -- Claire R. Farrer, Professor of Anthropology, California State University-Chico. *** "…an uncommonly keen sense of nature, myth and history…his best work…the great metaphor for his own time and place… language poetry that astonishes with refreshing wickedly adventurous wordplay…the courage and vision of a revolutionary at work." -- Ernest Slyman, manager of 'Reverie', the Plexus/Guggenheim chalkboard for poetry on the web. *** ". . .[a] unique approach to mixed media lit.. . . I'll return often to the lookscape of Mars and the Duchampesque instruction in textumorphics. His work is welcome relief from the lack of substance one often finds in other progressive forms such as hypertext." Mike Neff, Editor-in-chief, Web Del Sol. *** "I met Red Slider in late October last year through an exchange over the internet. He had written in response to a short poem I had placed at Poetry Express. The first of his work I saw included two sections of a series about the Japanese-American sculpture Isamu Noguchi "'Embracing' and 'Entering the Stone' ["Stone Above, Sky Below"] struck me immediately. I wrote back that when I saw his lines in 'Embracing' I woke up sharply. I know of no other words which express the feeling, the reaction a viewer has to the work of Noguchi. He wrote: Place stone, so. "Spare, exact, and intense. The perfection of Noguchi's surfaces seemed reflected here in words." "Later, in 'Enter the Stone' Red put into words exactly what can be seen in a Noguchi carving." watch inste the myri ad rocks O' Noguchi what springs from nowhere? the barbed wire horizons cut through rock stretched over stone heart across torn edges of those lives the horizon's eyes twin suns rising, setting washes ciliates, silicates moss marks on cold stone a shadow lengthened; home, where is that? On ground spun from black embryo pools they clutch at the breast of earth as if thirsting "Here the lovely alliteration, open spaced lines, and double entendre in the word 'springs' give the reader or the viewer a beautifully felt look at the work of Isamu Noguchi." -- Sam Grolmes, poet and professor of Japanese Languages, California State University - San Mateo; translator of the poems of Ryuichi Tamura, author of Moon Poems, After Oshkosh, and 1 2 Kitanzono.

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