Saturday, January 02, 2010





a noun sing e·ratio 13 · 2010 · featuring the Alan Halsey interview

with poetry by Laynie Browne, Jill Jones, Jane Adam, Jeff Encke, Joseph F. Keppler, Mark Cunningham, Jadon Rempel, Keith Higginbotham, Anne Fitzgerald, and Halvard Johnson

e·ratio editions e-chaps by Travis Macdonald and Carey Scott Wilkerson

and featuring The Alan Halsey Interview

edited by Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino



Friday, December 18, 2009

Sunday, December 06, 2009

















Cover art by Eddy Burger for Cordite Poetry Review #31, EPIC. To see Eddy Burger's complete set of illustrations, click here.

Cordite 31: EPIC is edited by Ali Alizadeh. Read Ali Alizadeh's excellent editorial, here.

Read my poem, "The Archaeology of Palestine," here.

Cordite Poetry Review is directed by David Prater.


Friday, November 13, 2009

Friday, October 09, 2009








This afternoon I had the pleasure of visiting at Granary Books (on Mercer, in Soho). What a thrill to be among such fine poetry, such fine books (art objects and artists’ books, “small edition books”), and such fine people. Thank you, Steve Clay, for welcoming me.

Friday, August 07, 2009

















"Vacation" by Márton Koppány

KOPPÁNY WAVES TO E·RATIO EDITIONS.

E·ratio Editions is happy to announce the publication of Waves, an e-chap by Márton Koppány.

See Márton Koppány's work online at e·ratio:

IT IS THE SAME
Dedication Poems


Friday, July 24, 2009

Sunday, July 12, 2009







a noun sing e·ratio 12 · 2009

with poetry by David Chikhladze, Gautam Verma, David Rushmer, Anne Fitzgerald, Mary Ann Sullivan, Ruth Lepson, Virginia Konchan, Sandra Huber, Paige H. Taggart, Marcia Arrieta, Sean Patrick Hill, Travis Macdonald, Mark Lamoureux, Camille Martin, Nathan Thompson, Philip Byron Oakes, Cyril Wong, and Derek Henderson

edited by gregory vincent st. thomasino



Friday, June 26, 2009

“For the man who studies to gain insight, books and studies are merely rungs of the ladder on which he climbs to the summit of knowledge. As soon as a rung has raised him one step, he leaves it behind.”

—Schopenhauer


In a dispute by correspondence with a young admirer of his named Kugelmann, Marx explains the application of the dialectic to current events. It was 1870 and Kugelmann could not see why Germany should turn her defensive war against France into an aggressive and imperialistic war. Marx replies that the dialectic consists not only in opposing another force but in overcoming it and so fusing the two elements. Then he writes to Engels: “When a man attacks me on the street, according to K., I have only the right to ward off his blows; to strike him in return and knock him down would be, according to him, to become an aggressor. It is clear none of these fellows understand anything about the dialectic.”

—from Darwin, Marx, Wagner by Jacques Barzun


“I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I cannot transform into something marvelous, I let go.”

—Anaïs Nin


Tuesday, June 23, 2009























Edward Gorey's cover for The Second Sin by Thomas Szasz. At first glance one might take this for a card from the tarot deck.


Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Sunday, March 29, 2009







Term as in Aftermath is Alan Halsey's new full-length collection of poetry.

The Dedication reads, in part,
A Looking-Glass for Logoclasts is for Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino.

Wow. Thank you, Alan.

Read me on Alan Halsey from the spring 2005 issue of E·ratio.


Thursday, March 05, 2009





E·ratio Editions is happy to announce the publication of Correspondance (a sketchbook) by Joseph F. Keppler.


Correspondance (a sketchbook) by Joseph F. Keppler. Digital art.

“What can I call this work? Neither painting nor critique yet informed by art, the following are sketches to me. Rather than executed on paper, they’re drawings designed using the pervasive computer. These graphics approach oeuvre subjectively, not as meticulous copies or art history illustrations, but as some poetic efforts. My laptop simply opens a new capacity for thinking about art and drawing it. As studies these are (a)musing tributes as well as appropriate(d) attributes.” —Joseph F. Keppler, from the introduction.


Cy Twombly

























Marcel Duchamp


























What the cognoscenti are saying about Correspondance (a sketchbook):

“Readability and meaning construction, as well as the relation between the visual and the literary, have been concerns of Joe’s for many years. In Correspondance we see Joe, who is also an astute critic on both literary and visual art, take an artist’s approach, a visual poet’s approach, a visual artist’s approach. Joe Keppler is very unusual in his deep engagement both with art history and the literary. He’s a poet, a visual poet, a sound poet, a sculptor of steel, a photographer, a painter, a polyartist. Not only in his practice but in his wide reading and viewing of contemporary and historical work. I don’t know anybody else as voracious as he is not only in his own artistic practice but in learning about art and philosophy. He is an incredibly learned man as well as an important poet and artist. He shows us what it now means to be literate.” —Jim Andrews,  Vispo ~ Langu(im)age

“Correspondance is suffused with correspondence, bright exchanges between artist and subject, playful responses between form, light, color, and art history. Poet and sculptor, Joe Keppler brings both mediums to bear, poetry and sculpture, word and material, hand in hand. Keppler adds a third-dimension to the graceful dance (Joe the humble artist says, ‘bump’) through his lifelong study of painting and sculpture: allusions to significant works, quotations of style, and adaptations that bring old works to new life. In this series of sketches, poet, artist, and art will wheel you across the dance floors of the page.” —Crag Hill,  Poetry Scorecard



Also available from E·ratio Editions:

#5. Six Comets Are Coming by Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino. Volume I of the collected works including Go and Go Mirrored, with revised introductions, corrected text and restored original font.

#4. The Logoclasody Manifesto. Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino on logoclasody, logoclastics, eidetics and pannarrativity. Addenda include the Crash Course in Logoclastics, Concrete to Eidetic (on visual poetry) and On Mathematical Poetry.

“As an exegetical object, Logoclasody documents quite brilliantly an ontological crisis in poetry and is, by design, an exemplar both of the problem and the solution. St.Thomasino conceives the central aporia of writing as one of recovering, from the ruin of a necessarily incomplete knowledge, the deep-structure(s) of representation. And by exploiting the tension between grammatical function and the irruptive energies of text itself, the St. Thomasinian program deploys logos as an expressive motif, through which are diffracted both meaning and its contested relationship to language.” —Scott Wilkerson, Columbus State University

#3. Waves by Márton Koppány. Visual poetry.

“These works are minimalist by design, but should we paraphrase the thought channeled therein, the effect would be encyclopedic, ranging through philosophy, psychology, politics, and the human emotions.” —Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino on Márton Koppány

#2. Mending My Black Sweater and other poems by Mary Ann Sullivan. Poems of making conscious, of acceptance and of self-remembering, and of personal responsibility.

#1. Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino joins John M. Bennett In the Bennett Tree. Collaborative poems, images, an introduction and a full-length critical essay pay homage to American poet John M. Bennett.






taxis de pasa logos