The Vicious Circulation of Dr Catastrope
The exuberance of language, impassioned to the point of rupturing its own bounds, can sometimes lead to toxic, inflammatory utterances that form a contour for a speaking to come. Following that tangential vector from reasoned discourse to its extreme limit, a literary polemic devises new zones of speech that unapologetically emancipate expression from the demands of order, logical sequence, and rational repartee. It is language becoming-mad, the vicious decentralization of sense.
There are only points of departure in polemical speech. When inner experience goes into crescendo, into those perilous domains of the highest pique and pitch, this is where these five characters can be said to spill over the fragile constructs of selves by means of becoming discursively febrile, martial, ornery, a critical assault that lashes outwards like an explosive object. This is the very core of "voxplosive" language.
Forthcoming in 2010, Crossing Chaos Enigmatic Ink
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Morphometries
Poetry chapbook with running satirical narrative
Differentia Press, ~65+/-pp (forthcoming November, 2009)
Price: Free from Differentia Press as a download here (when link activated).
Divergent Noises (with Jukka-Pekka Kervinen)
Using Kervinen's own "text engine", this online book employs a system of artful decoding and interpellation of multiple original texts to produce a new poetic code sequence. It's fun, it's free.
Jukka-Pekka Kervinen is an experimental writer, graphic designer, photographer, and editor of VUGG Books, cPress, Epidermis, and Forward/Text.
76pp
Download here
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Anticipated release by Calliope Nerve Media late summer 2009. Sneak peek of the electronic version here.
For a sneak aural peek at one of the works set to music by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, go to Audioo.
"[+!] is a post-code-poetry experiment, making de-composition into re-composition. .. art in it's truest sense... a bizarre, compelling, visually stunning, important work. Lysicology may not be a part of your lexicon now but it will be..." --Lucindo Anthony (author A Disease of Poetry)
Read the review by Lynn Alexander at Full of Crow
Tales Pinned on a Complete Ass
Convergence Press, 2009: 190pp
ISBN-10: 0981009190
ISBN-13: 978-0981009193
US$10.00
Available on Amazon.com
Read the author interview here.
“Bristling and irreverent.”
“Not your average ethnography.”
What does it mean to be Romanian?
In the raucous and bawdy spirit of P.J. O'Rourke and Hunter S. Thompson, join our intrepidly baffled author in his satire on ethnography and travel-writing as he visits one of the most exotic, beautiful, yet Kafka-esque nations on earth: Romania. Proving that one can become drunk and destitute in any language, watch as our author races converted school buses that catch aflame, bribe moustachioed foreign police officers, flee panicked moments of grievous linguistic misunderstanding, defend Canadian drinking honour by bending the elbow with gypsies and ex-Soviet poets, dodge skull-pinching anthropologists, travel across the rusted landscape in rickety trains, and eventually return to his native land an utter gibbering wreck.
Faucher negotiates cultural differences with a double-barrel blast of absurdity and audacity, but with a treatment that is both ridiculous and touching.
In Praise of Transient Objects
Trainwreck Press, 2008: 24pp
Available on Trainwreck Press
A recent poetry chapbook by Kane X. Faucher including such highlights as "prohibition geometry" and various live-performed pieces.
Cover image by Peter Schwartz
Jonkil Dies
BlazeVOX Books, 2008: 456pp.
ISBN-10: 1934289698
ISBN-13: 978-1934289693
US$20.00
Available on Amazon.com; read the review by Anthony Metivier here.
Jonkil Calembour is dying. Misunderstood genius, madman, pariah, and notorious drunk, Jonkil recounts the entirety of his life with inexhaustible bile and disgust. From his academic fall from grace, to a brief stay in a mental institution; from great metaphysician and libertine poet to despised cultural critic and fiendish art-surgeon, nothing is immune from Jonkil's polemical treatment in this vertiginous free-fall through the tangled bracken of an impossible mind. One part rabid Céline, another part jabbering Artaud, and shot right through by a kind of Gonzo bullet, Jonkil breathes his last with his shocking invective and trysts with complicated women.
"Jonkil Dies is the eponymous hero in this final instalment of Kane X. Faucher's experimental trilogy. Jonkil's last breath is the ongoing rant of an intriguingly unreliable Gonzo narrator whose linguistic perceptions will entrain you in echoes of Eco and Celine, for Faucher is the appropriate lineage holder of a literary tradition that includes Borges, Beckett and Pound. Read Jonkil Dies and be revived." —Penn Kemp
"Holy Kanadada, Bat(aille)man! Kane X. Faucher's socio-sexio-scalpel of Logos explodes an intoxicated phantasmarrhea of Anguish & Ecstasy unto the Jabberwocky Matrix Éxtrémé! Run for the Collidosphere of hyper-Deleuzian Magyaria & hold to the Vertigo of the New Philology's Brainbucket Bastardchild!" —Mark Spitzer, author of Age of the Demon Tools.
Cover image by Matina Stamatakis. "
Fort & Da
Six Gallery Press, 2006: 190pp.
ISBN-10: 0973769483
ISBN-13: 978-0973769487
Available on Amazon.com
Friedrich Errado is problematized by an obsession with the event of the WTC collapse. He grants the towers their figurative appellation of Fort and Da, and chronicles the emergence of an immense phantom tower known as Fear that issues from an infinitely replicating ground zero. As well, two recurrent types are transfigured in the characters of Jonkil Calembour as Da and Louis Legare as Fort--instances of the megalomaniac and paranoiac type, creating the space of a Nietzschean politics to come.
Codex Obscura
Six Gallery Press, 2005: 482pp
ISBN-10: 0973769408
ISBN-13: 978-0973769401
US$19.99
Available on Amazon.com
Jonkil Calembour returns to take posession of a mysterious manuscript written by a sanatarium in-patient, attempts to graft a theory of painting, and becomes locked in a zone where it is perpetually 3:33 am while cocaine-addled inventors try to woo the State Defense with war machine proposals. Includes glossary of neologisms and an introduction by acclaimed author, Raymond Federman.
Urdoxa
Six Gallery Press, 2004: 530pp.
ISBN-10: 0974603392
ISBN-13: 978-0974603391
US$19.99
Available on Amazon.com
"Mix one part rabid Celine, another part Nietzsche, steep in whiskey, and serve chilled if you know what's good for you."
The book that started the Jonkil Calembour cycle. Jonkil Calembour, drunken gadabout genius, erects false empires in order to watch them fall into dissolution in his ongoing frustration in not being able to find a worthy adversary. Comparable to Gass' The Tunnel.
Free e-Books
Calqueform - Vugg Books (20 poems)
Astrozoica - Vugg Books (206 aphorisms)
De Incunabliad - Venereal Kittens