Seven Pages Missing: The Selected Steve McCaffery (VOl. 1)
by Steve McCaffery

This two volume set of Steve McCaffery’s Collected Selected and Collected Previously Uncollected (and no doubt Unselected until the current Selected Collected) presents some of the liveliest experimental writing of the latter half of the 20th and teensy-weensy sliver of the fore-part of the fore-play of the forward end of the 21st centuries. You’ll find visual poetry, texts for sound poetry, erasures, examples of what Ron Silliman would term the New Sentence, critico-fictions flat fictions and now you see it now you don’t poems, plus a post-card that urges you to see an internet-text-graphic by the author. The only form of verbo-visual art you won’t find between these four pages is combustions, but that’s easily remedied by the reader! I would call this a source-book and a seminal series of texts and a must have for anyone attempting to bend the harp of the Muse to make a new sound under alien skies. The only draw back are the white covers, because if one carts these books around as much as I’ve been doing, they begin to show dirt, ink-splots, and cosmic dust leavings pretty quickly. All in all, though–Excellent!