STILL PLAYING WITH WORDS? 2 from BAMBOO DART PRESS PRESS, TM Givens' DIARIES AND LETTERS and Peter Wortsman's THE LABORATORY OF TIME and other cut-up poems

            2 from BAMBOO DART PRESS

Diaries and Letters shows the constricting space of pandemic-era living.  With the addition of writing around each drawing, artist TM Givens creates a thick boundary that encases the artwork in an unesay narrative. The words are descriptive, the observations mainly hopeful, the frustration real and persistent. By incorporating writing into this series of drawings, Givens offers insights into daily life in a turbulent time.--from the introduction to Diaries and Letters 
 




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 From: Still Playing with Words,--An Impromptu Prologue           Words belong to no one. They are all robbed, orborrowed if you prefer, from the babble of our contemporaries and the bibles of our forbears, who don't own them to begin with, but overheard or transcribed them from idle banter, news reports and the chant of itinerant bards. Exhalations burdened with meaning, they are forever being utteres, stutteredand forgotten, trashed and mulched to fertilize new foundations.--Peter Wortsman


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    About Bamboo Dart Press

Bamboo Dart Press is a collaborative marriage of Pelekinesis and Shrimper Records whose aim is to allow writers and artists to godspeed works into the physical world without the hoops and machinery of manufacturing that slow the process of finished to physical work in the world of books and LPs that are the day jobs of the two parent companies.

Mark Givens, owner of Pelekinesis, has published 75 books over the course of 10 years. In addition to his literary pursuits, he is a member of the art rock group Wckr Spgt and is the art director for Shrimper Records. Mark has been writing computer code and designing websites for over 20 years and harbors a deep love of layout, design, typography, art, and technology.

Dennis Callaci has issued hundreds of records, tapes, and CDs via his Shrimper label. Callaci’s first book, “100 Cassettes” was released by Pelekinesis in 2020. He is in the band Refrigerator and has three decades of experience issuing independent releases.

Givens and Callaci’s overlapping interests in the world of art, music and writing, along with their artist-friendly decades deep experience in the world of publishing and manufacturing, has birthed the idea of Bamboo Dart Press, a silver bullet in the world of arms; small, quick, nimble with no room for bullshit.

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