[New-Poetry] Dettmer, book art --

[Alexander Dickow]

I saw a fellow at a conference a few years ago named Buzz Spector (at Cornell, I think) who does book art, some of which involves slicing and cutting, etc. I don't know much about the (flourishing) field of book art in general, but Buzz's presentation of his own work was among the most compelling and beautiful conference talks I've ever seen: I was downright moved by his (very witty and funny, also) discussions of his relationship to the book as object, which resonated with my own. He apparently has a collection of essays out recently or soon, I'm not sure which -- and if his art criticism is anywhere near as good as his public appearances, I very highly recommend it!
He was also an interesting interlocutor: having been impressed with a *very* impromptu performance of a dada-period sound poem I gave at the same conference, we ended up chatting for a while, and I went to a later show of his in New York. 
I think he has a website somewhere; I may have put it on my blog's link page.
Amicalement,
Alex