NEON GALAX

Praise for NEON GALAX

From the first page, Snodgrass and Brenza offer strong materials: the saturated colors, thick lines/ thin lines and often striking color combinations all inhabit recognizable dimensions.  Each image is held in a page’s repeatable shape, that is to say,  no matter what happens inside.  That acknowledged, the way their images can be pieced/read/seen across the book’s gutter is often particularly fine: when their images make an unexpected  centerfold we suddenly understand how a book’s deepening joint is another easily traversed vertical.  We should notice but not be trapped in any gridwork of form, the pair  is suggesting. Look at the way color now bends and holds our gaze across the various up/down/across movements an orthographic reading (as in a paged text poem) might provide.  Where does the color fall from?  Above?  Below? Behind?  It’s particularly pleasurable when bits seem to spin off or out of the dark horizontals several pages offer about 2/3 of the way down.  Sometimes floaters appear linelessly: is the color block then invaded, re-seeded or opened?   

— Terri Witek, Utsanga

About ANDREW BRENZA

Andrew Brenza’s recent chapbooks include Geometric Mantra (above/ground press), Poems in C (Viktlösheten Press), and Waterlight (Simulacrum Press). He is also the author of four collections of visual poetry, Automatic Souls (Timglaset), Gossamer Lid (Trembling Pillow Press), Alphabeticon & Other Poems (RedFoxPress), and Spool (Unsolicited Press). His newest book, Smear, was just released from BlazeVOX Books.

About KRISTINE SNODGRASS

Kristine Snodgrass is the author most recently of American Apparell from AlienBuddha Press, Rather, from Contagion Press (2020) and the chapbook, These Burning Fields (Hysterical Books 2019). Kristine’s asemic and vispo work has been published in Utsanga (Italy), Slow Forward, Brave New Word, and Talking About Strawberries. Kristine has collaborated with many poets and artists and is always looking for new projects. Most recent collaborations with Collin J. Rae, BEAST, can be found at kristinesnodgrass.com.