... Seismosis is the complete text for the course, replete with illustrations, examples, graphs, exercises, and tests.
          —from the Foreword by Ed Roberson

Wow. Rarely a book makes such an impact. Keene and Stackhouse heat up the strange place where abstraction becomes as visceral as thoughts or conversations. Anyone interested in artistic collaborations will rarely find one this complete, in the pleasure of ever-forming and dissolving boundaries between gestures. An immediate delight.
          —Thalia Field

This exquisite collaboration goes beyond a linear mutual appreciation: poet likes artist's work—artist likes poet's work. In Seismosis, Keene & Stackhouse present an interwoven, intersecting conversation between one another and their art forms. We read the poems and see the drawings—we read the drawings and see the poems, as the collaborators make use of space, line, and textural performance in one multimedia framework. Here, two men's boyish charms and haunting playfulness create a three-dimensional canvas out of thinking inscriptions.
          —Tracie Morris

It's what happens when writing and drawing give each other a hand, a free hand, to shake it up, to go the distance from crossing out to crossing over, from ear to here and back again, fast. A little nerve music for the time being—sampling seismo for the pleisto scene.
          —David Levi Strauss

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