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Michael Basinski
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Michael Basinski performs improvisational sound poems as a solo poet and in ensemble with his group BuffFluxus. Smashing words, he releases the pixies within them, which allows for projective poetic trajectories to take the place of lines in the poems. He speaks with and harnesses the duende. He performs OPEMS, a form of poem that has multiple entry access points. He engages in visual, verbal, improvisational, paganal poetrys all merged and juxtaposed. He starred in John Huston's The Roots of Heaven and played God in Al Eaker's The Gospel According to Yes.

He is the Curator of The Poetry Collection, SUNY at Buffalo. Among his many books of poetry are Heka (Factory School); Strange Things Begin to Happen When a Meteor Crashes in the Arizona Desert (Burning Press); The Idyllic Book (Michel Letko, Houston, Texas); Mool, Mool3Ghosts and Shards of Shampoo (Bob Cobbing's Writers Forum); Cnyttan and Heebie-Jeebies (Meow Press); By and The Doors (House Press); Un-Nome, Red Rain Two, Abzu and Flight to the Moon (Run Away Spoon Press): Poemeserss (Structum Press) and Pomes Popeye Papyrus (Slack Buddha). His poems have appeared in many magazines among them: Xerolage, Dandelion, BoxKite, Antennae, Unbearables Magazine, Open Letter, Torgue, Leopold Bloom, Wooden Head Review, Basta, Kiosk, Explosive Magazine, Deluxe Rubber Chicken, First Offense, Terrible Work, Juxta, Kenning, Witz, Lungfull, Lvng, Generator, Tinfish, Curicule Patterns, Score, Unarmed, Rampike, First Intensity, House Organ, Ferrum Wheel, End Note, Ur Vox and many, many others.

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