Title: Spider's Nest within the Shadow of Soma
First published: 1997
Description: POETRY & ART BOOK. 8-1/2" x 11". Saddle stapled bound. Front and back color covers with B&W interior leaves, together making 48 [-- "unpaginated" --] pages. A metric [-- iambic --] montage. Visual -- op[tical illusional] -- poetry. Modernist (Imagist) Poetry cut into halftone-pixelated photomontage of the 16 plates of Giovanni Battista Piranesi's "Fantastic Prisons" commingled with pixie squatters blocked into a cascading tessellation of phantasmagorical cells. Feverish delirium lay ruin.
Subjects: neoclassic, Fantastic Prisons, photomontage, poetry, graphic novel, metric montage, modernist, imagism, op art, outsider art, millennial poetry, BDSM, futurist, Soma, Mushroom of Immortality
Places: The Temple of the Virgin at Ephesus
People: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, mpcAstro, Nostradamus, John Willie, Future Sex, Shattered Wig Review, Kumquat Meringue, Onionhead, Dream International Quarterly, Lost & Found Times, Daedalus Books, The Stockroom, Beyond Baroque
Time periods: 1720-1778, 1992-1997, future
LC classification: PS3553.A8165 S65 1997