Grilled Seafood
Matthew Klane
New Trim and Siding
Matthew Klane
Sossusvlei Dun
Matthew Klane
Stock Up
Matthew Klane
Artist’s Statement
As a poet, appropriation and collage has always been my primary mode. Distilling and transforming text. Layering and arranging text. My poetic interests have also leaned towards the visual arts: typography, page-space, dirty minimalism.
These junkmail collages were intended as a daily practice. Use only what falls through the mail slot. Be attentive to the rips and stains and bruises the paper incurred in its travels. Listen to the bright solicitous words and offer something in return.
about the artist
Matthew Klane is co-editor at Flim Forum Press. His books include Canyons (w/ James Belflower, Flim Forum, 2016), Che (Stockport Flats, 2013) and B (Stockport Flats, 2008). An e-chapbook from Of the Day is online at Delete Press and an e-book My is online at Fence Digital. New collages are online or forthcoming from ctrl + v, Diagram, Gasher, Fugue, and Word for/Word. He currently lives and writes in Albany, NY, where he curates the The REV Poetry Series and teaches at Russell Sage College. [matthewklane.com]