CATALOG

The Library Catalog will be updated over time as more entries are posted on the blog.  Please see the Call for Participation if you'd like to participate with your works or recommend other works that conceptualize the Invisible. [Please note new email for contact: GalateaTEN@aol.com]

Catalog is Listed in alphabetical order by Author. Click on title for more information.  In two categories: BOOKS and OTHER MEDIA.


BOOKS

I. Books With Invisible Text & Other Invisibles:

Anonymous [re. Michael Gove]
Everything I Know About Teaching by Michael Gove
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (United Kingdom, 2013)


Bahl, Aditya
ARE poems 
(in manuscript form, Himachal Pradesh, India, 2014)


Barwin, Gary
                [Title is Blank Space]
(serif of nottingham editions, Hamilton, Ontario, 2014)


Beckett, Tom
Blank Suite 
(Minitage Press, Kent, OH / St. Helena, CA, 2014)


Betts, Gregory
THE OUGHT BOOK
(Ontario, 2013)


Blanco, Manuel
El Indio
(late 19th century)


Bloomberg-Rissman, John
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Theaters:Details (Volume 1)

(Laughing / Ough / Cube Publications, Claremont, CA, 2014)

Conley, Craig
The Carte Blanche Atlas: 75 Uncharted Territories for Off-the-Beaten-Pathfinders
(CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2007)


Danho, Julie
"Erased de Kooning"
in Six Portraits
(Slapering Hol Press at The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center, Sleepy Hollow, N.Y., 2014)


Dinnerstein, Victor
The Wit and Wisdom of Spiro T. Agnew
(Price Stern Sloan, Los Angeles, 1968)


Elia, Miriam
We Go To The Gallery
(Self-Published / a 'Harlequin Ladybird book,' London, 2014)


Goldsmith, Oliver
Essays 
(Oxford University, 1756)


Kostelanetz, Richard
Conceptual Fictions 
(Archae Editions, Ridgewood-Soho, N.Y., 2012)


Kostelanetz, Richard
Tabula Rasa: A Novel 
(Archae Editions, Ridgewood-Soho, N.Y., 1978)


Kostelanetz, Richard
Inexistences: Stories 
(Archae Editions, Ridgewood-Soho, N.Y., 1978)


Kostelanetz, Richard
Absence Captioned
(Archae Editions, Ridgewood-Soho, N.Y., 2014)


Lacuesta, Angelo R.
"Pastoral"
in VERSES TYPHOON YOLANDA: A Storm of Filipino Poets, Ed. Eileen R. Tabios
(Meritage Press, San Francisco & St. Helena, CA, 2014)


Lemonodo
Here Goes Nothing
(Creative Commons, 2014)


Lemonodo
Erased Spaced 
(Creative Commons, 2014)


Nichol, bp
A Condensed History of Nothing
(Ganglia, Toronto, 1970)


P., Michael
SON LOVE ENCYCLOPEDIA
(1/1 SitWithMoi Edition, St. Helena, CA, 2013)


Prasad, SS
O Poems 
(manuscript, Bangalore, India, 2014)


Sanders, Edward
A Variorum Edition of the Entire Extant Works ofThales! The Famous Milesian Poet, Philosopher, Physicist, Astronomer,Mathemetician, Cosmologist, Urstoff-Freak, Absent-Minded Professor & Madman 
(Fuck You Press, New York, 1964) 


Saroyan, Aram
"ly" 
in COMPLETE MINIMAL POEMS (2nd Edition), Edited by Aram Saroyan and James Hoff
(Primary Information / Ugly Duckling Presse, Brooklyn, 2014)


Xavier Serrano
Bartlebits 

(book-in-progress)


Slider, Red
"Still Life with Statue"
in Portraits (Out-of-the-Loop Press, Sacramento, CA, 2005)


Smith, Jessica
Zen 
(Lulu eBook, 2009)


Tabios, Eileen R.
A BLURB PROJECT: The Secret Lives of Blank Lines
in THE SECRET LIVES OF PUNCTUATIONS, VOL. I
(xPress(ed), Espoo, Finland, 2006)


Tabios, Eileen R.
"Footnote Poems" 
in I TAKE THEE, ENGLISH, FOR MY BELOVED
(Marsh Hawk Press, New York, 2005)


Tabios, Eileen R.
THE CHATELAINE'S BLURBED BOOK PROJECT
(2005-Present)


Tabios, Eileen R.
LET'S TALK ABOUT YOU. WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT ME?
(Self-published, 2012.  Out of print.)
LET'S REALLY TALK ABOUT YOU.  WHAT DO YOU REALLY THINK ABOUT ME?
(Books Expanded, St. Helena, CA, 2014)


Tabios, E.R.
THE SECRET
(1/1 SitWithMoi Edition, St. Helena, CA, 2013)

Eileen Tabios

The Silence is Deafening

(1/1, Eileen'sTinyBooks (Victoria Library), St. Helena, CA, 2021)


Elisabeth Tonnard
The Invisible Book 
(Self-published, Leerdam, 2012)

Valoch, Jíří 

Book About Nothing

(Brno, 1970)

Villa, Jose Garcia
"The Emperor's New Sonnet"
in SELECTED POEMS AND NEW
(McDowell, Obolensky, New York, 1942-1958 and Bookmark, Inc., Manila, 1993)


Waber, Dan
Book of I
(logolalia, Lancaster, PA and Hong Kong, 2013)


Waber, Dan
The U.S. National Debt
(logolalia, Lancaster, PA and Hong Kong, 2013)


II. Books About Books With Invisible Text & Other Invisibles:

Dworkin, Craig
No Medium 
(The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2013)




OTHER MEDIA

Anonymous
De tribus impostoribus, book review of  Georges Minois, The Atheist's Bible: The Most Dangerous Book That Never Existed (Lys Ann Weiss, translator). Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012  

Cage, John
4'33", composition

Catedral, Emmy
"variations of resistance," a mixed-media installation

Cégeste, Jacques
Poems in Nudisme, poems

Friedman, Tom
"1,000 Hours of Staring," sculpture

Friedman, Tom
"Untitled (A Curse)," space/sculpture

Glass, Jesse
My Sculpture, sculpture

Goodland, Giles
"Nothing", a poem

Johnson, Halvard
Comment, a blog comment
(Bibliotheca Invisibilis Blog, 2014)

Koppany, Marton
"Self-Portrait as A4" and "Eternity" -- two visual poems

Koppany, Marton

"Ellipsis No. 15" and "Ancient Ellipsis (Fragment)", "Invispo" -- two visual poems 

Kostelanetz, Richard
Commissioner of Baseball for the British Isles, a nomination 

Montfort, Nick and Strickland, Stephanie
Sea and Spar Between, poetry generator

Motti, Gianni
"Magic Ink" (1989), drawings

Paik, Nam June
"Zen for Film," film

Powhida, William
"Overculture," (2014) installation

Xavier Serrano
Zswounderground, blog 

Virgil, Erin
"Soul Piece," essay

Warhol, Andy
"Invisible Scullpture" (1985), sculpture

Eileen Tabios

 I'm delighted to share the 2021 release of my new tiny book, The Silence is Deafening. 

The Silence is Deafening by Eileen Tabios

(Eileen’sTinyBooks (Victoria Library), Saint Helena, CA, 2021. 1/1)

Size: 1.25” x 1.75”

Here are other images of the deafening book:

The Silence is Deafening uses a hand-made leather bound journal by Ginger at JustJournalIt. Materials: leather, cotton thread, and Arches 90lb cold pressed cotton watercolor paper. Ginger used the long stitch method to affix the paper to the spine.

I held on to Ginger's blank journal for nearly a year before coming across a Facebook post by Chile-based artist Felipe Cussen:

Felipe's post on Fra Elbertus' Essay on Silence inspired me to turn the blank journal into a blank-paged miniature book. Thanks to Felipe for permission to present his original post.

MARTON KOPPANY (2)

TWO VISUAL POEMS: 

"Self-portrait as A4" and "Eternity"

"Self-portrait as A4" 

"a thing of interrelated constituents first appears to an awareness as a whole, but may then be deliberately divided in order to focus on different constituents; yet, for the arising of an intuitive understanding that leads to purposeful activity, one needs to unite the constituents and once again comprehend the thing in its closely interrelated form."

"Eternity"

[These works were previously published by Otoliths Magazine, Editor Mark Young]

*****

Márton Koppány (b. 1953) lives in Budapest, Hungary. He has been interested in (visual) poetry and (language) art since the late 70’s. Recent books in print:Endgames, Modulations, Addenda, all by Otoliths, 2008, 2010, 2012; The Reader, Runaway Spoon Press, 2012; The Seer, Redfoxpress, 2017. In anthologies: Anthology Spidertangle, The Last Vispo, A Global Visuage, The Dark Would and The New Concrete. Recent shows include: Text Festival, Bury Art Museum, 2011 and 2014; Asylum, collaborated with Albert Pellicer, Iklectik Art Lab, London, 2017; Foreigners, Bury, 2017.

https://sites.google.com/site/booksbymartonkoppany/

https://www.thing.net/~grist/ld/koppany/koppany.htm

MANUEL BLANCO

El Indio
(late 19th century)

A Project Description by Angelo Suarez
Philippine literary history is not w/o its share of telling silences. Literary historian Resil Mojares writes of the Augustinian botanist Manuel Blanco, a Spanish friar credited w/ having penned Flora de Filipinas, segun el sistema sexual de Linneo (“Flowers of the Philippines, according to thesexual system of Linnaeus”) in 1837, who “was tasked by his order to write atreatise on the character of the Philippine native (indio). The friar secluded himself in a monastery and admonished his confreres that the book he was working on should be opened only after his death. When he died years later, the friars eagerly opened the magnum opus on which their brother had long labored, only to find that the book contained nothing but blank pages.” The book is said to be thick, held together by a cover made of vellum that bore its title, El Indio. Its blankness—reinforced no less by author’s surname, Blanco—cld be read as a testament to either the unknowability of a people or their lack of merit to be even known, or even aseither the diligent friar’s refusal to reduce a people into an object of theimperial gaze or the outcome of anthropological incompetence borne of eccentricity. This interpretive indeterminacy, however, veils the possibility of reading the substrate that is the paper itself—such that an equivalency between the indio & the aggregate of sheets is posited, & that conquest is presented not so much as inscription onto the ‘native’ page but the very framing of the sheets as native: the indio is itself an imperial fantasy, a discursive composition.


A Paper in Kritika (Ateneo University, Philippines)
"Manuel Blanco's El Indio and the History of a Rumor"
By Resil B. Mojares

OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Essays (1756)
Book without a book
(Original from Oxford University. Digitized July 31, 2006)
--from The Art of Google Books

XAVIER SERRANO (2)

BARTLEBITS
(work-in-progress: "a black hole in expansion")

Bartlebits is about erased sections in books. Most of these are not just corrections but actual deletions, wanted or unwanted. Throughout the various chapters, you will recognise some famous figures or familiar writings. These words, however, have been for some reason taken out and omitted from the original works. At the end of Bartlebits, sources and links can be found. Why call this Bartlebits? Maybe because we are dealing here with dead letters. Maybe... Note that this is a work in progress, in other words a black hole in expansion.

Xavier is the author of several books of fiction and poetry published in France and Canada. His work has been featured in a number of international magazines and webzines. He is interested in alternative, experimental and authorless writing. He is also the editor of a small but funny magazine.

(Author photo is a screenshot from Zswounderground.)

XAVIER SERRANO (1)

Zswounderground 
(Extracting Buried Meaning Since Aug 08)


About the Zswounderground Blog Project:
INTRODUCTION 
The Introductory note on the site reads as follows: 
«These mines, tunnels, pits and shafts are regularly being extended. If you need some light while excavating, please contact us and we will provide you with some instructions. But remember that everything here is happening below the surface. If you get lost, get lost.» 
=> This is a blog WITHOUT any posts on the home page; 
=> ONLY COMMENTS are inserted ; 
=> ALL posts are left blank (or may contain an error message) ; 
=> Everyting is taking place BENEATH the surface, is hidden from sight, and potential content has to be unearthed (that is to be discovered from the “Comments” area).  

INTENTION 
Meaning/mining: The blog is built upon the metaphor of mining.  The explorer has to dig his/her way to light, content and meaning (if any).  But the site of course is full of traps and dead-ends. 
**First of all, I was interested in undermining communication and the very act of blogging. At first sight (and as we say somewhere "sight is under destruction"), there is nothing to see on the HOME-page (we call it the HOLE-page).  No feeds, no notes, no dates.  The only way to enter is to fall through the HOLE-page. In the absence of any white rabbit, the digger is free to find his/her own gems or get lost. Secondly I wanted to disrupt the nature and content of “Comments”. Usually “comments” are focused on praise, criticism, comparison, spam, promotion / self-promotion, etc. Instead, I wanted to create some confusion and play on bizarre interactions, disconnected reactions, nonsense, etc. 

DESCRIPTION 
Some kind of borgesian maze is thus created with internal loops (within the mine) or external drills (towards other sites or networks).

While the posts on Zswounderground are devoid of content, there are some titled posts.  Per the projecs concept, most of the action occurs in the Comments section.  For example, there is a textless post entitled "Collapsing spaces."  When you go to the comments section, there is this comment:

Zswlkr said...

1. Hand written melancholy
2. Dreamscape formation after working hours
3. Boxin[g]Love
4. Screening obsessions
5. Dalinian virgin auto-submitted to her own pain
6. Kinematic frontier
7. Mutilated erection
8. Distance between two crashing planes
9. Defeated body
10. Escape

Note that No. 10, "Escape," is a link.  Click on link and you will end up at a YouTUBE video by donnasummerschool of "Bubonic Plague - Dracula."  

Xavier says, "Many posts lead nowhere. Some, on the contrary may lead to the comments zone through which you can get to other posts or other comments. But the overall themes being darkness, emptiness and loss, you never go far and return to what I call the 'hole-page'."

The "hole-page," of course, is the original empty post on Zswounderground.

CONCLUSION 
Zswounderground is a blog which refuses to make things easy for the reader. On Zswounderground, readers will spend either 0 seconds or several hours. Zswounderground is one of the many projects from Zswound (http://zswound.blogspot.fr/p/about.html).

Xavier is the author of several books of fiction and poetry published in France and Canada. His work has been featured in a number of international magazines and webzines. He is interested in alternative, experimental and authorless writing. He is also the editor of a small but funny magazine.

(Author photo is a screenshot from Zswounderground.)

ADITYA BAHL

ARE poems
(currently in manuscript form, Himachal Pradesh, India, 2014)

PROJECT DESCRIPTION
ARE poems is an erasure of the book titled, John Clare, Poems Selected by Paul Farley.  The "cover" below is the result of the erased book cover to "create a sort of a digital book artifact for now."

Artist Statement:

The book, John  Clare/ Poems Selected by Paul Farley was bought on the street side Sunday book market of Daryaganj, Old Delhi, all for twenty rupees. The prices largely depend only on the size and thickness of the books.

Several de/re-readings/writings/ventriloquisms (English is not my mother tongue) of Clare's phenomenology and local descriptions soon developed into a close attention to the fundamental particles of language/life— diectics, expletives, pronouns— language of everywhere and time.

The work (via I) progressed as a narrative of a loss and recovery of itself, as meaning— revealing the perceptual/perpetual correspondence between description and it’s grammar— as as what’s what’s.

The semiotic implications of the Cartesian subjectivity— the fundamental dichotomy of subject-object have had concurrent manifestations in the liberal lineage of private property (Machievelli Hobbes Locke Rousseau onwards the constant attempt to supplement the rather sterile Enlightenment understanding of I, with varied invocations of the more political “We”)    

What is I & What is not-I. Not “the inhuman black of empty space” (note on Ronald Johnson’s Radios) but Shunyata—a negation of drishti (view, judgement), not to be mistaken as the denial of reality, but rather to be understood as a “freeing of reality of the artificial and accidental restrictions” (T R V Murthy).

Acts I perform are creatures
Who create others.

. . .or words don't need us, any more than trees? … What do words know of each other, possibilities of sentience in words as well as dogs, plants.  

The form is perceived and the eye is the perceiver. It (eye) is perceived and the mind is the perceiver. The mind with its modifications is perceived and the Witness (the self) is the perceiver. But It (the Witness) is not perceived (by any other).

We live in a world of things.   

and some such. . .
 

{Nagarjuna, R. Grenier, Drg-Drsya Viveka, G. Oppen}

SAMPLE PAGES FROM THE BOOK:

(Click on images to enlarge; when you look at the pages, you can see the ghosts of the erased text):

Born and brought up in the Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh. Works have appeared or are forthcoming in E-Ratio, Lilliput Review, iArtistas, Haiku 21, Offerta Spceiale Otoliths, Poetry Salzburg Review, Rampike. A chapbook of visual poetry is available here. Co-edits Bones, a journal of contemporary haiku.