Book Art Backgrounders at Deeplinking

Robert The: “I kinda blew a fuse in my senior year—something very strange happened—and I lost my ability to read for a period of a month or two. This sharpened my interest regarding what was actually going on with the symbols that convey meaning on a concrete level.”
Peter Ciccariello is an cross-genre poet, artist, and photographer, who is fascinated by words and the unbreachable spaces between things. His current interests are in experimenting with the melding of text and images in virtual worlds.
“I always felt it was a little hokey
having a poem
right in the middle of the work of art.”
Close, C. (2006). A Couple of Ways of Doing Something. New York, N.Y: [Distributed in North America by] D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers.(pg. i)
Richard Brautigan published Please Plant This Book in the Spring of 1968. It consisted of eight packets of garden seeds, each printed with a poem, all gathered in a small folder.













