Tabula Rasula

Book by Rasula, Jed

(p)oasis
All The Below Arrayed Out In Transparent Confusion
Also Known To Have A Golden Thigh
The Author Of Language
Bog Pollen
The Bold Dong
The Clue With A Hole
Cranial Space Chunks Loose
The Dictionary Palace
The Dictum Plectrum
The Doormouse Of The Soul & Its Duchampian Fur-lined
The Endeavor Of Rolfe Linkwings
Exasperating The Text
The Extralinguistic Charm Of The I As Signifier
Finding Again The Gap That Constitutes The Ubject
The Gatekeeper Under The Mound
Genji On The Ark
Graph
Horn Cognates
Lavorare Stanca
The Logogoblet
Maintaining The Questions Of The Hand
Mind & Wide River At Leisure
The Most Necessary Phrase
Perfect Mistakes
The Pioneers Of Their Own Disguises
Ponderous As Grammar
Postive Thinking
Pretending To Read While Pretending Not To Be Eaten
Prowling On Titles
The Representation Of Events
The Smell Of His Dead Friend Brought The Other One Out
Specimen 1
Specimen 2
The Supernatural Priority Of Ding Over Dong
The Time-warp Portal
Waking Up Laughing
Walking Backwards Into The Inscription
Zakhrenu
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Laughing Gnosticism is the most ancient of the secret traditions. Its earliest texts, which date from the fifth millenium B.C., were discovered in a cave in the Caucausus in 1927. For reasons which are unclear, however, the texts have not been made public. I have reason to believe that Rasula's Tabula is based on these ancient texts. Some of the poems, in fact, are free translations of the Gnrisibion. The central tenet of Laughing Gnosticism is that Laughter is a divine language which humans continue to use, with more or less adequate syntax and diction, despite the ancient loss of its semantic. Its meditational practices are variously directed toward the recovery of the ancient code. -- Donald Byrd

Jed Rasula has been the editor of Wch Way magazine and a correspondent to Sulfur, as well as a prolific critic and reviewer for journals, newspapers and radio. For several years he was researcher for the ABC television program "Ripley's Believe It or Not" in Los Angeles, where he has lived since 1976. -- Donald Byrd