First thoughts on Problem Pictures by Spencer Selby:
Such attentiveness to arrangement, to juxtaposition of pages, rhythmic shuffling of images superimposed by typed text, of images superimposed by hand-written text (with cross-outs), abstract images without text, variation of type size, line work, degenerated half-tones... the range of visual/verbal textual imagery that marks a visual poem as Spencer Selby... that the book works not so much as a "collection" as a narrative, a graphic novel that creates, defines, confuses, and demands consciousness.
"You Must Face the World You Created." This world I must face, as I see the book during and after reading, as I turn the pages of my consciousness (losing the consciousness of pages), this world is crisp, black and white (and not George Bush black-and-white) with startling contrast.
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