![]() ![]() There were knights and gargoyles on the walls alongside leftover Halloween and Christmas decorations. When I attended Mosconi’s book launch last summer at The Prince in Koreatown, it took place in a crimson room in the back of the bar. Each poem was run through an online color theme generator, which determined the color theme for each page.”Īshenfolk is a kit, made up of pamphlets and postcards. His last book, Fright Catalog, was a magazine with overblown roses on the cover, which he describes as “minimalist collage poems drawn from various sources, primarily heavy metal lyrics and song titles, but also language picked up from gaming chatrooms, art criticism, and horror and weird fiction. Mosconi’s books take unusual forms, playing with typography and design. Like Laura Palmer speaking backward in the Red Room in Twin Peaks, Ashenfolk defamiliarizes language, making it strange and cool. For me, Mosconi’s work also shares an affinity with David Lynch’s. Upon waking, you are left with a kind of feeling or atmosphere that is hard to shake. It’s like trying to listen to someone telling you something in a dream, where you are straining to understand and you can’t. I have a similar experience reading Mosconi’s work as I do listening to the Elvish in The Lord of the Rings. poet Joseph Mosconi’s latest book, Ashenfolk, is Elvish folklore. ![]() ONE OF THE MANY playful and weird inspirations for L.A. ![]()
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