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New and On View: Mudlark Poster No. 29 (2000) Synopticon | Louis Armand and John Kinsella Authors' Note This sequence was composed during the course of an e-mail correspondence and remains an on-going project. Each piece is the outcome of numerous promptings and erasures, sorties, advances, feints, overwritings and defacements, pastiches and parodies, rendering a "synoptical" text whose authorship is ultimately anonymous (--in this sense "John Kinsella" and "Louis Armand" function merely as ciphers). About the Authors Louis Armand is an Australian writer and artist currently living in Prague, where he lectures at Charles University. His work has appeared in various journals, including Poetry Revue, Sulfur, Meanjin and Heat. His most recent publication is Erosions (Sydney: Vagabond Press, 1999). A collection of Poetry, Inexorable Weather, and volume of experimental prose, The Garden, are forthcoming in 2000 from Arc and Salt respectively (both in the UK). He is poetry editor of The Prague Revue, and editor of the literary broadsheet Plastic (Semtext). John Kinsella was born in Western Australia in 1963 and is the author of twenty books, most recently: Poems 1980-1994 (Bloodaxe, 1998); The Hunt (Bloodaxe, 1998), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation; Visitants (Bloodaxe, 1999); a novel, Genre (FACP, 1997); a volume of short fiction, Grappling Eros (FACP, 1998); and an anthology of contemporary Australian poetry, Landbridge (Arc, 2000). He is the editor of the international literary journal Salt, co-editor of the British literary journal Stand, and International Editor of the American journal The Kenyon Review. He is currently a member of the Nobel Museum Literary Committee in Stokholm. Spread the word. Far and wide, William Slaughter _________________ MUDLARK An Electronic Journal of Poetry & Poetics Never in and never out of print... E-mail: [log in to unmask] URL: http://www.unf.edu/mudlark %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%