“fo(a)rm • no. 1 (utility) • spring / summer 2003” magazine

• 52 pp.

fo a rm press release...

fo(a)rm no. 1 (utility) 52 pp., 8 1/2 x 9 1/2”, saddle-stitched, textured paper cover our inaugural issue addresses the queries and quivers of function, skittering to establish a form that can become as it moves. offerings include robert kelly’s “the use of use” and “hymn to use”, a discussion of musical art and artifact by italian researcher/composer giancarlo toniutti, instructional poems by mark owens, diagrammatic drawings by 9-year old inventor raymond kennedy, ecstatic interventions of “inexpressible utility” by holley blackwell, a poetic investigation of typewriting drills and models by ashley edwards, a collection of essays by shanghai high school students as compiled by their teacher, jacob mitas, historical research on the gypsy moth by morgan currie, theodore holdt’s spastic, many-tounged “overthrow of cultural ferment”, noisician gx jupitter- larsen’s hybrid mission-statement and an undaunted songly pollen-poem by alicia cohen. also included are selections from each of the editors - two essays on music, voice and containment by composer/theorist matthew marble, considerations of listening and recorded culture by sound-artist seth nehil, and bold new poems by joseph bradshaw and bethany wright.