Michael Kasper

Michael Kasper was born (1947) and partially educated in New York City. A retired librarian, he lives in western Massachusetts. For 50 years he’s been publishing his verbo-visuals in books, and in magazines in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., France, and Japan. His books – sometimes classed as artists’ books – include Billy! Turn Down That TV! (1983), All Cotton Briefs (1985; 1992), Plans for the Night (1987), The Shapes and Spacing of the Letters (1995; 2004), Open-Book (2010), Kirghiz Steppes (2013), and Start Anywhere (forthcoming). In addition, he has translated visual literature from French – including Saint Ghetto of the Loans by Gabriel Pomerand (2006; 2023), Ideas Have No Smell by the Belgian Surrealists Paul Nougé, Louis Scutenaire, and Paul Colinet (2018), and Nougé’s The Subversion of Images (2019) – as well as prose by the German proto-Dadaist Paul Scheerbart, and postwar Polish poetry in cahoots with Piotr Sommer.