Glenn Bach

@atlascorpus.bsky.social

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(Retired) sound artist. Long poem Atlas in progress since 2003: EVAD out now from above/ground press. Micro-chap excerpts in 2024 from @ghostcitypress.bsky.social and @stonecorpse.com. https://glennbach.com/

‘The Green Issue’ - Ben Ketterer. Wonderful illustration of a winter tree watching over a table displaying copies of the latest issue of Misophist Magazine
An overlay of multiple texts with some words showing through but most obscured and unreadable.
Cover of Being-Time: A Practitioner's Guide to Dogen's Shobogenzo Uji, by Shinshu Roberts. Cover image is a painting of a snow-covered mountain against a cloudy sky.
Overhead view of a cardboard box filled with copies of EVAD, the first full chapbook from the Atlas long poem. The cover photograph is a reproduction of a photo collage of the Long Beach skyline in the East Village Arts District, 2006.
front cover, EVAD, by Glenn Bach. Collage of photographs of Long Beach skyline: buildings, signage, and palm trees against blue skies.
title graphic for above/ground press. founded July 1993 : CELEBRATING THIRTY-PLUS YEARS OF CONTINUOUS ACTIVITY + MORE THAN 1400 PUBLICATIONS TO DATE! Ottawa-based poetry chapbook + broadside publisher; publisher of The Peter F. Yacht Club (a writer's group magazine) + Touch the Donkey (a small poetry magazine) + G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] + periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics, as well as home of The Factory Reading Series (founded January 1993); edited/published/curated by rob mclennan
EVERY PLACE DESERVES AN ATLAS, an atlas is at least implicit in every place, and to say that is to ask first of all what a place is. Places are leaky containers. They always refer beyond themselves, whether island or mainland, and can be imagined in various scales, from the drama of a back alley to transcontinental geopolitical forces and global climate. What we call places are stable locations with unstable converging forces that cannot be delineated either by fences on the ground or by boundaries in the imagination—or by the perimeter of the map. Something is always coming from elsewhere, whether it's wind, water, immigrants, trade goods, or ideas. The local exists—an endemic species may evolve out of those circumstances, or the human equivalent— but it exists in relation, whether symbiotic with or sanctuary from the larger world. Pocatello, Idaho, has had its inventions and tragedies: a heartbreak that can be mapped out in six blocks, with bars and slammed doors and a bedroom; the tale of what happened to the lands of the Shoshone and Bannock; a gold rush; the larger forces of geology and climate and animal migration and watersheds. Petaluma, California, has its radical chicken farmers and Coast Miwok name and its atlas waiting to happen, as do Flint and Buffalo, Yellowknife and Chimayo. The cup of coffee in your hand has origins reaching across the region and the world. A city is a particular kind of place, perhaps best described as many worlds in one place; it compounds many versions without quite reconciling them, though some cross over to live in multiple worlds—in Chinatown or queer space, in a drug underworld or a university community, in a church's sphere or a hospital's intersections.
Community Mausoleum presents a celebration of Eric Wallgren's new chapbook Icewalker & Dirtwork, which has just been published by Community Mausoleum. Eric Wallgren will read poems. Alyssa Perry also has a new book called Oily Doily out from Bench Editions. Alyssa Perry will read poems. Caryl Pagel will read poems. Glenn Bach will read poems. This event will take place at The Rhizome House in Cleveland Heights, Ohio on November 22, 2024. It will start at 7 P.M. eastern time.
screenshot of my Hemlock Shakedown page on Bluesky, a 'radio station' showcasing free folk, psych rock, drone, field recordings, dub, and other exploratory sounds. Mostly Bandcamp.
Closeup of wood bark, blues and grays.
A photograph of Lower Shaker Lake in Cleveland, Ohio. A line of late autumn trees reflected almost perfectly on the placid surface of a lake, with moody clouds in the sky and their reflections in the water.
“We tend to think of landscapes as affecting us most strongly when we are in them or on them, when they offer us the primary sensations of touch and sight. But there are also the landscapes we bear with us in absentia, those places that live on in memory long after they have withdrawn in actuality, and such places—retreated to most often when we are most remote from them—are among the most important landscapes we possess.”
Community Mausoleum presents a celebration of Eric Wallgren's new chapbook Icewalker & Dirtwork, which has just been published by Community Mausoleum. Eric Wallgren will read poems. Alyssa Perry also has a new book called Oily Doily out from Bench Editions. Alyssa Perry will read poems. Caryl Pagel will read poems. Glenn Bach will read poems. This event will take place at The Rhizome House in Cleveland Heights, Ohio on November 22, 2024. It will start at 7 P.M. eastern time.
leaves from Laurel Bay Fig on a cream colored background, with a brown ruler on the bottom
cover image for "cricket (eclipse)" a series of three vertically stacked, interlocking mandalas in dark grey lines with pops of purple and green at key intersections. On a dark grey background.
a winter scene of a frozen lake with a layer of snow against a line of dark trees and cloudy sky
Cover art by Mike Ferguson, white text in all caps overlaid on navy blue background
Circular badge of a bird in flight with the BlazeVOX logo at the top.
Lower Shaker Lake, Cleveland, Ohio. A line of dense trees reflected in a calm lake surface, with dark clouds, traces of blue sky, and the rising sun.
image of four chapbooks by Jessica Smith published by above/ground press
Lower Shaker Lake, a row of summer trees and their reflection in a still lake. Green foliage in the foreground. Blue-gray sky.