Ian Ganassi: Mean Numbers

Ian Ganassi Mean Numbers Publisher: China Grove Press / IsoLibris Publishing Publication date: 2016 Format: Paperback Dimensions: 9 x 6 x .32 inches Pages: 128 Language: English Signed First Edition ISBN-13: 9781944106089 The dominant techniques in the works of poet Ian Ganassi are collage and improvisation. The main source of collage material is lines from abandoned poems; other lines are taken from overheard conversation, his own reading, and some simply come to him. Improvisation weaves them together. Collage and improvisation are also central to the ongoing collaborative collage/assemblage project "The Corpses” (named for the Surrealist parlor game Exquisite Corpse) that Ian has long worked on with painter Laura Bell. The cover images of both of Ian's collections, Mean Numbers and True for the Moment, are works from the series. Ian’s poems are written in a wide variety of forms—from free verse to traditional forms to odd stanza forms and refrain patterns he has invented. None of t