I woke up unflappably counterfeited by Crank Sturgeon and Marcel Herms

[Marcel Herms]

I woke up unflappably counterfeited (published by Alien Buddha Press) is a foray into visual & cut-up poetry, search engine prose, and impossible theatrical scenarios. The present work is the result of an intensive cooperation in which Crank Sturgeon and Marcel Herms reprocessed each other’s creations. In a series of email and physical exchanges, they lifted the other’s words and art from the page and responded to it, building off echoes, regurgitating, and squeezing meaning out of something that came from pure spam. Crank Sturgeon and Marcel Herms have been active for many years in visual works, noise, poetry, and related forms of expression. Their collective output is often hidden deep underground, where it pushes at the limits of what is possible.