J Walking Through the Alphabet: Collected Texts

A much-anticipated collection of poet and visionary artist julie ezelle patton’s experiments with text and image. It’s here! The first ever collection of legendary poet and performer julie ezelle patton collected works. patton, who came into her own as a multidisciplinary artist between the late 70’s-90’s in New York’s East Village describes herself as a self-fashioned old skool political spiritualist, non-consumerist, and principled jester. Over the decades, she has been known as a performance and installation artist, incorporating written, visual, and sound elements often composed in the moment. Her work has appeared in small publications but has long been elusive. Now, this fantastic selection of patton’s pioneering experimental work with texts, books, phonemes, and nature invites readers to bask in her mercurial spirit as she welcomes us into her prismatic, interdimensional digs. Read more