M. Kasper

Among M. Kasper’s translations are The Subversion of Images by Paul Nougé (Wakefield Press), Ideas Have No Smell: Three Belgian Surrealist Booklets (UDP), The Development of Aerial Militarism by Paul Scheerbart (UDP), and Saint Ghetto of the Loans by Gabriel Pomerand (with Bhamati Viswanathan; UDP). Kasper — who was born in the Bronx (1947), lived overseas for some years, and worked as a librarian for many at Amherst College in western Massachusetts — has also published a dozen artists books, including All Cotton Briefs (2nd ed., Benzene & the Xeric Foundation), Billy! Turn Down That TV! (Diana’s Bimonthly), Plans for the Night (Benzene), The Shapes and Spacing of the Letters (2nd ed., highmoonoon & the London Institute of ‘Pataphysics), Open-Book (UDP), and Kirghiz Steppes: Accumulated Verbo-Visuals  (Black Scat). As Christopher Middleton once said, “A Kasper a day keeps the moodles away.”