“The fifty typewriter poems in this volume are both thought provoking and beautifully crafted.”—Geist
“I’m so glad this book exists—for what it means not only to me to read it now, but for what it will mean to others who are looking for a way into vispo that speaks to them and their lives. I love that it exists for the people who are going to be totally blown away by Spinosa and Siklosi’s conversation, having never read anything quite like that before. This book is a real gift to vispo, its fans and present and future practitioners.”—Helen Hajnoczky, A Teacozy Is a Sometimes
“What makes Dani Spinosa’s OO: Typewriter Poems exciting is the way she engages the linguistic and formal features of typewriter-based visual poetry while also engaging the histories and discourses that haunt avant-garde literature generally, and visual poetry specifically.”—Prairie Fire
“This collection is both Spinosa’s personal study in the history of visual and concrete poetry as well as a collection of original works… She’s clearly done her research, and if one were even to put together an anthology of or essay on the history of concrete and visual poetries, this would be the list of names included. Or, given Spinosa’s deliberate inclusion of these multiple women practitioners, this is the list of names that should be included; and hopefully, in part through Spinosa’s work, a list of names that will no longer be overlooked.”—rob mclennan
“Not only an excellent, well-researched overview of the history and tradition of typewritten visual poetry, but also—what a sly female response to it!”—Petra Schulze-Wollgast
“WTF does Dani Spinosa think she is doing copying all these (mostly) male poets? Lock up your typewriters! Hide your anthologies of classic visual poetry! Protect yourself and the literary tradition from the stealth interventions of Spinosa, who is (mis)appropriating works by every conceivable author of graphically scored verse in the name of some kind of femmeship that involves conversations with the dead as well as the living. The former are silent on the matter and the former? We shall see. Rarely has mimicry been used to such high-level hermeneutic ends.”—Johanna Drucker
“Dani Spinosa’s OO pushes buttons, turns keys, and swipes, steals and homages all over poetry. Every poem demands you LOOK AGAIN! and see where voices slip between the keystrokes. Extravagant, interruptive, declarative and a real kick in the eyeballs.”—derek beaulieu