REGULAR ACID CONSCIOUSNESS, Paul Ebenkamp

"With not much to / go on and not far / to go I made a / loop of the cataract / in brute wonder / woke up ready to / close a laptop"

In a 1972 interview with Mountain Girl, guitarist Jerry Garcia remarks that "I think of [the band] as being a crossroads or a pointer sign, and what we're pointing to is that there's a lot of universe available, that there's a lot experience available...we're pointing to difficulty, to bummers...we're pointing to whatever there is when we're on--whatever's happening...our vehicle, so to speak--but it's not who we are totally. Formlessness and chaos lead to new forms and new order. Closer to, probably, what the 'real' order is...more like the flow. And we just found ourselves in that space,"

...which is where this book enters, the collapse of time (long hand writing practice, speaking) and space (language, words) to ride in the flow of new forms, the path given by the absence of the path itself, a "new" regularly ancient idea of consciousness. The transitive nightfall...

REGULAR ACID CONSCIOUSNESS, Paul Ebenkamp.
8.5" x 11", top spiral-bound, 42pp.

Covers printed on French Grape Jelly paper, copy printed on French Starch White 70lb text paper.

Bound, assembled, and printed both digitally and offset in "Kingston, New York," the unceded and currently occupied lands of the Haudenosaaunee, Mohican, Munsee Lenape, and Schaghticoke, in a first edition of 150 copies.

Design by The Aliens (@thealiens.online).

Paul Ebenkamp is author of The Louder the Room the Darker the Screen (Timeless, Infinite Light), Parallel Realism (Despite Editions), Late Hiss (Desert Pavilion) and Regular Acid Consciousness (Spiral Editions). He makes music under the name Position (paulebenkamp.bandcamp.com), and over time is making a body of visual art with the working title The Bottom-Right Corner of All Things. He lives in Berkeley CA, works as a senior service aide and, with Andrew Kenower, co-curates and hosts the Woolsey Heights reading series.