Slim volume (18 cm x 12 cm), 46 pages with colour inserts.

£7 within the UK, including postage.

£10 anywhere else in the world, including postage.

The orginal of Gnostic Gem (The Anguipede), oil paint sticks, pen, and ink, markers, colored pencils (29.5 cm x 42 cm) is also available for £150, including postage to anywhere in the world, signed and dated by the artist. Proceeds for this and After Heraclitus in general are donated to funding future zimzalla projects.

After Heraclitus is a meditation on social class (as reflected in language), language (as reflected in itself), (history of science), (philosophy as graffiti, and graffiti philosophy), (translation as graffiti), (paleontology as found art), (paleontology as evidence of auto-generative form in lower types of matter), (paleontology as evidence of panspermia), (paleontology as proof of the gods), (cosmological time, geological time and human time), (the ethics of graffiti), (the ethics of science), (the ethics of art), (the maintenance of form in fire, in liquids, and in liquid-acting solids), and living things that maintain form, yet can be perceived as ever-moving liquids.

This is a new and expanded edition of After Heraclitus. You can read about the first edition from 2019, which was accompanied by limited edition etched fossil facsimiles here.

Jesse Glass has been writing linguistically innovative poetry and prose since the 1970s. He is currently at work on a long poem which incorporates poetic texts, found poetry, erasure poetry, visual and sound poetry titled Nothing Epic: The Complete Gaha Noas Zorge based on the spiritual diaries of John Dee and Edward Kelley. His work has appeared in many anthologies including Visiting Walt from the University of Iowa Press, and in a wide range of magazines including The New England Review/ Bread Loaf Quarterly; Gargoyle; High Performance; Contemporary Performance; Assembling Magazine, Wild Orchids from New York University at Buffalo (special issue on Visionary Poets and Poetics) and websites, including UBU-Web for both visual poetry and sound work, and Penn Sound among many others. His books include Charm for Survivors; Selected Painted Books and Sequences, Black-Out In My Left Eye; Lost Poet: Four Plays; Lexical Obelisk; Trimorphic Protennoia; Man’s Wows; and The Passion Of Phineas Gage & Selected Poems. His visual poetry is featured in Poetics of Cognition: Thinking Through Experimental Poems from The University of Iowa Press. The Tate Gallery includes 33 of his painted books of poetry in its collection.

See below for a video from the zimzalla live online event, 17th April 2024. Jesse Glass reading from After Heraclitus, second edition, with the inclusion of “Thank You For Your Dire Device” and a return to the commentary poems of After Heraclitus all done at 3:30 A.M. from Shin-Urayasu, Japan while battling ghostliness, hay-fever, and double glasses.