BENNETT, JOHN M. - A Flattened Face Fogs Through

"Dr. John M. Bennett (Chicago, 1942) has been a prolific contributor on the absolute fringes of the American poetry, mail-art, and underground music worlds throughout his career, while working as a scholar and archivist of Latin American literature and avant-garde writing. One of two sons to prominent cultural anthropologist John W. Bennett, he was born in Chicago and spent his childhood years living across Saint Louis, Post-War Japan, and Columbus, Ohio, often traveling with his father to archeological sites. After living and studying in Mexico and Southern California across the 1960s, he emerged from UCLA in 1970 with a PhD in Latin American literature. He then resettled in one-time childhood home of Columbus with a job as a Spanish and literature professor (and later archivist) at OSU, and began self-publishing his works at a prolific rate. His poetry explored the minutia of a seemingly bland existence in the corn walled, strip mall infested landscape of Middle America, using a uniq