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From the opening lines the reader is implicated by the Comashopped Operative : "it's a tripwire / your face reversed...you study my fears in this blistered and extended universal effigy." AG Davis leads you, the reader, on an orphic journey into the Inferno of the id and/or the body, in unpredictable, ever-mutating form - and on into realms more primal yet, those charted only darkly by Artaud and Bataille and Hieronymus Bosch. Groping through winds and flakes of language in disintegration, the ¿I' is stripped away in tatters and shreds of the confessional lyric, dialogue, phil-osophy, trans-humanist speculation, prophesy, parody, social analysis, heretical theology, other-stream poetry, dissolved to seething miasmas of words, crosswinds of scattered vocabularies. Therein we find not only the swarming chaos of the unconscious and spectres of the body in trans-gression, but also, paradoxically, the reflection of a society fractured and congealed in the sway of all of these forces, and the technology through which that society manifests itself, infects or is infected by the primordial process of consciousness, its annihilation and transcendence.

"This poem, this act of fragmented writing, isn't located anywhere particular, but within itself. A scrolling well-crafted stream of consciousness. It accumulates and disperses, accumulates and disperses then bifurcates and accumulates further. Surprise. You can juxtapose anything with anything else and find resolution. Word-filled bubbles emerge, rise and pop all around your reading. Sheila's a phrase collagist pushing opposing forces together. A startling diarist. A collector of commentary of the day, of the eyes, of how the real unravels to extra uncommon clarity. This will take you places jarring and jagged, awkwardly familiar like deja vu and unexpectedly new. This book is that." - Nico Vassilakis.

Rêvenance is dedicated to the forgotten or untold histories of 19th Century avant-garde and dissenting countercultures. It promotes history practiced as game, activism, trans-generational collaboration, communal memory, which refuses to describe history as finished: a committed historiography, which does not stand apart from its object: intellectual and precise, yet ludic and multi-form, one moment manifest as an essay, the next as a poem. A historiography created within the utopian fringe, and for the same community, responsive to our changing conditions, needs, and desires. A historiography that we take personally, merging imperceptibly into experiments in daily life, social praxis, and thought. Vol. I. Issues 1-5 of of Rêvenance reproduced exactly in a single perfect-bound volume, preceded by a new preface by the editor and a complete table of contents, and followed by a full index of all five issues. Future volumes will be released every five issues, with continually updated index.