John Bloomberg-Rissman has spent a dozen years or so working on a long project called Zeitgeist Spam. No Sounds of My Own Making (Leafe Press, 2007), Flux, Clot & Froth (Meritage Press, 2010) and the text in A PICTURE OF EVERYONE I LOVE PASSES THROUGH ME (Lunar Chandelier Press, 2016) are all of that project. In the House of the Hangman, a 2,000,000-word meta-text is forthcoming. Additionally, he is the editor or co-editor of several volumes, the most recent being Poems for the Millennium 5: Barbaric, Vast & Wild (Black Widow Press, 2015) co-edited with Jerome Rothenberg. He lives outside of Los Angeles and has worked for many years in the field of rare books and library acquisitions.
