Donato Mancini makes visual and procedural poetry, bookworks and visual art. His books and chapbooks include: Snowline (2015), Buffet World (2011) Fact 'N' Value (2011), Hell Passport no.22 (2008), Æthel (2007), 58 Free Coffees (2006) and Ligatures (2005). Notable exhibitions of Mancini’s visual artworks have included exhibitions through Artspeak, Western Front, Gallery Atsui, Malaspina Printmaker's Society, and CSA. He performed with Gabriel Saloman in their noisepoetry/noisecomedy/noisemusic ensemble in the 2013 LIVE! Biennale of performance art, and as part of Concrete Scores at Open Space. Mancini's published critical writing includes work on the archive, time and memory in Anamnesia: Unforgetting (2011), and a discourse analysis of poetry reviews in You Must Work Harder to Write Poetry of Excellence (2012). His previous full-length book, Loitersack (2014), is a labyrinthine commonplace book where critical, theoretical and paraliterary tendencies intersect in the forms of poetry, poetics, theory, theory theatre, laugh particles and many many questions. He holds a doctorate in English from the University of British Columbia.
“Structurally rigorous … Same Diff takes poetry to the art gallery
and then there’s an explosion. … Mancini’s lists, with their
insistent repetition and procedural tenacity are monumental,
glacially shifting edifices that deface empire’s pristine walls
with their own babble. Mancini [re]says the same things over and
over, collects linguistic violence and travesties under the heading
‘same diff,’ contending that there is no essential difference
between them; that taken together they are the testimony to
patterns of physical and ideological violence. Same diff? Mancini
doesn’t think so. Neutrality is not an option.”
—Contemporary Verse 2 (CV2)
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