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Literature and Art

For people who read and enjoy good literature--literary classics or literary contemporary and like to make art about it.  Using literature as inspiration for our art.  Also for people interested in writing letters about literature.  This is also a meeting place for The New Arzamas Literary Circle, which is dedicated to writing creative letters on literary topics. 

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Handmade Ezra Pound (Ezruckus Poundamonium) paper doll for a series of skits in which E.P is the main star. --Theresa Williams

 

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Automatic writing by Nancy Bell Scott.

 

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One of a set of cards made while contemplating the poet Theodore Roethke.  On November 12, Roethke suffered the first of what was to be many mental episodes.  It happened in the cold Michigan woods, and he described the experience as having a "secret" revealed to him, which he said was the secret of "Nijinsky."  Nijinsky was a famous ballet dancer who was institutionalized for schizophrenia.  With your permission, I'd like to post your artwork at my blog:  The Letter Project.   I'm also looking for letters about literature and creativity.  All works from the blog have gone through the postal system.

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 gentili Signori poeti e artisti visivi, sono felice di far parte di questo gruppo.Ecco il perchè.Da sempre il mio lavoro cammina tra immagine e parola.Testo e materia visiva.Poesia e carta dipinta…Continue

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Comment by Zois on August 22, 2012 at 3:04am

Thank you Guido. In this insane world art and poetry keep making sense for the human heart.

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on August 21, 2012 at 3:38am

Large painted envelope around passage in my present artist notebook:

3 friends on a cosmic ship reaching the end of slavery

Dear Cheryl,

3 friends on a cosmic ship

traveled from Nowhere to Africa’s breath

WHY, oh WHY shouted the people in Nowhere land

Because it’s better to be in KWA land

than in Nothingness country

answered the breakdown boat

& added: I’ll disintegrate when landing

& that’s a good thing, no mistake here!

The trio will join the wild animals

on the saxophone savannah

& hallelujah, servant-girls

will vanish together witch landowners

but in a slight different order:

first the owners, then the girls.

Guido Vermeulen

aprrox 21 August 2012 but I can be wrong)


Dedicated to Cheryl Penn in South Africa

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on August 21, 2012 at 3:36am

FOLLOW THAT SOUND

Large painted envelope around a fragment of my present artist notebook:

FOLLOW THAT SOUND!



- Where do we go from here?

- Follow that sound.

- What is it?

- The vibration of the heart.

- Once they told me I had no heart?

- That’s a lie, a majestic lie, but a lie!

(From the conversations between birds)




Comment by Guido Vermeulen on August 20, 2012 at 1:34am

From Stephen Boyling, Canada

JOYCE REVISING FINNEGAN’S WAKE

Comment by Zois on August 19, 2012 at 11:18pm

 

Hallo Lieve Guido, Dank U wel.  Your  ethereal and real paintings flow from your words making the thought tangible then floating back into your images of what is usually inexpressible sadnesses and unity with life in the earth. I only want to tell you what happens in me when holding your images and read your words.  I get tangled in my own words.

Elizabeth, Liesje to you

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on August 16, 2012 at 11:03pm

Yesterday evening: idea to start a new collection of poems in Dutch, after the publication of Fairy Tales in the clouds.

Working title: ONTHOOFDE TIJD (time beheaded)

First text is an automatic one that I wrote while watching an episode of True Blood season 4. 

Goes like this:

STRANGE MUSIC

De huizen draven voorbij

als zieke renpaarden aan de Noordzee

terwijl de straten stilstaan op de nietsvermoedende dijk.

Iets klopt niet in dit Oostendse Ensorplaatje

maar zo zijn er wel meer en meer

situaties gevangen tussen zand en spiegelwater.

Ik projecteer mijn angsten niet in jouw lijf

ook al is dit moeilijk en maanonwaardig.

Het klosgaren draai ik rond mijn middel-

vinger terwijl die vleugels uitprobeert

al spinnend in het web van koning tijd.

Zij krolt haar rug en preekt mijn tanden

stuk en kaal.

Filterdun

is het geheugen van de leugen.

Het lookgehalte in die woorden

schrikt zelfs de vampieren af

in de opperste regionen van de wereldbank.

De boerenkinkel aapt de teenschimmel na

van papa woekeraar en mama staatsterreur.

Het beentje kraakt in de staart van de komeet

kramiekaanslag.

Het zitvlak van de stoel is zo warm

& verleidelijk dat ik de kop afruk

van mister telefoon. Hij spartelt niet.

Hij smelt het water van een zonneslag.

Terwijl wij ons verkleden als June en Betsy

duikt gele verf onder als broodkruim anderhalf & beleg

in de luwte van de donkere poppenkast.

Het blauwe oog is dom en flets en koud,

een pannenkoek zonder suiker

of kraakgeweld.

Het grint onder kattenpoten

leidt naar het centrum van de verboden stad

in country NON EXIST.

Ik heb het hoofd van de pop

opgeborgen in de kelderstop

van de hoogste toestemming.

Samen berijden wij met alle remmen los

de drang van het zoete bloed & de zuurtegraad van regen

op de draaimolen van gelijkgestemde

violen in het vergeten kwadrant van lijfverraad.

De muziek stokt, stopt en toch … gaat hij door!

Als lieve cirkel in haar borst in maanopstand.

 

Guido Vermeulen

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on August 14, 2012 at 12:06am

From Rebecca Guyver

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on August 10, 2012 at 11:32pm

HOW THE FBI orders pizza, from Zois

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on August 9, 2012 at 6:08pm

A new one from my friend EB

TRACE ELEMENTS



the tilted house at the edge of
the marsh and the gas rising

but the floors are level
the fresh sheets spread and
tucked for a funeral

the embers were still cooling

on Persepolis as a lone figure
stumbled toward you
through the purple haze

sand stirred into a funnel on
an ocean floor that no one saw
monsters were dying there
some who hardly lived at all
cut down by their deformities

morning again
but I am asleep


ERIC BASSO

August 8, 2012

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on August 7, 2012 at 11:23pm

KARIN GREENWOOD, The Sun God

THE SUN GOD

Poem around art from Karin Greenwood

I am a legend in the sky

he said to the snails

surfing on the clouds

Without me waves would not

court the sea

Without me waves would not

reach for heaven

Watch me set

is a better cure

against depression

than taking your precious

sponsored medicines

Watch me rise

so oranges can grow

instead of perishing

in the moonlight

Watch me shine with care

so you can find

a person lost downtown

like Vicky Vandermeers

My secret is this:

I am pistachio nuts

because of the lack

of greens

If I am patriarch or matriarch

has no importance

I am god and when I die and die I will

I shall shout the rooftop from the sky

& you will join me in my cries.

Guido Vermeulen

7 August 2012

 

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