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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

Started by Alfonso Filieri. Last reply by Theresa Ann Aleshire Williams Jul 12, 2011.

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Comment by 1cgqtuoblpeqc on August 3, 2011 at 12:21am: very strongly inspired by:

Comment by 1cgqtuoblpeqc on August 1, 2011 at 6:45pm: inspired by:

all of my art is:

Copyleft: This is a free work, you can copy, distribute, and modify it under the terms of the Free Art License http://artlibre.org/licence/lal/en/

Comment by 1cgqtuoblpeqc on July 30, 2011 at 7:02pm: inspired by:

Comment by 1cgqtuoblpeqc on July 30, 2011 at 2:28am: inspired with elements from:

quite possibly my favorite book ever.

Comment by De Villo Sloan on July 29, 2011 at 3:11pm: Theresa, I looked it up and I think you're right about Malcolm Cowley and Faulkner. I think maybe Edmund Wilson too? The Southern Agrarians and the New Critics who dominated so much of the 20th century certainly rallied to the cause. I notice in Wik Cowley is given credit for editing Kerouac's "On the Road" - geez, about 100 people claim credit for that one. Yip, glad you mentioned Hart Crane - "The Bridge" is there along with longer pieces such as "Paterson," "The Wasteland," "The Cantos,"...

Comment by 1cgqtuoblpeqc on July 29, 2011 at 11:42am: yes, it's not a pic; it's a youtube video.

Comment by Nancy Bell Scott on July 29, 2011 at 9:12am: It's Maurice attacking Chris for announcing over the air that Whitman enjoyed other men. It's very funny; good find, SH.

Honey and Salt was the one!

Comment by De Villo Sloan on July 29, 2011 at 7:23am: Theresa & Nancy, I like Carl Sandburg too: "Chicago - hog butcher to the world" and all that. But, Theresa, your academic colleagues labelled Sandburg "derivative" of Whitman and Pound's imagism, so he's lucky to survive at all. However, there are revivals. William Faulkner's books went out of print completely when he was alive; it looked like total failure. The New Critics - or someone - "rediscovered" him, and he went to receive a Nobel Prize. It's a mighty strange business...

Comment by 1cgqtuoblpeqc on July 29, 2011 at 7:02am

Comment by Nancy Bell Scott on July 29, 2011 at 4:37am: DVS, it's not hard to imagine burnout. And good you've learned to pace yourself. Given how taken I am with so much going on here, I realize I have to watch out for that myself. In some ways it's like a feast after being starved. Art connections in the "real" world can be pale, including in the "real" so-called art world. I don't mean to sound completely negative, which I'm not, but it's also not easy to find whole groups of artists right in your own neighborhood being innovative and open, and interested in imagination rather than decoration.

What brought Sandburg to mind I have no idea, Theresa. On second thought, maybe it was the word "industrialization" or similar that did it. A very off-beat friend, pre-college, introduced me to Sandburg; she loved him and I became taken with him myself. My copy of Sandburg is long gone, but many lines were highlighted, and I wish it were still here. In retrospect I wonder if maybe his detailed notice of industrialization (and what it meant?) is what drew me. But I was very young, and can't say now whether I truly understood him. It could have simply been his passion! Often an easy knockout punch. :--)

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