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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

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Comment by Guido Vermeulen on September 12, 2012 at 5:24pm: Les vases communicantes, yes, nearly forgot this, all these switches between tongues, giggle. Do you know the writings of Bataille by the way?

Comment by Claire (aka Cleo) on September 11, 2012 at 11:46pm: lol!(re MK reference)

Ah, Nadja is one of my "bible"s, as it were! I would strongly recommend his essays - I have found them oft' mind-blowing! "Communicating Vessels" changed my life...

re: THE HEARING TRUMPET: I have! ^_^ Cool! I'll look for The Weird ... Thanks for the heads up cher!

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on September 11, 2012 at 11:07pm: I share your enthusiasm for Max E, for me the greatest artist that ever lived (oops, this could get me into trouble).

Try to find and read THE HEARING TRUMPET from Leonora Carrington, so !!!!

LC was one of the lovers of ME, not that this matters.

Excellent new anthology is THE WEIRD, a compendium of strange and dark stories, including the Beak Doctor by Basso and I publish some of his poems on this group on a regular base

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on September 11, 2012 at 11:02pm: NADIA is an essential novel (AMOUR FOU / Crazy Love, does not work for me in English, LoL). His manifestios (1-2-3) are as essential as The communist manifesto (Marx and Engels) and Mein Kampf (Hitler), no LoL

Comment by Claire (aka Cleo) on September 11, 2012 at 6:34pm: (oh, not that I'm brilliant of crs! meant bit of an a-hole %_^)

Comment by Claire (aka Cleo) on September 11, 2012 at 6:32pm: ha ha ha - "Brilliant" & "ass hole" seem to go together rather frequently I've found... (i'm a bit of one myself %_^) Have you read any of his non fiction? Friggin' amazing!!! His poetry too. (Funny, I love surrealist philos. & lit, don't usually care much for the vis. art though - 'cept Ernst)

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on September 11, 2012 at 5:08pm: Just posted something on FB in the sense of read Berryman before you Yadadadadadadada etcetera (LoL)

Breton is one of my favorite ass holes!

More LoL

Comment by Claire (aka Cleo) on September 11, 2012 at 1:14am: Oh Guido, I also love the "Question..." you sent to Zois!

Comment by Claire (aka Cleo) on September 11, 2012 at 12:13am: I don't find life boring at all, yet, context of course... Nonetheless, I 1st read it as "Life friends are boring," and thought, sometimes, yes - lol! Here's one of my favorite lines:

"Beauty must be convulsive, or not at all." - Andre Breton

I love it when art pushes buttons/makes people think and/or react strongly! ^_^ "...even more kicking ...." sound like the right approach to me! For some reason, I almost never take criticism to heart - as I long as I know what my intention was in creation, and if I feel that I reached it, 'tis cool. Who cares if some don't get it? It's not for them, I'm sure there are plenty of other things that are (touch them). Some do get it, & those are the one's we create for I believe... If vast universals were always the case (or even existed!), I doubt that the special, the anomalous, would have the intense (individual) resonance it sometimes does... Things need to stick out, even irk or jar... If they didn't, I imagine life would indeed be boring! (in my book anyway %_^)

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on September 10, 2012 at 11:09pm: Thank you Claire, I got complimented on the image on Facebook but attacked because of the words that were from Berryman! Sometimes that makes me mad, sometimes that makes me sad, sometimes that inspires me to make another work of art that is even more kicking ....

OH SISTER!

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