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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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LITERATURE and ART

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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 yves maraux on August 29, 2012 at 6:01pm

to prevent my brain to fall apart i made non stop commitment in mine-clearing operations & became a specialist . As the focus was on human exhibit i remember the blond nurse going out of the train on the platform of an indian station  in a Bromfield novel (don't They know that ?) ; i spot & bought second hand La mousson , wrong , was probably in Nights of Bombay !

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on August 29, 2012 at 10:16am

Another painted envelope as tribute to the Belgian poet Jacques Izoard

Translated fragments of Jacques’poetry

Let’s walked naked in the streets

What they say on blue

will kill the girls

Let’s transform the demolished houses

into boats

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on August 29, 2012 at 10:14am

New poetry edition by David Stone: THE MEMORY STRAIT with collages on front and back cover by me

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on August 26, 2012 at 4:49pm

Idea in a notebook for a large work, fusion of collage (image and text) and ink graphics around the abstract drawing of an octopussy including various -isms that created a misery for mankind, without any distinction, despite differences. A call for more freedom, fun, love, healthy anarchy against all kinds of rules and regulations imposed on us by all these -isms, the new suffocating religions of our times!

For more details: visit

http://lamusar.blogspot.be/2012/08/vive-le-fun-love-anarchy.html

A tribute to Emma Goldman

INFO:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Goldman

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/e/emma_goldman.html

IF VOTING CHANGED ANYTHING, THEY’D MAKE IT ILLEGAL (EG)

Comment by Nancy Bell Scott on August 25, 2012 at 7:20pm

It's a secret, I think. He has never told me when I've asked. :--} 

Theresa, watch your mailbox the next few days.

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on August 25, 2012 at 6:27pm

Paintings that are a translation in my visual world of some of the DREAM SONGS poem by John Berryman:

1) Life friends, is boring.

We must not say so.

2) In the middle of a short war with his wife,

deep in the middle, in short, of a war,

he could not say whether to sing

3) I brood upon your face,

the geography of grief

(on the suicide of Sylvia Plath)

4) I have strained everything

except my ears

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on August 24, 2012 at 2:48pm

WALK SOUTHEAST INTO THE GRASS UNTIL A HUGE BIRD APPEARS by Theresa Williams for GV, art and poem

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on August 23, 2012 at 6:41pm

Collage by Anete Ulmane, Latvia. I named it THE LOST SMELL OF ROSES.

The collage is an echo of a poem I wrote earlier around a large painting. I repeat it below and you’ll see the connection.

THE ABDICATION OF THE EBONY KING





The ebony king abdicated

when captain nature lost its ship

& the smell of roses became

a far-away memory

painted on the walls of a hidden cave

patiently waiting on a sudden discovery

 

Guido Vermeulen

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on August 23, 2012 at 6:38pm

Poem of Paul Eluard in an English translation and handwritten by Anete Ulmane from Latvia on a mail art envelope to me.

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on August 23, 2012 at 6:36pm

A new friend from compadre BASSO. I remember meeting him in 1997 thru David Stone who said to me: Eric is a genius. YEP, you betcha.

FOURTH EYE.


through a veil of mirrors
fumes as we climbed down to
where headwaters once raced
but found only sand and shells

down from sodden forests
past fish bones etched
in a slab of brittle wood

trees eating the pink wound
in the sky long before it
could begin to bleed

that eye turned inward and
the leather faces squashed
black by time and muck whose
pictures made Freud faint

that crawl space under
the stairs filled with
mouse skulls

we knew the future was
closer now than ever

the dark corner of the cellar
where the world ends


ERIC BASSO
August 23, 2012

 

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