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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 Guido Vermeulen on May 23, 2012 at 11:08pm

Yes, art and poem went to Mark.

A dislexic friend of mine in London writes poem as pome, close to the French word pomme (apple).

Let’s write more apples, LoL

G

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on May 23, 2012 at 1:23am

Giechel (hihihi)

Wrote this one while eating in a restaurant, dedicated to Mark Sonnenfeld. the owner of the restaurant was a bit annoyed: you come here to «WORK»?!

My reaction: saying I loved him because he considered writing as work.

The smile on his face is something I shall not forget, rewarded me with 3 free brandys! Okay, now I understand why poets can become alcoholics:::

 

 

SONG POEM: NOT THE SKIES BUT RATS HAVE| NO LIMITS

Dear Mark,

The banker lost his suit

in the euro crisis,

so recycled himself

as an erotic dancer.

Nobody watched this show on wall street.

The stripes on a narrow necktie

were sold however on war street...

Weeping stars were hiding

together in an effort to LOVE.

My face in this red mirror

starts bleeding OHNE reason,

OHNE knowledge on the edge.

Shrimp froze in the river

under the bridge.

Golden gates lead to hell

or NOT ???

Guido Vermeulen

May 2012

PS

OHNE is the German word for WITHOUT

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on May 22, 2012 at 4:00pm

Theresa,

the waves of the universe are more profound than we can imagine even!

G

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on May 22, 2012 at 12:24am

De geboorte van de onschuld

voor Theresa Williams

Met het kind op mijn rug

daalde ik vermomd als schildpad

de trap af naar de kelder

van het geheugen.

Daar schuilden de ongeborenen

samen met mijn vertrapte schaduw.

Zij boorden gaatjes in de aarde,

planten zaadjes liefde in putjes,

overgoten met wijnazijn.

Een slang baande zich een weg

van struik naar struik.

Hij zocht zijn boom maar vond het

niets.

De babies huilden diepzinning omwille van het grootste

verlies.

Translation: GV

The birth of innocence

For Theresa Williams

With the child on my back

I went disguised as turtle down

the stairs to the cellar

of memory.

There were hiding the unborn

together with my trampled shadow.

They were drilling holes in the earth,

planting tiny seeds of love in little pits,

covered them with wine vinegar.

A snake cleared a way

from bush to bush,

looking for its tree but found

nothingness.

Babies cried profoundly because of the biggest

loss.

Guido Vermeulen

May 2012

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on May 20, 2012 at 3:45pm

And another small one which went thru my head during Sunday lunch:

L’envolée n’a pas de nom propre.

Elle se nomme Liberté.

Cela est plus que suffisante.

GV

May 20, 2012

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on May 20, 2012 at 3:36pm

New one from Basso, stunning!!!

 PIETRA DURA


when schools of plankton
catch the current they take on
the illusion of life

wind convulses the trees
carves a mouth into the clouds
with its cold breath

rusticles feed off the iron
of the sunken ship
furring a floor where
fish will bury their dead

that clearing in the root forest
frogs gathered there at night
you know it's gone forever

wherever I walk
the moon follows me
even indoors it follows me
that moon of stone


May 19, 2012
ERIC BASSO
Comment by Guido Vermeulen on May 18, 2012 at 12:28am

(another short poem for Small things)

 

Small Love Token

I froze a rose

to remember you.

It did not work that well.

In the narrow opera house

binoculars wept

to seduce the water

in our rowing eyes.

In the nearby future

we shall overcome drowning

with a postcard.

GV

May 2012

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on May 15, 2012 at 10:02pm

 A new work in progress on one of my mail art tables. (I use 2).

Title: Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

Refers to a poem by Emily Dickinson.

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on May 11, 2012 at 5:04pm

More art bike reacions on BURY by Val Herman

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on May 9, 2012 at 11:37pm

Postcard collage, tribute to the Belgian artist Pol Bury (1922-2005), inspired by his book «art by bike and revolution by horse»

 

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