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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 March 25, 2012 at 12:26am: Beasts in their major freedom slumber in peace tonight (from the poem BEASTS by Richard Wilbur)

New large painting, for more fotos see LAMUSAR blog

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on March 25, 2012 at 12:20am: Some books:

Paul Celan: Lightduress (poems in German and English, translated by Pierre Joris)

Green Integer editions 113

Paul Celan: Threadsuns (poems in German and English, translated by Pierre Joris)
Sun and Moon Press

A voice...Translations of selected poems by Paul Celan (poems in German and English translated by Muska Nagel)

Puckerbrush Press

On Celan:

Celan Studies by Peter Szondi

Stanford University Press

Comment by Rebecca Guyver on March 24, 2012 at 9:28pm: Guido, received your beautiful 'small painted envelope around a poem by Paul Celan' today. It is gorgeous and now you have introduced me to both Michaux and Celan. Thank you!

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on March 24, 2012 at 7:13pm: I already started ! (smiley)

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on March 23, 2012 at 4:26pm: New BASSO poem

Here's a new one for "The Ocean in a Sack."

                                                - E.

___________________________________________________________________________

                        THE LAST FISH

        I'll never forget what he said to me
            the night I told him the time had come
        the red coals glowing in the trees
              were all that was left to us of the sun

        we'd seen the torment coming
            the anguish under wet-lidded eyes
               which spoke so eloquently of a past
             too far away and knew misfortune was
            the only thing that had a future here

           the time had come and all he could
              manage to say about the trees
           and those tortured eyes was that
                you can't dig a grave with a teaspoon

           the last fish cut scarcely a silhouette
        as it rose against the branches
        desperately seeking the empty sky



ERIC BASSO, USA, March 22, 2012

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on March 22, 2012 at 11:30pm: Invitation card BUCHNER PROJECT

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on March 22, 2012 at 4:48pm: 200 YEARS GEORG BÜCHNER

PEACE for those living in huts, WAR for those living in palaces!

Friede den Hütten, Krieg den Palasten! is a sentence from the revolutionary pamphlet by the writer Georg Büchner and the priest Friedrich Weidig from 1834.

In 2013 it will be the 200th anniversary of Büchner (1813-1837).

He wrote also

Danton's death

Woyzeck

A German mail art project invites you to create art around this anniversary.

Free medium. Postcard size creations. Deadlineis 31 December 2012.

Exhibition in 2013 and doc to all contributors.

Mail art project 200 Jahre Georg Büchner

Po Box 1209

D-49356 Diepholz

GERMANY

More info on Büchner:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_B%C3%BCchner

(in English)

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_B%C3%BCchner

(in French)

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on March 21, 2012 at 12:52am: Schalt Tode! (Leap deaths)

Another small painted envelope around poetic sentence by Paul Celan

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on March 21, 2012 at 12:49am: The toll in Northern Waters sliced cliffs in Archival Tongues (David Stone)

New painting around a poem by David Stone (The jackal) followed by illustration of David himself around his own poem

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on March 21, 2012 at 12:42am: Nothing but single children with faint, moory mother smells in the throat, as trees, as blackadders, chosen and scentless (Paul Celan)

Small painted envelope around a poem by Paul Celan

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