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Comment by Guido Vermeulen on March 8, 2012 at 6:30pm

Update on BASSO with message received from Eric

Three new articles were posted yesterday on the Web site, plus a selection of my poems.

Drowning in Time: The Work of Eric Basso:
http://weirdfictionreview.com/2012/03/drowning-in-time-the-work-of-eric-basso/

Caught in a Moment: The Poetry of Eric Basso:
http://weirdfictionreview.com/2012/03/caught-in-a-moment-the-poetry-of-eric-basso/

An Encounter with "The Beak Doctor" by D.F. Lewis:
http://weirdfictionreview.com/2012/03/an-encounter-with-the-beak-doctor/\

A Selection Of Eric Basso's Poems:
http://weirdfictionreview.com/2012/03/selected-poetry-of-eric-basso/

Matthew Pridham's "Drowning in Time" is an absolute knockout. The editors think it's the best essay yet on any of the writers whose work appears in the big anthology.

The other new pieces are also excellent. Finally, after thirty-five years, the veil of befuddlement and incomprehension has been lifted.

- E.

By the way my favorite Basso book is BARTHOLEMEW FAIR (GV)

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on March 7, 2012 at 5:53pm

A tribute to the French Belgian poet Jacques IZOARD (1936-2008)
One of the finest poets in the French language and a close personal friend

Painting by Camille de Taeye, Belgium
followed by a photo by GV with mask of Izoard, realized by Jack Ross, Belgium
Photo and book with cover by Robert Varlez, Belgium (his closest friend)
Collage in collection GV, also the one rejected by the stupid editor of this re-edition of 2 early poetry collections.

Fragment of one his stunning poems:

Jette un arbre entier
dans le puits sec et vide
Tu verras cent oiseaux
faire boule de bleu
dans la chambre immobile ...

Throw a whole tree
in a dry and empty well
You will see a thousand birds
making a ball of blue
in the frozen room

(translation: GV)

Oh, dear Jacques, I miss you, your presence and the golden light of your poems ....
(1 day after I became 58; thanks also for being a real and gentle mentor to French poetry)

Comment by Nancy Bell Scott on March 7, 2012 at 3:52pm

That's fantastic work, Susanna--especially love your Virginia Woolf. And Paul Auster. His sister and I were best friends in school so he always stands out!

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on March 7, 2012 at 1:55pm

Great stuff Susanna!

There is a mail art project on Marcel Proust right now!

 

Also Eric Basso (USA) is finally getting the credit he deserves!

 

Editorial by Adam Mills:

http://weirdfictionreview.com/2012/03/editorial-welcome-to-eric-basso-week/
Interview:

http://weirdfictionreview.com/2012/03/an-interview-with-eric-basso-nothing-is-too-weird/
Larry Nolan, "The Dissolving World of 'The Beak Doctor.'" http://weirdfictionreview.com/2012/03/weirdfictionreview-coms-101-weird-writers-5%E2%80%89-%E2%80%89eric-basso/
"The Beak Doctor" excerpt:

 http://weirdfictionreview.com/2012/03/excerpt-the-beak-doctor-by-eric-basso/

 

Guido

Comment by Susanna Lakner on March 7, 2012 at 9:11am

Virginia Woolf

Marcel Proust

Lewis Caroll

Paul Auster

Comment by Susanna Lakner on March 7, 2012 at 7:57am

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on February 24, 2012 at 11:59pm

Art by M. Nidham from Oman

Poem around it by GV

THE HIDDEN EYES and THE HIDDEN HEART

Poem for M. NIDHAM


The hidden eyes in flowers
seduce the gates of heaven

Birds pick up their scent
distribute them in the faraway trees

Umbrellas in the rain
are they and weightless perfumes

In the night fish glow
to light the oceans

They learned this trick
from desert sand and roses

They teach me also how to paint the horizon
with all the colours of the hidden heart

Guido Vermeulen, 24 February 2012

Comment by Susan McAllister on February 24, 2012 at 11:33am

Hey Guido, Thanks I would love to have a copy of it. I was a bit surprised that there are so many women in IUOMA because I had always hear mail art was primarily a guy thing. I appreciate your support of women artists.

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on February 19, 2012 at 6:43am

Hi Susan,

That ABC was published in a Kairan magazine, not on line I’m afraid; could xrox it for you if you want?

G

 

PS

The topic is close to my heart in the sense that the guy who introduced me to mail art in 1993 «warned» me that there were only a few femail mail artists in the network, a real «minority»!

When I made an inventory of my personal network at the end of 1994 more than 50 % were femail!

The guy was astonished and could not understand it at all.

I said to him: you are into pigs and I am into signs and stones, which is spiritual in essence and women relate to that. I am not sure he understood what I was trying to explain... (LoL)

Comment by Susan McAllister on February 19, 2012 at 5:00am

Hey Guido, Is there some place we can see the mail art zine on woman artists? Thanks.

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