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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

 

MIDDLE:

Automatic writing by Nancy Bell Scott.

 

BOTTOM:

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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Literature and Art 1 Reply

 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 February 19, 2012 at 3:10am

NATURE CREATES HER OWN BRACKETS

Inspired by a poem from SAPPHO (or what’s left of it)

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on February 19, 2012 at 3:08am

I AM HOLDING SPRING WITH PRECAUTION

Inspired by a poem from Odysseus ELYTIS

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on February 19, 2012 at 3:06am

My response to Theresa’s wonderful ATC set:

Large painted collage envelope NO HUMAN GLORY IN WAR around verses from Galway Kinnell:

Kneel on the scorched earth

in the shapes of men and animals

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on February 18, 2012 at 1:21am

Hi Theresa,

 

Will go thru my archives for you, did a few ABC’s in the past for these (excellent) mail art zines  (one on poets and poetry and one on femail artists).

The last topic got me in trouble (why does a man does this?! yeah well, if nobody femail does this in the network I’m volunteering gladly!!!’

 

G

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on February 18, 2012 at 12:18am

Dear Theresa,

Your 11 ATC arrived, loved them all and will publish them on LAMUSAR.

The ABC concept is close to a topic in the mail art publications NUMERO (Wilfiried Nold, Germany) and KAIRAN (Gianni Simone, JAPAN), so you are continuing a tradition, without knowing perhaps.

Guido

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on February 15, 2012 at 11:55pm

LET OUR SCARS FALL IN LOVE (from The book of nightmares by Galway Kinnell)

Large painted envelope I made for K Frank and Witta Jensen in Denmark

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on February 15, 2012 at 11:52pm

Large painted envelope for David Stone, USA
around another fragment of his poem The crystal band:

The eaters of night
cast half chewed
galaxies through
the iron gate

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on February 15, 2012 at 7:50am

My response to Liza:

Liza,

Het draagvlak van de tijd

loopt mank.

De kreupele stotteraar vertelt

aan de bedelstenen van de vergeetput

hoe hij ooit Demosthenes was,

welsprakend sprankelend,

maar dan verkoos terug

te zwijgen, zwoegend omwille van

het trotse onrecht in de wereld.

Het opgedroogde zweet

in het rode korenveld

is hiervan stil en getuige.

Guido Vermeulen

15 februari 2012

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on February 14, 2012 at 11:30pm

The naked serpent poem by Liza Leyla, Belgium

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on February 11, 2012 at 12:34am

Wow, from Rose Becard: a photo with some flowers from the garden of Emily Dickinson in Amherst, Massachusetts

 

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