PICTURED WORLDS ~

 

R E A D   M E

   Abrams

SAINT GHETTO OF THE LOANS ~

 

R E A D    M E

In 1945, after wartime on the run and in the Resistance, Gabriel Pomerand (1925-1972) met the young Romanian refugee Isidore Isou and together they launched the Lettrist movement. They espoused a philosophy of constant creative renewal in which, among other things, letterforms were to be the basis, the underlying principle, of future artwork. Along with their followers, Pomerand and Isou instigated dozens of performances, exhibits, and publications in a decade-long burst of energy. Pomerand was the mouthpiece of the movement in its first years. He organized scandalous public lectures, gave reputedly remarkable performances of sound poetry, painted oils, and made an award-winning short movie. His prolific writing over the years included innovative artists books and novels, including Saint Ghetto of the Loans, 1950 (republished by UDP in 2006 with an English translation), as well as screenplays, cultural criticism, and book reviews.

UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE

RON PADGETT REMEMBERS JOE BRAINARD ~

 

          "His watchword was to be open"

JOHN KOETHE ~

 

Fear of the Future

In the end one simply withdraws

From others and time, one's own time,

Becoming an imaginary Everyman

Inhabiting a few rooms, personifying

The urge to tend one's garden,

A character of no strong attachments

Who made nothing happen, and to whom

Nothing ever actually happened — a fictitious

Man whose life was over from the start,

Like a diary or a daybook whose poems

And stories told the same story over

And over again, or no story. The pictures

And paintings hang crooked on the walls,

The limbs beneath the sheets are frail and cold

And morning is an exercise in memory

Of a long failure, and of the years

Mirrored in the face of the immaculate

Child who can't believe he's old.

___________________

John Koethe

Walking Backwards

        poems 1966-2016

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

ALBERT KING ~

 

Stax 8546

RE-READ: BEI DAO, MIDNIGHT'S GATE ~

 

R E A D    M E

New Directions, 2005

SAX MALLARD ~

 

(ARCHIVE) ALLEN GINSBERG READS TO WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY ~

 

A long time ago but still present

Allen Ginsberg read his poem of Wales to William F. Buckley

and opposing but charmed host

ALICE NOTLEY ~

 

R E A D    M E

      The Song Cave, 2023

THE MAN WHO SKIED DOWN EVEREST ~

 

    Yuichiro Miura

CAT POWER, "WOMAN" ~

 

featuring Lana Del Ray

JOE NAPORA ~

 

The Stone Garden Poems expand upon an earlier book called, simply, Stone Garden. Both are poems based upon photographs of The Temple of Tolerance assembled by Jim Bowsher in Wapakoneta, Ohio, an art work that rivals the Simon Rodia Towers of Los Angeles.

BullHead Books

 2023

CHILDREN'S BOOK ART ~

 

P I C T U R E D     W O R L D S

Abrams 2023

CHARLES V. HAMILTON ~

 

C H A R L E S  V.  H A M I L T O N

In their 1967 book, “Black Power,” Dr. Hamilton and Stokely Carmichael concluded that racism was embedded in the nation’s institutions.Credit...Vintage

SISTER ROSETTA THARPE, FRANCE 1966 ~

 

ALEKSEI NAVALNY ~

 

ALEKSEI  NAVALNY

W i t n e s s

Alexei Anatolyevich Navalny (Russian: Алексей Анатольевич Навальный, IPA: [ɐlʲɪkˈsʲej ɐnɐˈtolʲjɪvʲɪtɕnɐˈvalʲnɨj]; 4 June 1976 – 16 February 2024) 

photo: New York Times

READ HIROKO OYAMADA ~

 

N E W   D I R E C T I O N S

MORE FRIEDERIKE MAYROCKER ~

 

F R I E D E R I K E    M A Y R O C K E R

STEPH CURRY, SHOOTER ~

 

     Steph Curry

GREAT WOMEN PAINTERS ~

 

R E A D    M E

Phaidon, 2022