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Les artistes constituent l’âme et L’espace de respiration d’une societé et une societé sans âme est vouée à l’extinction ce qui-vous en conviendrez- est un fort mauvais présage
patchen: painting poems
by Art Chantry: seemingly forgotten and long overlooked is kenneth patchen. this guy is one of those american originals, a guy who hacked out his own path through the wilderness and just kept hacking away his entire life. people either … Continue reading
grass roots
Nihilism and anarchism? If, as you read a book, you feel that the author hates you and all the fabric of your life, that his chief purposes in writing are to communicate to you his loathing and his scorn, and … Continue reading
whose face did he see?
There is a paradox to Henry Miller. The two Tropics books are among the foulest books ever written. Cancer is bad enough, but Capricorn gets worse as it goes on and reached depths of vileness which are really indescribable. Miller’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Aristophanes, ben grauer, Carl Jung, Charles Baudelaire, D.H. Lawrence, Francois Rabelais, Henry Miller, James Joyce, karl shapiro, Lawrence Durrell, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, William Blake
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the essential thing is to want to sing
Having read the first few sentences of Tropic of Cancer, you will remember them. Henry Miller can use the language. He writes strong, biting, memorable, vivid prose. Often it is unjust to begin criticizing a book by taking out its … Continue reading
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Tagged alfred perles, Allen Ginsberg, anais nin, Beat Poets, ben grauer, ben grauer interview henry miller, Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, karl shapiro, Lawrence Durrell, Le sphinx paris, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, William S. Burroughs, Wittgenstein
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streaming the villa borghese
When you first start reading Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer, it is easy to reach the verdict it was written during a series of lengthy drinking bouts. Could man be drunk for ever With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should … Continue reading
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Tagged a.e. housman, alfred perles, Allen Ginsberg, anais nin, ben grauer, Chales Bukowski, Erica Jong, Eve McClure, Henry Miller, Henry Miller tropic of cancer, Jack Kerouac, kathy acker, Lawrence Durrell, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno
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shafia: pet rats in a skinner box touch his lever
and so it is. Like Freud’s Totem and Taboo, we have an ape man living in groups dominated by an all powerful father who kept all women for his own exclusive sexual use and abuse. Unlimited, buffet style access to … Continue reading
spearheading
by Jesse Marinoff Reyes (Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) Spearhead New Directions, 1947 Design: Alvin Lustig Spearhead was an anthology of the best of the New Directions annuals published between 1936-46 and from other sources. It was meant to … Continue reading
rimbaud: farewell of the damned
He held out for some sort of salvation, but what that was to be, its form, went largely unknown and undefined. The broken home, childhood sexual trauma, abusive parents, addiction. Like Jean Genet, the criminal and outlaw experience informed the … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Rimbaud, Bob Dylan, Carl Jung, Charles Baudelaire, Edgar Degas, Emanuel Swedenborg, Franz Kafka, Georges Bataille, Henry Miller, Hieronymous Bosch, Jean Genet, jef rossman, joel-peter witkin, leo ferre, Paul Verlaine, Sigmund Freud, Todd Haynes, Walt Whitman
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