Donna Fleischer – some haiku poems by & some words about

Donna Fleischer

Poet Details: The Haiku Foundation

Poets & Writers

Gozo Yoshimasu – Take Ninagawa | ARTFORUM

View of “Gozo Yoshimasu,” 2022. Photo: Kei Okano.

. . .the “inadequacy” Yoshimasu refers to in his poetics is not only that of poetry, but of the failure of language at large to convey physical sensations, of visual art to convey verbal thoughts, and of Japanese to convey meaning outside Japan. He does not attempt to resolve these inadequacies. Instead, they are suspended in perpetual tension in artifacts that are not quite texts and not quite pictures. This refusal of resolution animates the surfaces of these works, making them kinetic while they simultaneously and somewhat uncomfortably occupy spaces in both literature and art. – Yuki Higashino

Source: Gozo Yoshimasu

Poetry at the Root: Yoshimasu Gozo’s Art, Writing, and Music

TOKYO — It’s not often that a major art museum hosts an exhibition for a poet.

Source: Poetry at the Root: Yoshimasu Gozo’s Art, Writing, and Music

Yoshimasu Gozo Navigates the Liminal Zone of Poetry | Frieze

Yoshimasu Gozo, ’room KINKAZAN’, 2019, installation view at Reborn-Art Festival. Courtesy: Take Ninagawa; photograph: Takehiro Goto

 

The poet and artist creates works that occupy a transitional state between life and death

Source: Yoshimasu Gozo Navigates the Liminal Zone of Poetry | Frieze

The Reality Behind What We See (The Poet, Yoshimasu Gozo, in Kyoto) – Official Trailer – Sose 2018 – YouTube

Gozo Yoshimasu – Japan – Poetry International

MAD IN THE MORNING

I shout the first line of my poem
I write the first line
A carving knife stands up madly in the morning
These are my rights!

The glow of morning or a woman’s breasts are not always beautiful
Beauty is not always first
All music is a lie!
Ah! First of all, let’s close all the petals and fall down to the earth!

This morning, September 24, 1966
I wrote a letter to my dearest friend
About original sin
About the perfect crime and the method of destroying intelligence

Ah!
What a drop of water rolling on my pale pink palm!
The woman’s breasts are reflected in a coffee saucer!
Oh! I can’t fall down!
Though I ran rapidly over the edge of the sword, the world has not disappeared!

 

Yoshimasu Gozo

 

Yoshimasu Gozo

Source: Gozo Yoshimasu – Japan – Poetry International

Donna Fleischer among crab apple trees

crab apple 
b l o s s – o m s . . .
umeboshi plum

– Donna Fleischer
April 26, 2024

crab apple tree
ancient blossoms within
Spring’s avalanche

– Donna Fleischer
May 10, 2013

What Birds’ Dreams Can Tell Us About Our Own – The New York Times

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Source: A Longhouse Birdhouse: NEW SPRING LONGHOUSE ! ~

A Longhouse Birdhouse: NEW SPRING LONGHOUSE ! ~

Inquire your wishes
and we will let
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P.O. Box 2454
West Brattleboro
Vermont
05303

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