Archive for January, 2016
鉄道の細く光りて冬の川 神山朝衣
tetsudô no hosoku hikarite fuyu no kawa
the railway shines
thinly . . .
winter river
Tomoe Kamiyama
Fay Aoyagi, translation
Source: Today’s Haiku (December 18, 2015) | Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi)
Doug Mills/The New York Times
Voters have the chance to choose one of the most broadly and deeply qualified presidential candidates in modern history.
Source: Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Nomination – The New York Times
if departing
Source: On View
It was daunting to walk into an oceanic gallery space streaming with over a hundred photography art books facing up, until I pulled up a stool and opened Black Threads from Meng Chiao (TIS Books, Brooklyn, NY, 2015), a collaboration by the photographer, Justine Kurland, and the poet, John Yau, then one other, Cuny Janssen: Yoshino (snoeck, Cologne, GR), right up to being told the gallery was about to close for the evening. I am bound to return at least once before the exhibition closes on February 17, 2016. – Donna Fleischer
Black Threads from Meng Chiao
Size 5.75 in x 8 in
Softbound French Fold
Silk Screen Dust Jacket
54 pages
20 tritone plates
The widest pages, or leaves*, of the staggered, multi-wide book, Yoshino, are those of full-color photographs bleeding off all four sides. These approximate 18 inches of an arm’s length from gutter to foredge, and so may be turned only slowly. Other narrower ones are almost see-through, frosted overlays of various widths with one-sided, dense, generously leaded, black texts of prose and haibun by Bashō (Travel Record of Weatherbeaten Skeleton), Saigyō, and others:
This simple abode
where I don’t even use
all of the clear, clean water
trickling down
between the rocks.
– Saigyō
All in all inspired this poem:
trees’ leaves flap
i turn slowly as if
departing, when
only just arrived
with so sudden a wind.
– Donna Fleischer
*The MAN’YŌSHŪ (万葉集), or Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves
behind the clouds
no brighter than a moon
the white sun
Source: CHRIS GORDON raw nervz haiku 1997-2005 | antantantantant
The Luxembourg artist was arrested and jailed for two days after stripping off in front of Manet’s “Olympia” at the Musee d’Orsay in Paris. We spoke to her about feminist protest, public outrage, and the art of getting naked in public.
” . . . I think all bodies are beautiful when they are lived in.”
– Deborah de Robertis.
Source: Nude Performance Artist Deborah de Robertis on Scandalizing the Art World | Broadly
de Robertis Re-enacts Gustav Courbet’s “The Origin of the World”
word pond 