Conversations in the Book Trade: Books, art, art-books, and ... authorial movies.
Conversations in the Book Trade: Books, art, art-books, and ... authorial movies.
Tuesday, August 31, 2021
Monday, August 30, 2021
Sunday, August 29, 2021
Saturday, August 28, 2021
Friday, August 27, 2021
Thursday, August 26, 2021
Tuesday, August 24, 2021
Thursday, August 19, 2021
Wednesday, August 18, 2021
Tuesday, August 17, 2021
Monday, August 16, 2021
Sunday, August 15, 2021
Marble - a geopolitical videopoem/ Marbre — vidéo poéme géopolitique
From my collection of authorial movies.
Originally published in the chapbook Plastic Millennium. Every poem in this collection is also an authorial videopoem — that is, a videopoem in which one person creates (authors) all elements of the video, including the art and music.
Text:
Marble
The soldiers tromp
Brick, shards
Matter shattered
And then dried like leaves —
The shaking down of temples,
Trees.
The marble of Romans
Is a diaspora bomb.
In the sylvan distance
GBUs thump like wine-skins
And the Syrian dancing girls
Are all wetted now
By weird rains.
The region
Stays filled with legions
While the emperor resumes drink.
And on the flag-stones
Of the thoroughfares
Sandals are whitened
By dust.
F. Harvor
Saturday, August 14, 2021
Friday, August 13, 2021
Tuesday, August 10, 2021
Monday, August 09, 2021
The origins of COVID-19
Mimi Lau in the South China Morning Post: «
The Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, Hubei province, is at the centre of the controversial coronavirus lab leak theory. Photo: AFP
A trove of genetic data gathered by US intelligence agencies is unlikely to definitively prove whether the
in central China because much of the evidence is indirect and circumstantial, according to scientific experts.CNN cited sources saying US intelligence agencies had gained access to a catalogue of virus information that contained genetic blueprints drawn from virus samples studied at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the facility that some US officials claim could have been the source of the pathogen.
The new coronavirus that causes Covid-19 was first detected in Wuhan in late December 2019 and its origins remain unknown. »
Baudelaire
Jean Teule sur le bicentenaire de la naissance de Charles Baudelaire: “L'anniversaire d'un poète maudit. Charles Baudelaire, né le 9 avril 1821, aurait eu 200 ans vendredi. S'il est aujourd'hui reconnu, voire admiré, il était peu recommandable à son époque. Une personnalité controversée qui ne gagnait pas forcément à être connue. Baudelaire était un sale type : détestable, odieux, misogyne. Il appréciait d'ailleurs cette détestation. "Il disait par exemple une phrase que j'aime bien : 'avec mon talent désagréable, je voudrais mettre l'humanité toute entière contre moi. Je vois là une jouissance qui me console de tout'", cite Jean Teulé, auteur du portrait original du poète maudit Crénom, Baudelaire !”
