The best thing that could happen to poetry is to drive it out of the universities with burning pitch forks.
from Let Poetry Die
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Img: Remember Elvis, Love Rimbaud (2009)
via Poetry Hut
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Fjord was right
Daily Archives: January 19, 2010
Dada Dress
In her Dada Poem Wedding Dress, Lesley Dill presents one of her enigmatic paper dresses, stamped with an image of a real biological heart (a votive) amongst black letters (Dada-style, in that the varied size and boldness of the typography suggest sound), which spell out what is only implied in Hawarden’s corseted dresses: Dickinson’s “The Soul has Bandaged Moments”. A dip at the waist gives way to a body (there and not there), with the words “MOMENTS OF ESCAPE.” Up and down the sleeves, letters straight and reversed (looking-glass-style) puff out and suck in the heaves and sighs of “THE SOUL HAS BANDAGED MOMENTS.”
Read more via A Dress A Day
Switch off the censors. Your instincts, trust.
1996 New York Times
Interviewer: Let’s begin with the origin of your name.
Marvin K. Mooney: I don’t want to discuss my name.
Interviewer: That’s too bad. I think readers would be interested to learn how you came to be named after a character in a Dr. Seuss book.
Marvin K. Mooney: I’m not interested in what readers might be interested in.
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Interviewer: Some accuse your work of being purposefully difficult, overtly opaque, and ultimately disconnected from the human experience. How would you respond to those allegations?
Marvin K. Mooney: Who do you mean by “some”?
Interviewer: Well, I suppose I mean those in the literary community.
Marvin K. Mooney: What literary community?
Interviewer: Readers of books, academics, intellectuals, book reviewers, critics and the like.
Marvin K. Mooney: Well, I suppose if they’re right then my work is a triumph beyond anything anyone has ever seen before.
Interviewer: How so?
Marvin K. Mooney: Think about it. A human being capable of creating something disconnected from the human experience? That’s unparalleled.
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Interviewer: Are you interested in notoriety?
Marvin K. Mooney: What do you mean?
Interviewer: As a writer, do you think about posterity, whether or not your work will be remembered or forgotten in a thousand years?
Marvin K. Mooney: I want to be famous or I want to be forgotten. That is what it means to be an American. Mediocrity is utterly unacceptable. Extremity is the only viable ontology remaining.
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Interviewer: Who are you influences?
Marvin K. Mooney: My mother, my father, and Phil Collins.
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Seems like everywhere I turn lately I read something or hear something about this mysterious writer called Marvin K. Mooney….It doesn’t seem like he’s published any books, although the email I got last night suggested that a collection of his work was forthcoming — but it didn’t say when or by what publisher. Also, there’s no Wikipedia entry for him, and when I Googled him all I got back was a bunch of Dr. Seuss links.
Miho Hatori: A Song for Kids
Miho Hatori’s “A Song for Kids” from her album ECDYSIS.
Director: Gabriela Gasparini and Marianna Dutra
Photographer: Marianna Dutra
Editor: Gabriela Gasparini
Production: Mariana Castro
Mark Mawson
Australian photographer Mark Mawson captures these mesmerizing images by pouring paint into water. Many more on his site (under the “series” tab).
Via This Blog Rules.
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