🟦 Taylor Swift: 'Who uses typewriters anyway?'

Paul Prudence: ☝️

'I had been aware of and inspired by the concrete poetry movement, and as a writer, I was thinking about ways in which I could combine writing and visual art for a while. It was only by chance that one day I…

'On Leaving'
by Richard Chartier

Touch, UK (TO:124)
dedicated to Steve Roden (1964-2023)

out May 24

signed/numbered edition of 20 on my Bandcamp:
richardchartier.bandcamp.com/merch/on-leavi…

info+ordering via Touch: touch33.net/catalogue/to12…

touch333.bandcamp.com/album/on-leavi…

'The dead become fictions of those of us that survive them; we subject them to the indecency of deletions, additions & revisions'

Little otherworldly lives from: The Free-living Unarmored Dinoflagellata' by Charles Kofoid & Olive Swezy (1921)

(◕!◕) > biodiversitylibrary.org/item/66471#pag…

For all the Paul Auster fans - not to forget, he was a huge fan of the work of Paul Celan. A superb conjunction!
✩⇹✩
Celebrating Paul Celan: An Evening with Pierre Joris and Paul Auster (video)

youtube.com/watch?v=_PeNee…

Lenore Tawney
Earth & Sky, 1964

Jacquetta Hawkes’ description of the nature and formation of chalk, from 'A Land' (1951), her seminal book on geology and landscape. See Alt text.

The eighty-one word text is repeated twenty times, and each time with increased word-spacing, from one to twenty spaces; 1995/2024.

Found at my mom’s place: an old dec-hex conversion table from 0 to 4095, by IBM!

Shin-bijutsukai - Yamada Geikido, 1901, containing antique silk screen print designs from Japan.

(◕!◕) >
archive.org/stream/Shinbij…

should we be concerned that the professors who are taking on the greatest risk of being beaten and arrested seem to be mostly historians

'Impersonal confessions of a hidden shadow to anonymous shadows' ~ Roger Caillois (among his last words)

(From the essay, Mineral Mysticism by Stefano Salis included in Written in Stone)

Doesn't matter how many times I read this, it just hits as hard every time. Moving.

H.D. in Egypt,1923 /
from Visions and Ecstasies
(thanks to Basket Books, Houston)

'In the end, each life is no more than the sum of contingent facts, a chronicle of chance intersections, of flukes, of random events that divulge nothing but their own lack of purpose.”

R.I.P. Paul Auster

Amazed to learn today that the tomb stone of Roger Caillois, located in Montparnasse Cemetery, contains no inscription but instead a.....

This single sentence thrills me as much today as it did the first time I read it more than 30+ years ago. Perhaps because it somehow encodes, refracts and reflects, in infinite intimacy, every essence about the author, his personality and all of his work. ♡

Graham Sutherland OM, 𝘗𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘭, 1930.