Jacob, di origini ebraiche, sostenne di aver avuto una visione di Cristo nel 1909, motivo per cui si convertì al cattolicesimo. Read the rest of this entry ?
Posts contrassegnato dai tag ‘surrealismo’

Senza titolo
22 marzo 2012Con gli occhi giganti
Affacciato alla finestra giallo ruggine Read the rest of this entry ?

L’universo-solitudine
13 marzo 2012Paul Éluard, 1930 (da “A toute épreuve”)
Une chanson de porcelaine bat des mains
Puis en morceaux mendie et meurt
Tu te souviendras d’elle pauvre et nue Read the rest of this entry ?

Senza titolo
21 settembre 2011Come i pesci che non smettono
di essere pinne circondate da uomini
proverò a essere acqua: Read the rest of this entry ?

Il silenzio del clown
19 settembre 2011Il conducente dell’autobus parlava con voce elegante, lievemente meridionale: “Sa, nel 1827 fu inventato in Inghilterra l’autobus a vapore. Il primo traffico di linea a trazione a combustibile fu inaugurato il 18 marzo 1895 tra Siegen e Netphen e veniva gestito dalla Netphener Omnibusgesellschaft. Read the rest of this entry ?

A Mexican Surrealist
18 luglio 2011di Christian Caujolle
After last year’s Argentine theme, this year the Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles will feature Mexico as well as an ambitious exploration of the image and the internet. This focus on a country whose rich photographic history began after the revolution in 1910 with such names as Manuel Alvarez Bravo in addition to such foreigners as Edward Weston and Tina Modotti, was almost canceled. In the panorama that leads from the Revolution to today, one figure stands out, a part of photographic history, winner of the prestigious W. Eugene Smith and Hasselblad Foundation prizes, and certainly most characteristic above all of what might be considered “Mexican photography”. Her name is Graciela Iturbide. Read the rest of this entry ?

Schizzo per un poema organico sulla religione
8 maggio 2011La fantasia feroce
lo portava a iniettarsi razionalmente
dell’inchiostro purissimo in vena
al posto dell’acqua santa
per dissetare le sue voglie sessuali. Read the rest of this entry ?

Compression & Purity
7 maggio 2011Few poets writing today can compare with L.A.-based surrealist Will Alexander in terms of the intensity of his imagination or his radically experimental approach to language as material object. Through the use of automatic writing, Alexander practices a surrealism of the word, creating densely textured layers of signification from its sounded and written forms. Compression & Purity, volume five of our Spotlight poetry series, is Alexander’s seventh full-length collection. Read the rest of this entry ?















