Outline Of History 6
Morning, when each of us has less sugar in the blood.
Morning, when day's whiteness smears across the windowpane.
Morning, when sleep achieves its peak, and it's not far now
to the river's mouth. Despair draws us out of sleep's ashes. My
morning is no less simple. Again I'm flesh and blood. The down blankets
shed. The last millisecond of waking has been arranged ahead of time. Like
everything that's taken place today. The arteries surge. And
one's field of vision flickers in anticipation. I'd rather not
resort to symbols. They're not what matters. There's time for me
to conceal the things that count. Warm from touching here, and there.
Shining colder than a star imprinted on one's cranium.
Not fading like footprints of a dead age, and this poem.
Aleš Debeljak, Outline Of History 6, from Child of Europe: A New Anthology of East European Poetry, ed. Michael March
Morning, when each of us has less sugar in the blood.
Morning, when day's whiteness smears across the windowpane.
Morning, when sleep achieves its peak, and it's not far now
to the river's mouth. Despair draws us out of sleep's ashes. My
morning is no less simple. Again I'm flesh and blood. The down blankets
shed. The last millisecond of waking has been arranged ahead of time. Like
everything that's taken place today. The arteries surge. And
one's field of vision flickers in anticipation. I'd rather not
resort to symbols. They're not what matters. There's time for me
to conceal the things that count. Warm from touching here, and there.
Shining colder than a star imprinted on one's cranium.
Not fading like footprints of a dead age, and this poem.
Aleš Debeljak, Outline Of History 6, from Child of Europe: A New Anthology of East European Poetry, ed. Michael March
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Marco Lorenzetti
From the Upon My Way To Sleep series
2022
From the Upon My Way To Sleep series
2022
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Masood Kamandy
Letter to John Cage
2011
“A drawing algorithm listens to John Cage's Music of Changes and "pens" a letter to him.”
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Letter to John Cage
2011
“A drawing algorithm listens to John Cage's Music of Changes and "pens" a letter to him.”
[x]
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“Book covers are not only advertisements for the books themselves but also advertisements for the kinds of readers we imagine ourselves as being, or would like to be. There is an intimate connection between what we read and who we are, between shelves and selves. Finish reading a book, and its cover serves as a souvenir commemorating a transportive reading experience. Finish reading an especially difficult book, and its cover functions more like a trophy awarded for intellectual labor. Carry a book around in public, and its cover can betray you to other people who will make assumptions about you. It feels risky to be so exposed, but at times such assumptions are welcome, as when a book cover, flashed across a crowded subway car, operates like a secret handshake with another person reading the same.”
— Peter Mendelsund and David J. Alworth, The Look of the Book: Jackets, Covers, and Art at the Edges of Literature
— Peter Mendelsund and David J. Alworth, The Look of the Book: Jackets, Covers, and Art at the Edges of Literature
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Peter Moore
Nam June Paik performing "Violin with String" (1961) at the Twelfth Annual New York Avant Garde Festival, Floyd Bennett Field
New York, 1975
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Nam June Paik performing "Violin with String" (1961) at the Twelfth Annual New York Avant Garde Festival, Floyd Bennett Field
New York, 1975
[x]
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