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From one of my favorite films, Johnny Guitar!!!

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My portrait of the United Nations logo!

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My portrait of J. Robert Oppenheimer…

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Collage art of Will Smith slapping Chris Rock….

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Poem I wrote a while ago on edibles with some Fence Books and Nightboat books in my mind….

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“All know that the drop merges into the ocean, but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.”

— Kabir

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New work made 2day.

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Jack Spicer, “A New Poem”

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Portrait of JK Rowling next to copies of five of her seven Harry Potter novels.

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Untitled (Toad/Water) (c. 1955-57) Ray Johnson, American, 1927-1995 Collage of cut colored, printed, coated, and painted papers, with brush and pink ink, yellow wax, and touches of graphite, on board

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Ray Johnson. Untitled [James Dean in the Rain], ca. 1953-59.

collage on illustration board

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In 1923 René Clair asks writers and artists their opinion about "seventh art" and Louis Aragon replies: "I like films in which there is no philosophy or poetry. Poetry isn’t something you look for, it’s something you find."

Poet and puppet artist Pierre Albert-Birot: "The work of art begins where imitation ends. I remember the first film comedies very dimly. It seems to me that they were really creative and, what is more, dynamic, truly born of the new medium of expression put at man’s disposal."

Poet, novelist, and filmmaker Jean Cocteau: "On the first day, since people were dazzled by the invention (of cinema), the mistake began. They photographed stage plays. Gradually these plays became cinematic plays, but never pure cinema. Such progress can only be disastrous."

Fernand Léger: "In the future, I hope for this: A cinematic concept that finds its own methods. As long as the film is based on fiction or the theater, it will be nothing. As long as it uses stage actors, it will be nothing."

Pierre Mac Orlan: "Cinema is the only art that can render our era literally in expressionist form, with all its secret rhythms which music has already grasped, but which the art of writing cannot render because language imposes a rigid framework that cannot be dislocated."

Another impressive answer from Paul Valéry: "I think that there is a need to institute an art of pure cinema, or cinema reduced to its own means. This art should steer clear of those—theater or novel—that deal in speech."

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Inger Christensen

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For Mona Lisa

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and the moon never stops leaving its seal on black events

Line from "Beyond" by Bei Dao, 1993

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André du Bouchet

SANG              

…sang tel qu’ est pour le dire de surcroît accouru sourdre un mot le mot est là pas moi.

André du Bouchet, « Axiome », Ici en deux, Paris, Mercure de France, 1986, p. 159.

18th Poetry International Festival Rotterdam,  1987

[Cession]   [Du bord de la faux]   [En pleine terre]

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What are your favorite Arabic poems, if you have any?

These are some of my favorites:

An Ocean Without Shore, Ibn ‘Arabi

Fragment from Al-Buhturi’s Wolf

From the Luzumiyat of al-Ma’arri

From the Diwan of al-Ma’arri

Reality, Rabia al-Basri

Love, Rabia al-Basri

The Enchanter of Dust: Psalm, Adonis

The Wound, Adonis

I Pray Behind My Shadow, Bahija Massri Adelbi

The Spirit Bows to the Will of Love, Munir Mezyed

The Manner of Sand, Mahmood al-Braikan

Exculpation, Khalil Mutran

Revolt Against the Sun, Nazik al-Mala’ika

Myths, Nazik al-Mala’ika

Who am I?, Nazik al-Mala’ika

A Stranger at the Gulf, Badr Shakir al-Sayyab

An Alphabetical Formation, Faraj Bayraqdar

A couple of fragments from Sanieh Salh

Sorrows of the Black City, Muhammad al-Fayturi

Shadows, Wadih Sa’adah

The Strange Grief, al-Shabbi

A Storm in the Dark, al-Shabbi

A Body, Al-Saddiq al-Raddi

Annihilation, Muhammad Afifi Matar

Fragments from ‘Quartet of Joy’, Muhammad Affifi Matar

Mural, Mahmoud Darwish

We Will Choose Sophocles, Mahmoud Darwish 

Clouds, Ounsi el-Hajj

Smoke Bloom, Nadia Anjuman

Boat to Lesbos, Nourri al-Jarrah

Your body is my map, Nizar Qabbani