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08.17.2018 Ithaka

Ulysse et Tirésias (détail sur un vase cratère, (440-390 av. J.C.), conservé à la Bibliothèque nationale de France
Along the way Ithaka As you set out for Ithaka hope the voyage is a long one, full of adventure, full of discovery. Laistrygonians and Cyclops, angry Poseidon—don’t be afraid of them: you’ll never find things like that on your way as long as you keep your thoughts raised high, as long as a rare excitement stirs your spirit and your body. Laistrygonians and Cyclops, wild Poseidon—you won’t encounter them unless you bring…

01.22.2018 A rose

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (1830-1886), daguerréotype de 1846-47 (Amherst College).
Along the way

A poem from American poetess Emily Dickinson (1830-1886).

11.03.2017 The passion of heaven…

Solargraphie de Quentin Lacombe (courteously)
Along the way

The passion of heaven, a poem of Agrippa d’Aubigné (1552-1630) opens the theme of the constellations on memento.

10.06.2017 Agate odyssey

Agate, collection de Roger Caillois, dans son ouvrage L'écriture des pierres (photo © François Farges)
Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris.
Along the way

«The patterns on agate or jasper are not in the stones themselves but within the imagination that puts them there » (Roger Caillois)

07.21.2017 The Beautiful

La frontière de l'ensemble de Mandelbrot.
Along the way

It may well be that there are laws of harmony…

05.29.2017 The Clock

Image extraite de: Les 39 Marches (The 39 Steps) film réalisé par Alfred Hitchcock, sorti en 1935, adapté du roman éponyme de John Buchan.
Along the way

“Impassive clock! Terrifying, sinister god,”

05.19.2017 The Age

Ossip Emilievitch Mandelstam (1891-1938)
Along the way

The Age is a poem from Ossip Emilievitch Mandelstam (1891-1938), a Rusian poet and essayist, who was born in Warsaw and died at Vladivostok, in a Goulag camp.

03.24.2017 Writing Degree Zero

Roland Barthes en 1981
Crossed paths

« Is there any poetic writing? » asks Roland Barthes in his first essay Writing degree zero.

08.22.2016 Mesostics

John Cage - mesostics
Crossed paths

It was American writer and philosopher Norman O. Brown who recommended that John Cage use this poetic technique of mesostics.

08.19.2016 Flower power

Flower Power - photographie de Bernie Boston (©Bernie Boston) nominée au Prix  Pulitzer en 1967
Along the way

Flowers were used as a light-hearted way to disarm enemy guns.

04.28.2016 Dada optophonetic

Kp'erioum, Raoul Hausmann (1886-1971)
Crossed paths

“This wordless poetry already constituted one of the most salient features of Dada.”

03.07.2016 A seer’s vowels

Manuscrit du poème "Voyelles" d'Arthur Rimbaud
Along the way

«A black, E white, I red, U green, O blue: vowels, » is a verse of typical synaesthetic association, made by a poet who was seer.

02.11.2016 Winter pink

A Corner of the Table by Ignace Henri Fantin-Latour with Rimbaud and Verlains
Along the way

In the winter, we shall travel in a little pink railway carriage…

11.05.2015 The swan in the shade

OMBRE
Shadow of scents

A swan moves over the water…

10.08.2015 Correspondences

"Baudelaire de Profil en Chapeau" (Edouard Manet, 1832-1883)
Along the way

Correspondences and synaesthesia…

07.20.2015 Geranium

Rembrandt-une
Along the way

In a pot is a geranium…

06.22.2015 perfumed haiku

haïku visuel 2
Along the way

Early this summer as a tribute to this literary art, diptyque has accompanied its Eaux Parfumées with a free haiku…

06.15.2015 This is not a smiley

Christian Morgenstern - Fisches Nachtgesang
Along the way

Neither a smiley nor any emotion, it’s a poem…

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