April 2011
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Apr 27th
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Apr 27th
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Apr 25th
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Apr 25th
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Apr 25th
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Apr 24th
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“Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”
– Oscar Wilde (via theonlymagicleftisart)
Apr 19th
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“The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much...”
– G.K Chesterton (via nathanielstuart)
Apr 19th
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Apr 19th
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Samuel Beckett - Nohow On
c-d: PDF Nohow On: Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, Worstward Ho
Apr 15th
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“To see, one should liberate oneself from the immediate. Looking beyond opens the...”
– Hugues De Montalembert, Invisible (via distantheartbeats)
Apr 15th
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Making The Trees of Codes
casualoptimist: Here’s a short video showing the complex production of Jonathan Safran Foer’s innovative die-cut novel Tree of Codes, published by Visual Editions and printed by Die Keure in Belgium: (via Creative Review) Original Article
Apr 15th
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Apr 14th
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Apr 13th
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Apr 13th
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Apr 13th
WatchWatch
seawitchery: I started out clicking strategically… and by the end was just wildly clicking and dancing in my chair. biancavirina: CLICK THE SQUARES. THE WHOLE WORLD NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT THIS. THIS THIS THIS THIS!
Apr 11th
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The Bookbinder | Made in Toronto
casualoptimist: A lovely short film about bookbinder Don Taylor made by Tate Young and Ian Daffern for the new online daily Toronto Standard: Original Article
Apr 8th
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Dennis Cooley, the bentleys
[a slightly longer version of a tweet] in the bentleys (University of Alberta Press, 2006) Dennis Cooley is master of enjambment, turns lines on a dime; keeps the pace moving with word play, fine attention to sound, memorable metaphors.   In simple language he has managed to create a work that mesmerizes and evokes emotion that lingers.   “crow nests in the thorniest tree/shouts the reddest...
Apr 8th
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Apr 7th
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CBC.ca | Q | Jian on arts and culture in the... →
arts and culture? anyone?
Apr 5th
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Celestial Sphere/Terrestrial Sphere
coltish:
Apr 5th
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puzzleoverit asked: exactly! Thank you for posting this...

“NO ONE IS A POET UNLESS HE HAS FELT THE TEMPTATION TO DESTROY LANGUAGE OR CREATE ANOTHER ONE, UNLESS HE HAS EXPERIENCED THE FASCINATION OF NONMEANING AND THE NO LESS TERRIFYING FASCINATION OF MEANING THAT IS INEXPRESSIBLE”
Apr 4th
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“poetry: I will be content in this book to accept a social, cultural definition...”
– Robert Pinksy, the Sounds of Poetry, A Brief Guide
Apr 4th
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Ian Hamilton Finlay in conversation with Nagy... →
Apr 4th
Apr 4th
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“NO ONE IS A POET UNLESS HE HAS FELT THE TEMPTATION TO DESTROY LANGUAGE OR CREATE...”
– Octavio Paz
Apr 4th
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Best last lines from novels
6. If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler, Italo Calvino Best post-modern, self-referential ending to a post-modern, self-referential book about reading and writing: And you say, “Just a moment, I’ve almost finished  If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino.” http://flavorwire.com/167171/famous-last-words-our-20-favorite-final-lines-in-literature
Apr 4th
NationalPoetryMonth.ca - a month of visual poetry... →
Day 1 features visual poetry by Eric Zboya
Apr 1st