“Hungarian Masterpiece, Summer, 2011” by Márton Koppány. Thanks, Márton!

Márton Koppány is the author of Waves an E·ratio Editions E·Chap.

“I never read before so many people before. What they don’t know is I’m doing poses out of Edward Gorey.”


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Edward Gorey’s rendition of Don Marquis’ cockroach with the soul of a poet, Archy.

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Most unusual and beautiful, Brenda Clews has curated Festival of the Trees at her website, Rubies in Crystal.

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Drive By (2009, 14 x 18", oil on linen)

SUSAN BEE
RECALCULATING: New Paintings

A·I·R Gallery 111 Front Street #228, BKLYN NY 11201

May 25 – June 19, 2011
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 26, 6 – 8pm

Gallery Hours: Wed. – Sun., 11am to 6pm

Susan Bee Website.
Digital preview: thirty-seven new paintings online.

A·I·R Gallery.

“Many of the works in this show are based on movie stills, particularly film noirs. These mostly small oil paintings dramatize the relationships between male and female characters through the lens of the dark, violent films of the 1940s and 1950s. The paintings use a flattened and abstracted picture plane, as a starting point for uncanny narrative and figurative overlays that engage psychic dislocation, trauma, and incongruous mystical and religious iconography. These new works figure complex, sensual, dramatic tension, along with strong emotions, in an interwoven whole. The paintings confront, without resolving or sublimating, gender roles and power relationships. Bee’s focus is on the marked visual constellations that underlie key popular culture stereotypes.” —From the press release.

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Cousin Erasmus.

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I’m reading Elise Stewarts’s books Paradise and Opium Valentines.

These are works of ancient formulae. The Ficinian theurgy — the theory of love as a form of natural magic, enough to produce intersubjective erotic phantasms loaded with the emotion of passion. And thus her reader becomes her prey.

Elise Stewart is a specialist in the poetry of transitive affection.  Her books are published by Masque Publishing.

“Opium Valentines”

Night-time is the dancer,
my opium valentines, around
who’s shrouded mist I wander,
tempted by the gentle orb of
candle-light upon my dark-lit walls.

Yes —
the twilight hours, come not
soon enough —
with the sip of deep red vine,
to forbade this thirsting mouth.
To permit these eyes to audience
each mythical scene — unveiled.

Captivated, I must engage this
prophecy, drink the maddened
eye of pleasure, until the head,
heavy with delirium, sinks into
the sedative of sleep.

Until enslaved — I succumb to the
yearning depths of night,
and into the lure of dreams
— must fall.


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The spring/summer 2011 issue of The Tower Journal, edited by Mary Ann Sullivan, is online.

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The English poet Elise Stewart.






“Conceptus” a video poem by Elise Stewart & Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino

Including excerpts from the poetry of Elise Stewart and Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino

Vocals, music and video by Elise Stewart




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e·ratio editions is celebrating National Poetry Month with Beginning to End by Alan Halsey

Beginning to End and other alphabet poems by Alan Halsey. Poems and poetic sequences. With art by Alan Halsey.

Alan Halsey is the author of Marginalien and Lives of the Poets (both Five Seasons Press), Not Everything Remotely — Selected Poems 1978-2004 (Salt) and Term as in Aftermath (Ahadada).

E·ratio Editions

read the Alan Halsey interview

also available from e·ratio editions:

#11. Paul de Man and the Cornell Demaniacs by Jack Foley. Essay, recollection. “I studied with de Man in the early 1960s at Cornell University. The de Man of that time was different from the de Man you are aware of. . . . Despite his interest in Heidegger, the central issue for the de Man of this period was ‘inwardness’ — what he called, citing Rousseau, ‘conscience de soi,’ self consciousness.”

#10. The Galloping Man and five other poems by Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino. “ . . . how does / a body know, here is a hand, and here, is a sentence / or, / what’s riding on hearts . . . ”

.pdf (free)

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Janet Kurnatowski Gallery.

Emma Bee Bernstein Website.

Update: April 7, 2011: Emma Bee Bernstein: An Imagined Space reviewed by Holland Cotter at The New York Times.

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Edward Gorey’s cover for Shakespeare by Mark Van Doren. Notice Gorey’s initials, bottom right-hand corner.

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Edward Gorey’s cover for American Humor by Constance Rourke. Notice Gorey’s initials, bottom right-hand corner.

Rhythm of Structure: Mathematics, Art and Poetic Reflections:
The Summary Exhibition

February 25, 2011 — April 2, 2011 at the Selby Gallery.

Opening: Friday, February 25, 2011, 5:00PM to 7:00PM

The Selby Gallery is located on the Ringling College of Art and Design campus, one-half block east of 2700 N. Tamiami Trail on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Way in Sarasota.




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