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Alexander Booth. Poetry. Translation (Mayröcker, Kluge, Penna, Wittgenstein et al). Analog collage. Existential Analysis / Logotherapy. Epigrams unto emptiness. Tread the path with care.

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mist & slick midafternoon Moldau Vltava view towards the Castle mist Prague
November 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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November 2025
Analog postcard collage / blue crepe-paper square on white half circle of b/w hands tiny red square
November 22, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Raoul Hausmann (1886-1971)
b/w faded to sepia photographic print of an enlarged eye looking back at the viewer from a round makeup mirror
November 22, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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Good fun from when alternative / underground culture was alternative @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social on the changing genus loci as seen through local bars, Klaus Maeck on the making of his film Decoder, O Yuki Conjugate & more

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The Third Annual "everything you never knew you were interested in" The Korm Plastics Yearbook on Music
November 22, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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Friederike Mayröcker (tr. wordkunst) / Tobias Pils (*1971)
Tobias Raphael Pils. "Pencil, Ink on Paper, 180 x 110 cm, 1995" or a Raphael-Necessity [for description = next image] text by Friederike Mayröcker there she is now in front of the stacked chairs, and I can see her tugging the threads, syruplike, doubling her dark figure (rear view) wearing 1 covering upon her narrow skull, a very black covering with two little Chinese pigtails like antennae, Dalí moustache, straining, stretching her long arms or garment sleeves to the floor and sanding, and in the look of her eyes I had no idea where to *hell with it* all, namely, those camels and Alhambras hiding themselves in 1 flood of light, and first had to look up the meanings of the word, after the fact, and maybe this figure here on the paper is saying something I can't understand, but the echo of the words has been calling back from the walls of my room for a long time, I mean, it was 1 MINDTHICKET, I think the uncapped felt-tip had gotten caught up in the underblanket, FIZZLED-OUT, so that everything was full of black lines and envelopes and spidery cantilevers : striped, spotted, scorched, a spit of color, ink and charcoal, studded they were with dark my blanket and sheet, unadorned by clumps of soot; foot binding
November 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Currently reading : the current Codrescu
Andrei Codrescu's latest collection of poems (& photographs), How to Live Under Fascism, published by Black Widow Press
November 20, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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The one & only Bob Kaufman

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Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman, foreword by devorah major, edited by Neeli Cherkovski, Raymond Foye, Tate Swindell, published by City Lights Books
November 18, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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a heap of snowdusted fur hats, on a makeshift table, glimpses of a foreign century
November 18, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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For those of you in Prague -- come on over to Café Club Míšenská in Malá Strana next Wednesday evening!
Twisted Spoon Press & Alexander Booth present the work of Gerhard Rühm / Wednesday, November 26 at 19:30 / Café Club Míšenská / Míšenská 71/3 / Malá Strana, Prague
November 17, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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November 2025 / Sunday
red-and-white newsprint analog postcard collage reading : Ru he [the latter upside down] translation : quiet, calm, peace
November 16, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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November 2025
jumble of b/w newsprint letters pressed one atop the other maybe in the form of a rough gem analog postcard collage
November 16, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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November 2025
Analog newsprint postcard collage two black circles an e in fraktur red 1 red 0 red 6 or 9 two ls like a broken arrow
November 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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November 2025
two colored handtorn newsprint slivers like flames like sun against a black background
November 10, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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November 2025
b/w greenish newsprint analog postcard collage of variably sized handout triangles one on top of the other
November 6, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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In Memoriam PPP (1922-1975)
This is the room you always come back to. Twin bed, shuttered window, tiny desk. The walls have stayed a pale pink, you think, the crown molding white, and the toilet's behind a cheap accordion door, next to a handheld showerhead and drain. Across the street, palms and the giddy cries from a parochial courtyard. The sky is soft October blue, and, from here, the main train station is just a few blocks away, like being young. It hasn't been renovated yet, and the one seer whose book you have with you isn't dead. The seer you're looking for, twenty years (but the distance between you and you now is longer). At first, of course, the city was a stranger. Soon after, the center. This is the room you always come back to. Here it is always warm, and everything's just at the edge of beginning. - 'Insulae: XV' in "Triptych" (2021)
November 1, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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b/w photo of Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975), in the 1950s, hand in hand with a child on a lane of mud in a Roman borgata (shanty town) while four other children & a woman look on; in the far distance, a cupola [photographer uncredited]. Pier Paolo Pasolini was murdered 50 years ago today on an abandoned soccer pitch, outside of Rome, on the coast, in Ostia. His work was of immense importance to me when I was younger, not least of which inspiring me to learn Italian.
November 1, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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b/w photo of what look like three children in a foreign mid-20th century, on a sidewalk, black night around them, dressed in sheets to look like ghosts, holding paper bags, one playing some kind of horn, from Ossian Brown's "Haunted Air"
October 31, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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This remains my favorite "rock read" & hearing him read it is even better
Cover: "Concrete, Bulletproof, Invisible & Fried: My Life As a Revolting Cock" by Chris Connelly
October 29, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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October's End 2025
Fumage scratched & scored on white paper
October 29, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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Afternoon
Poems 1918-1975. The Complete Porms of Charles Reznikoff. Ed. by Seamus Cooney. Published by Black Sparrow Press.
October 27, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Dont know if this fun book has been translated into English . . .
Cover of German translation of Lars Fiske's graphic novel "Herr Merz" (Mr Merz) published by avant verlag
October 22, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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What a wonderful journal! For all you folk horror occulture beasties out there ... harvested from Zabriskie Buchladen in Berlin @helleborezine.bsky.social
Various issues of the folk horror / occult journal Hellebore
October 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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October 2025
acrylic smears of autumn ochre yellow red & pale on white postcard
October 21, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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Samuel Beckett stone, Kassel.
October 18, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Red & white papers strewn across a tabletop
October 18, 2025 at 10:39 PM