In 1996 three art galleries from Nantes, France, teamed up to organise a Michaux retrospective in their town. Galerie Covergence, Galerie Jean-Christian Fradin and Galerie Michel Luneau showed a variety of works ranging from frottages, pastels, oil and acrylic paintings, and drawings in ink or crayon covering a period from 1944 to 1983. Apart from reproductions of these works the accompanying catalogue contains an introduction by Michel Luneau, a biography and Michaux’s…
Review of In Honor of Ted Berrigan by Ed Sanders in Beat Scene #104, early Summer 2022.
John Wieners (1934-2002) was a Beat poet who studied at Black Mountain College under Charles Olson and Robert Duncan from 1955 to 1956. Originally from the Boston area, Wieners moved to San Francisco in 1957, where he befriended Wallace Berman and, via Berman, became part of the San Francisco Poetry Renaissance. Like that of many other Beat poets, Wieners poetry mainly dealt with sexual and drug-related experiments…
Slowscan Vol. 52 is a collection of 10 recordings of varying length released on cassette in a hand made and silkscreened wooden box. Produced in an edition of 50 copies only (of which 10 hors commerce), this box set is an exquisite Slowscan edition and sheer collector’s delight. Among other things the inserted table of contents mentions…
Trakl’s atmospheric poem Landschaft was first published in the posthumous compilation Sebastian im Traum in 1915. The short poem sketches scenes in a quiet village on a September evening. Distant shouts and calls, sparks from a forge, a towering horse, a maid’s flowing hair, flowers mirrored in a pond, a burnt tree and fluttering bats form the ingredients of this carefully composed poem. Larded with colours, sounds and vivid imagery…