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triplecanopy: Andy Warhol, Hot Dog

triplecanopy:

Andy Warhol, Hot Dog

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Dorothea Lasky likes Weird Ass Hippies — on the Huffington Post.

theparisreview:

For here we see a designer for whom Surrealism, the fantastic and the ludic are never far away … and for whom the letterform is just one vital element (or set of elements) and not necessarily always the most important, in a field of communicative resources that includes every kind of made, found or photographic pictorial device.

An appreciation of the work of influential French book designer Pierre Faucheux.

lovelyarc:

Octopus Books wants to tell you that we’ve chosen to publish the books of a few more poets.

From the Academy of American Poets Photo Archive:Bei Dao (born August 2, 1949) & Eliot Weinberger discussing contemporary Chinese poetry on a panel at the 1992 Splintered Mirror Conference (Photo © Dorothy Alexander).

From the Academy of American Poets Photo Archive:

Bei Dao (born August 2, 1949) & Eliot Weinberger discussing contemporary Chinese poetry on a panel at the 1992 Splintered Mirror Conference (Photo © Dorothy Alexander).

jenbenka: the reality of memory. or the view from niedecker

jenbenka:

the reality of memory. or the view from niedecker

Frank Stanford, it’s your birthday. tonight the gars on the trees are swords in the hands of knights the stars are like twenty-seven dancing russians and the wind is I am waving goodbye

Frank Stanford, it’s your birthday.

tonight the gars on the trees are swords in the hands of knights

the stars are like twenty-seven dancing russians and the wind

is I am waving goodbye

You are. 

You are. 

Corner Couple / 2007 / 8”x10 by James Gallagher.

Corner Couple / 2007 / 8”x10 by James Gallagher.

A Georges-Perec-inspired paper plane >