Straight Up | Herman

The first flash mob in Europe Met in Rome on 24 June 2003. 300 people entered 'Messaggerie Musicali', A large book and music store, To ask its staff either for non-existent books, Or for the most obscure books By untraceable authors. One flash mobber asked for a copy of the New Testament Translated from Coptic into Latin by David Wilkins And published in 1716 by Oxford University Press. The book took till 1907 to sell its 500-copy print run. It was the slowest selling book in human history. 'Have you got it?' the book-lover … [Read more...]

Antonin Artaud by René Char I haven’t the voice to sing your praise, great brother If I bent over your body which light is going to scatter Your laugh would repel me The affection between us, during what We improperly call a fine storm Falls several times, kills, digs & burns, Then is reborn afterwards In the softness of the mushroom. You don’t need a wall of words To raise your truth, Nor sea-scrolls to anoint Your profundity, Nor this feverish hand that surrounds Your wrist and lightly Lead you to cut down a … [Read more...]

It’s weird that the cloaca of Central Europe is also the mouth of English literature. May Rotterdam be blessed by every English tongue in all the cloisters of the English-speaking world. -- Sinclair Beiles … [Read more...]

This is one of two new cards in the continuing series. Cold Turkey Press publications have a flavor all of their own; there’s a kind of wild, mad goodness about them -- you know you’re going to be taken on a trip. Somewhere edgy and dangerous. You may not get back. You don’t care. You’re in the company of people who took lots of risks with their organs of thought, and took those cerebral balloons as high as they’d go. To the outer reaches. Some burst, some floated back down with their observations -- sometimes all in tatters. … [Read more...]