thanks a million times over for all the delightful encounters over the years that we had under the welcoming auspices of the gc commons (special thanks to Marilyn Weber and her patient intelligence)!

Since the GC is returning to Real Classrooms and I don’t feel I should occupy the French one for my five-week…[Read more]

In case some of us want to go on as a conversation group , as in the smallish group we had in the récent past, am thinking even now of the fall, as not in september (I have to talk in Parisr if we can have reunions in person, on the eroticovisualconcretepoetic, wow) but perhaps october or november,…[Read more]

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Welcome, again, to the idea of surrealism(s) as we in our reading group, however we are constituting ourselves, are thinking of meaning the term in these coming five weeks, which mean to be about looking “surrealistically” at whatever we read and much of what we talk about zoomingly. We…[Read more]

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ed Michel Delville and myself

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more can come but this now!m.a.

does it work?

how to insert???????these from my ‘current”???

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?hope it works, can’t send whole this but these are from Beginnings: the prose poem from all over! Black Widow books, coming out this year

had to be before 1925 so no paying permissions

if they don’t get there, blame it on me, it was such fun!

see you next tuesday, life permitting!

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or tell me you are out this semester, i know chiara is and what about…[Read more]

this is to say that if you are interested, there is an allnight talking of ideas at the french consulate tomorrow night, and patti smith starts it off at 6 called something about distance, on their website

then, I thank you all for putting up with my goings on about Alice Paalen Rahon, book coming out this year, and if i can…[Read more]

but you do have PARIS to read, see you next tuesday, m.a.c.

Mary Ann Caws

and, if I can, bit next, two published prose poems, of Lydia Davis and of Ben…[Read more]

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Dear friends again!

this is our same list of ourselves, conversing about the idea of surrealisms, however you interpret that term,

so please let me know if you would like be spared one more message in your mail, and just love us and leave us!

we have an assistant: Sandra Goldstein Lehnert, so if you need assisting in any way with…[Read more]

turns out I can show you some of the prose poems I mentioned and sent you the list of — which I. hope you received, all mysterious to me, BUT won’t be able to send you themselves, to download, given publisher problems, BUT can show you some verses, and we can talk about much else, including anything that FEELS surrealist…[Read more]

lots to talk about!

Mary Ann Caws

this is to say that, starting on tues feb 2 at 2:15 or thereabouts, until 4ish, we will gather, those of us who feel like it, to think freshly about surrealism(s), starting with a snack of Hope Mirrlees’ “Paris” of 1920, so, pre-surrealism as such, and wandering around a selection of pre-1925 prose poems to appear this year…[Read more]

a few things about our last topic, which was translation: I just zoomed in on Damien Searls speaking of his translation of Gide’s Marshlands (Paludes) which is a centerpiece of the art on the art and a lot else, not boredom but repetition

and…[Read more]

poem for today or whenever
from poem a day !

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anyone wanting to enroll in a phd program for credit or no credit, writing a small report on independent study may of course do so… but in any case, my idea now about surrealisms (notice the…[Read more]

surrealisms ahoy, and we will all who are with our reading group (inscribed or not in a program at the grad center) be speaking in the first time together about our contemporary interest in surrealisms and so on, and…[Read more]

surrealisms ahoy, and we will all who are with our reading group (inscribed or not in a program at the grad center) be speaking in the first time together about our contemporary interest in surrealisms and so on, and…[Read more]

and a big hello for now and on, and see some of you in the “spring” which doesn’t sound quite right now!
any messages do send me somehow, and happy holidays to all and your animal/person households

mary ann

mary ann

in case I didn’t send you (all) this, about Matisse, it is my greeting card for happy holidays and merry on and on, with warm hello right now, mary ann

and if I did send it, oh well, not to worry, Matisse keeps…

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so it isn’t just Present surrealisms as a topic, but what kind of writing or thinking or reading do you find relevant in whatever field, since for me, surrealisms goes so far to include so much, and am interested in your thinking!

and let me know, and i will…[Read more]

clearly I am in ERROR, maybe it doesn’t like Matisse for security reasons! should go back to Picasso! or change the file type! eeek, very surrealist of me, in negative sense!

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