November 26, 2024 9:13 pm

Meeting Bench

TRACKS: Poetry, by Henrik Ibsen

TRACKS Death does not put me more afraid. They get so many comrades continually. I will find the way following quietly their fresh tracks. (Henrik Ibsen) http://www.amazon.com/Ibsens-Poems-Henrik-Ibsen/dp/8200074552  

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LOUISA MATTHIASDOTTIR (1917/2000), ICELANDIC PAINTER: The colours flavor, both mellow and astringent, which no other painter has given us

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BLACK AND WITHE PICTURES: Poetry, by Gyrdir Eliasson

BLACK AND WITHE PICTURES     Star outfitted in a row gray fence in front of the house gray in the fog they start up flight from the fog on black wings into the light. (Gyrdir Eliasson) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stone-Tree-Gyrdir-Eliasson/dp/1905583087

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TIMELESS BOOKS: Angels of the universe, by Einar Már Gudmundsson

ANGELS OF THE UNIVERSE They are in the mood, sad feelings inside the cold Iceland. Reality and fantasy merge, through the pages of the book, while the houses of loneliness open their doors to every reader. You will know the protagonist of the book – Pall – you will observe children who watch over the angels, in the midst of …

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CHARLES COMFORT (1900/1994), CANADIAN PAINTER: The expressive design and dramatic characterization of portraits and landscapes

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MARSDEN HARTLEY (1877/1943), AMERICAN PAINTER: All colors of naturalism mystical and transcendental

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BY ONE WHO PASS’D FOR CHAMBERMAID: Poetry, by Ebenezer Cook

BY ONE WHO PASS’D FOR CHAMBERMAID By one who pass’d for Chamber-Maid. Tho’ by her loose and sluttish Dress, She rather seem’d a Bedlam-Bess. Curious to know from whence she came, I prest her to declare her Name. She Blushing, seem’d to hide her Eyes, And thus in Civil Terms replies: In better Times, e’er to this Land, I was …

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TIMELESS BOOKS: Islands in the Stream, Ernest Hemingway

ISLANDS IN THE STREAM “Bimini”, “Cuba” and “the sea”. A trilogy of the sea, where you will know Thomas Hudson and his inner conflicts, where you can relive the atmosphere of old Havana, and you can – finally – get the archipelago “Jardines del Rey”, and you seem to hear something that comes from a distance, from another novel by …

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WIFREDO LAM (1902/1982), CUBAN PAINTER: Atmospheres realistic and cubistic, in the primitive graffiti

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NOT ALL ENDS: Poetry, by Fina García Marruz

NOT ALL ENDS Not everything ends. It all starts as a whimper. It all begins, and with reddened eyes. Ah, father. Pain generates. I love sleeping on a leaf. Enchantment blue is love. Red carnation as exploding in the shadows, pale, ardent love is. It all begins. At times, breaking the mass of clouds, the penalty had so hoped. Will …

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