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  • A DREAM LANDSCAPE SHAPED BY THE SUN AND THE TRAMONTANA

    A nonconformist dialogue between painting, sculpture and poetry Get ready for an experience that goe…

  • AN UNEXPECTED LITERARY STAGE

    Moving between connective tissues of words and stone You are about to meet the person who accompanie…

  • INNOVATION AND CREATIVE FREEDOM

    Explore the unconscious and challenge conventions, through art Roland Penrose, a central figure in B…

  • BOTTICELLI’S SPRING

    Beauty, nature and harmony through a mythological allegory The Renaissance, a historical and cultura…

  • NEW BEGINNINGS

    An invitation to rediscover the world with eyes full of wonder Spring, a symbol of renewal and new b…

  • DREAMTIME

    Australian Aboriginal and ancestral spirits who created the world “Leaving bitterness behind i…

  • THE OCEAN’S PATH

    Poetry and Culture of the French Pacific Islands You’re intrigued by the idea of an escape, somethin…

  • WALKING IN BEAUTY

    A Journey Where Wisdom Comes from Listening, Not Speaking The Indigenous Peoples of North America th…

  • ROMEO, JULIET AND A BALCONY

    Passion and Tragedy in Shakespeare’s Verona The desire to escape from the everyday and take re…

  • TOWARDS THE INNER LIGHT

    Provence Trip, Inspiration for All Beauty Lovers “Sometimes you leave to forget, other times t…

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BURNING ONESELF OUT – Poetry, by Adrienne Rich

She is best known as a key figure in feminist poetry. For she, transformation goes beyond the act of writing, and Adrienne Rich (1929/2012) delineated her poetics relatively early in her career in a 1971 essay. The form of her poems, also you can discover that has evolved with her content, moving from tight formalist lyrics to experimental poems, also …

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PURITY – Novel, by Jonathan Franzen

He was born in Illinois, and is an American novelist and essayist. He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1981 and studied thereafter at the Freie Universität in Berlin on a Fulbright scholarship. His debut novel was The Twenty-seventh City. His second novel was Strong Motion. Winner of the National Book Award for The Corrections (2001), Jonathan Franzen‘s recent novels have …

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WHEN THE MUSIC BECOME POETRY – Take me home, Country Road / John Denver

TAKE ME HOME, COUNTRY ROAD > Almost heaven, West Virginia, Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River. Life is old there, older than the trees, younger than the mountains, blowing like a breeze. Country roads, take me home to the place I belong. West Virginia, mountain mamma, take me home, country roads. All my memories gather round her, miner’s lady, stranger to …

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TO BE NOBODY – Poetry, by Edward Estlin Cummings

Love poems and descriptive nature poems, would always be his favoured forms. Edward Estlin Cummings (1894/1962), he was born in Massachusetts, to indulgent parents who encouraged him to develop his creative gifts. In 1917 he volunteered to serve in the Norton-Harjes Ambulance group in France. At the end of the First World War, he went to Paris to study art. …

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FOR HIM I SING – Poetry, by Walt Whitman

On the West Hills of Long Island (New York), he was born 1819, on May day. His father was a carpenter and his mother barely literate that gave him unconditional love. At the age of eleven Walt Whitman was withdrawn from public school, to help support his family. At the age of twelve he fell in love with the written …

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INTO MY OWN – Poetry, by Robert Frost

He wrote poems whose philosophical dimensions transcend any region. Although his verse forms are traditional, he was a pioneer in the interplay of rhythm and meter. Robert Frost, born San Francisco (Mar. 26, 1874), and dead Boston (Jan. 29, 1963). At the age of 38, he sold the farm moving with his family to England, where he could devote himself …

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WHEN THE MUSIC BECOME POETRY – One Dance, by Drake

ONE DANCE – Baby I like your style. Grips on your waist front way, back way.You know that I don’t play streets not safe, but I never run away, even when I’m away. Oti, oti, there’s never much love when we go. I pray to make it back in one piece. I pray, I pray. That’s why I need a …

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THE GRAPES OF WRATH – Novel, by John Steinbeck

He was an American author of many books (including sixteen novels, six non-fiction books, and five collctions of short stories). His works always explored the themes of fate and injustice. Before achieving success as a writer, he dropped out of college, working as a manual laborer. In the first 75 years since The Grapes of Wrath was published, it sold …

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THE WAKE – Poetry, by Jules Supervielle

THE WAKE We saw the wake, but nothing of the boat, because it was happiness that had passed by. They gazed at each other, deep in their eyes a perception at last of the promised clearing, where great stags were running in all their freedom. No hunter entered that country without tears. It was the next day, after a night …

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LIVE, FLESH – Poetry, by Pierre Reverdy

LIVE, FLESH Rise up corpse and walk nothing new under the yellow sun, the last of the last of the coins of gold, the light that flakes away, under the layers of time, the lock on the breaking heart. A thread of silk, a thread of lead, a thread of blood after these waves of silence. Signs of love’s black …

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THE STRANGER – Novel, by Albert Camus

Albert Camus was born on November day in French colonial Algeria. Despite his family’s extreme poverty, he attended the University of Algiers, and after dropping out of the university, he entered the world of political journalism. While in wartime Paris, he developed his philosophy of the absurd. For him, existence seemed simply, absurd.                                The Stranger (published in 1942), it is …

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