Meeting Benches World art in all forms
FRENCH CONTEMPORARY POETRY: Henri Michaux, from “La Nuit Remue”, Council on the pines
“A monotonous noise does not necessarily calm. An auger not calm anyone, except perhaps the foreman. Still, it is among the monotonous noise that you have more chance of finding the calm. What is nice in the sound of the wind blowing on a forest pines, is that this noise has no edges, is round. But it has nothing to …
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SPANISH CONTEMPORARY POETRY: Ángel Guinda, Avid Life
“Tu boca vertical me escupió oblicuo y no ha dejado tu sangre de rodar; más que en la mesa, al volcarse una botella, su dentro se derrama. Y esa sangre no puede coagular sino en mi pecho, en esa bomba músculo que llaman corazón y yo taberna. Bebo mosto de alumbramiento, negro alcohol espejo de tu ausencia. Llevo toda la …
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FERREIRA GULLAR, ALL POETRY: None, vacancies
NAO HÁ VAGAS “O preço do feijão não cabe no poema. O preço do arroz não cabe no poema. Não cabem no poema o gás a luz o telefone a sonegação do leite da carne do açúcar do pão. O funcionário público não cabe no poema com seu salário de fome sua vida fechada em arquivos. Como não cabe no …
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ANDREA DEL CASTAGNO, ITALIAN RENAISSANCE PAINTER: The master of realism gestural, in the shade of Masaccio and Donatello
LANDSCAPES OF THE SOUL: A poem from “Cuando todo calla”, by Hugo Mujica
“Viento y las nubes se deshacen; brisa y blancas se transfiguran. Hay ecos que no son de las palabras son del aliento, no nos repiten, nos convocan a escuchar lo que para decirse nos llama. Hay una hendidura en la palabra hendidura, un desgarro donde cada palabra calla, donde todo callar crea; es lo que en el decir es aliento …
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ANDREA DE LITIO, RENAISSANCE PAINTER: knew the style of the painters of Florence, but he preferred to paint in the late Gothic style
DIE FOR NOT DIE FOR, BY PAUL ELUARD: To make be trapped
“This is a restaurant like no other. Are we to believe that I do not like anyone? A tall woman beside me, beating eggs with his fingers. A traveler puts his clothes on a table and holds me head. He is wrong, I do not know any mystery, I do not even know the meaning of the word: mystery, I …
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RAFFAELLO SANZIO: The nuances of Perugino and Pinturicchio, still dancing, living inside his Renaissance workshop
LUDOVICO MAZZOLINO: Primitive shades of color, in landscape the Italian Renaissance
LORENZO LOTTO: The painter of the Venetian Renaissance, the man capable of coloring the failures and disappointments
GIOVAN PIETRO RIZZOLI (Giampietrino): The delicate nuances of Mantegna, along with the enchanting atmosphere of Leonardo da Vinci
NOT DIE OF DYIN, BY PAUL ELUARD: In the heart of my love
A beautiful bird shows me the light is in his eyes, in plain view. He sings about mistletoe in the middle of the sun. Eyes singers animals and their anger or boredom songs forbade me to get out of this bed I spend my life. Dawn in countries without grace takes the appearance of oblivion. And that emotional woman …
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FRANCESCO MELZI: Italian Renaissance painter, pupil of Leonardo da Vinci
