dadaism

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I Am With You : Kassák Lajos / Manuel Alvarez Bravo

Posted by Carmen Lobo✔ ⋅ August 9, 2015 ⋅ Leave a comment

In front of you I go you in front of me the early sun’s gold chain jingles on my wrist. Where are you going — I ask you answer — how do I know. I speed up my walk but you speed all the more. I in front of you you in front of me. … Continue reading →

Ernst Jandl : Experimental poetry

Posted by Carmen Lobo✔ ⋅ January 26, 2013 ⋅ 10 Comments

1964 Ernst Jandl (1925-2000, Vienna) is Austria’s most famous writer of experimental poetry in the tradition of expressionism and dadaism. Stylistically, he cuts and distorts, bends and mixes words, leaves vowels away, exchanges consonants, removes syllables, mixes words of different languages and reads his poems in a way that they make perfect and wonderful sense again in the end. … Continue reading →