wordkunst

@wordkunst

Alexander Booth. Poetry. Translation (Mayröcker, Kluge, Penna, Wittgenstein et al). Analog collage. Existential Analysis / Logotherapy. Epigrams unto emptiness. Tread the path with care. wordkunst@gmail.com / IG: @wordkunst

981 Following1,933 Followers2,584 Posts

YouTube YouTube YouTube Bluesky

Is this your profile?Claim it and wordkunst.dirty.social is yours.Claim profile

wordkunst@wordkunst· Jun 30

June 2026 #analog #collage

Sliver of analog postcard collage on a wooden ground : color newsprint Reubensesque face + a spiraling cell like beads, b/w newsprint arm & hand, a red-&-black triangle on its side

wordkunst@wordkunst· Jun 21

Bildnis einer Trinkerin / Ticket of No Return (1979)

Still frame from Ulrike Ottinger's 1979 film "Bildnis einer Trinkerin" (Ticket of No Return) : beneath a leaden sky in a desolate field ringed by distant prefab buildings a Fellini-esque tableau of a tightrope walker being watched by a woman in black, a small figure, a figure in white holding pigs, and three grey-clad figures with their backs to the viewer in a chair in the foreground

https://www.ulrikeottinger.com/de/filmdetails/ticket-of-no-return

wordkunst@wordkunst· Jun 13

June 2026 #analog #collage

Analog postcard collage vertical torn scraps of white fraktur script on black "entzü--" & "leicht" covered by vertical scrap of brown paper bag with red script "esst obst!" [Eat fruit!] in the upper left of the form created by them an inverted b/w newsprint image of a suited shoulder

wordkunst@wordkunst· Jun 11

Glimpses of a lost world & century in a kind of time capsule found this yesterday evening in a basement book cave by my home a compendium of avant & "off" theatre groups & troupes working moving through the independent Theater in der Garage of Erlangen, Franconia, southern Germany, in the 1970s

b/w cover photo of a bicycle leaning against a stone wall a dark door & marquee upon which Theater in der Garage is written & in red cursive script "Theater anders" [a different kind of theatre] / Cornelia Julius

One of the inserts this one focusing on The Living Theatre a b/w photo of wild-haired Julian Beck above & below the troupe onstage there to perform "Seven Meditations on Political Sado-Masochism"

wordkunst@wordkunst· Jun 6

Another beautiful book from Prague's Twisted Spoon Press @twistedspoon.bsky.social : Visions & Apparitions, Selected Tales of the Uncanny by Ladislav Klíma (1878-1928) (tr. Jed Slast) -- & rather special for me, as it features some of my artwork on & inside twistedspoon.com/visions-appa...

Cover : "Visions & Apparitions / Ladislav Klíma" in blue on red-and-black background featuring a headless torso exploding dissolving into mist & smoke

Collage of torn newsprint scrap of early 20th-cent. bowler-hatted & eyeless men sitting at a table drinking & challenging the camera / a red horizontal tear / a torn newsprint scrap of b/w facade

wordkunst@wordkunst· Jun 5

Mark Dery's @markdery.bsky.social biography of Edward Gorey is absolutely delightful

Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life & Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey by Mark Dery, published by William Collins (b/w photo of an unsmiling white-bearded & beringed Edward Gorey wrapped in his fur coat, peeing over his reading glasses straight into the lens)

wordkunst@wordkunst· May 30

May's End 2026 #analogcollage #collage

wordkunst@wordkunst· May 25

This is a very smart & enjoyable book -- recommended #BookSky #Slovenia #BalkanLit istrosbooks.com/product/the-...

The Masochist by Katja Perat, translated by Michael Biggins, published by Istros Books

wordkunst@wordkunst· May 24

May 2026

color newsprint analog postcard collage of silver letters on red + violet letters on white in an abstract vertical jumble with the word "poezije" in black script itself running vertically upwards overtop

wordkunst@wordkunst· May 20

Up / Down

color photo of a spiral(ing) staircase spiraling upwards towards a point of light

color photo of a spiral(ing) staircase with red metal banisters & green tiles spiraling downwards towards the dark last few spirals an almost yellow glow

wordkunst@wordkunst· May 19

color photo of the wooden bookshelves of an antiquarian bookshop literally filled to the ceiling, two paintings hanging to the right, on the left a larger b/w photograph of the Italian poet Umberto Saba (1883-1957) mid-stride

wordkunst@wordkunst· May 18

color wall reproduction of first issue of Slovenian avant-garde journal TANK (1927-1928) [black script reads "tank no. 1 1/2 / ljubljana s.h.s. / lioubliana s.c.s" on red & orange constructivist-like background of abstract shapes]

wordkunst@wordkunst· May 11

'[T]he ghostly non-presence of the poet [Ferdinand Hardekopf] ... is finally consummated in his systematic preference for translation, a form of expression that guarantees the full scope of linguistic creativity but simultaneously withdraws the substance of authorship' - Anthony Phelan

b/w (possible linotype) portrait of Expressionist "ghost" Ferdinand Hardekopf (1876-1954) by Expressionist poet John Höxter (1884-1938)

wordkunst@wordkunst· May 8

"What do you do when nothing calls you anymore? / When you turn & there is only the light filling the empty window?" Poet Larry Levis (1946-1996) died #OTD at 49, in Richmond, Virginia

b/w photograph of the poet, seated outdoors somewhere, in a rumpled button shirt & dark sports jacket looking just to the right of the lens looking at least 15 years older & he's certainly been on the other side of the veil (photo by Erin Seals)

color snapshot of three 19th-century wooden row houses in blue dusk leafless trees in the middle the one painted yellow the house where the poet lived

wordkunst@wordkunst· May 5

& once you have been . . . www.twistedspoon.com/totalfears.h...

Total Fears: Selected Letters to Dubenka, by Bohumil Hrabal, translated by James Noughton & published by Twisted Spoon Press (yellowish abstract cover image like scarred skin by Vladimír Boudník)

wordkunst@wordkunst· May 5

& once you have been . . . www.twistedspoon.com/tender-barba...

The Tender Barbarian by Bohumil Hrabal, translated by Jed Slast & published by Twisted Spoon Press (explosionalist artwork by Vladimír Budník)

wordkunst@wordkunst· May 3

Thinking about Rome this evening, & Keats & rereading Stanley Plumly's "personal biography"

Cover of Posthumous Keats, by Stanley Plumly (featuring a reproduction of Keats' death mask)

wordkunst@wordkunst· May 2

Grave of German artist Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945), Friedrichsfelde, Lichtenberg, Berlin

Grave of German artist Käthe Kollwitz & family. Sunny day, burgundy colored Japanese maple to the left of the frame, dark headstone surrounded by thuja, mulched ground

wordkunst@wordkunst· Apr 23

April 2026 (on beautiful Velké Losiny handmade paper thanks to @twistedspoon.bsky.social )

b/w newsprint analog postcard collage of torn letters + text of various font & size arranged in an abstract shape

wordkunst@wordkunst· Apr 22

April 2026

b/w newsprint analog postcard collage of various fonts & sizes of torn letters & print in bottom righthand corner of plane

wordkunst@wordkunst· Apr 17

CARNATION in the wild ... copies still available--! Write for more info

Carnation by Alexander Booth (2025), displayed with a mini binder clip against a wooden background

wordkunst@wordkunst· Apr 14

Absinthe lover or no @evanrail.bsky.social 's Absinthe Forger is a fascinating exploration of a spirit, of culture & of the darker sides of collecting & temptation ... I really enjoyed it