…left us on this day, 13 years ago. Which I suddenly realized as this morning I set to gather a dossier on his work for an issue of a French magazine (L’Homme sans épaules) to be published in the summer of 2016. Here, in my English translation, a poem from the late sixties, from the volume Jukeboxes: Good-bye tristesse, hello tristesse – we are in Paradise & the dead laugh … Read more Claude Pélieu, poet & collagist extraordinaire…
If in Paris in March, don’t miss the exhibition of Jackson Mac Low‘s collages & constructions that will be at David & Marcel Fleiss’ Galerie 1900 -2000, 8 rue Bonaparte, 7506, from 14 March to 15 April — opening 14 March, 6: 30 p.m. The gallery is publishing a catalogue of JML’s collage work, with an introduction by myself.
Beginning to prepare to get ready to prepare to move to Brooklyn. Things come to light as I shift papers. Thus these two collages by Ted Berrigan & Alice Notley from the days spent together in Brightlingsea, Essex. Ted, generous as ever, gives the date as 1973-74.