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

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TONIGHT -- wander amidst the whirling snow & early evening over to Malá Strana
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For those of you in Prague -- come on over to Café Club Míšenská in Malá Strana next Wednesday evening!
Twisted Spoon Press & Alexander Booth present the work of Gerhard Rühm / Wednesday, November 26 at 19:30 / Café Club Míšenská / Míšenská 71/3 / Malá Strana, Prague
November 26, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Counting, accounting and recounting: The Folded Clock by Gerhard Rühm, translated by Alexander Booth @wordkunst.bsky.social @twistedspoon.bsky.social #GermanLitMonth
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Counting, accounting and recounting: The Folded Clock by Gerhard Rühm
two! one two  – one two  –  three! .        two one two three  –   four .       two “a recounting,” the first number poem you encounter in Gerhard Rühm’s The Folded Clock, opens with a lengthy note…
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November 26, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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mist & slick midafternoon Moldau Vltava view towards the Castle mist Prague
November 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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The NOMI Song (On the inimitable singer Klaus Nomi : 1944-1983)

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The Nomi Song (Documemtary)
YouTube video by Pagan Love Song
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November 23, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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November 23, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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Stoked to be published by @ccohanlon.bsky.social in Burning House Press this month, writing about my trial monitoring years in Turkey. @thearsonista.bsky.social
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"By now you will be an international advocate. You will monitor 200 trials, hoping it will all get better. But fascism doesn’t need much sleep. When it’s too late you’ll see that you were not creative enough. You weren’t armed to the porcelained teeth or in league with deep state."
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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November 2025
Analog postcard collage / blue crepe-paper square on white half circle of b/w hands tiny red square
November 22, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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For those of you in Prague -- come on over to Café Club Míšenská in Malá Strana next Wednesday evening!
Twisted Spoon Press & Alexander Booth present the work of Gerhard Rühm / Wednesday, November 26 at 19:30 / Café Club Míšenská / Míšenská 71/3 / Malá Strana, Prague
November 17, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Raoul Hausmann (1886-1971)
b/w faded to sepia photographic print of an enlarged eye looking back at the viewer from a round makeup mirror
November 22, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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Good fun from when alternative / underground culture was alternative @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social on the changing genus loci as seen through local bars, Klaus Maeck on the making of his film Decoder, O Yuki Conjugate & more

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The Third Annual "everything you never knew you were interested in" The Korm Plastics Yearbook on Music
November 22, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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Evensong

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Curse (2021 Expanded Remaster ), by Legendary Pink Dots
13 track album
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November 21, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Friederike Mayröcker (tr. wordkunst) / Tobias Pils (*1971)
Tobias Raphael Pils. "Pencil, Ink on Paper, 180 x 110 cm, 1995" or a Raphael-Necessity [for description = next image] text by Friederike Mayröcker there she is now in front of the stacked chairs, and I can see her tugging the threads, syruplike, doubling her dark figure (rear view) wearing 1 covering upon her narrow skull, a very black covering with two little Chinese pigtails like antennae, Dalí moustache, straining, stretching her long arms or garment sleeves to the floor and sanding, and in the look of her eyes I had no idea where to *hell with it* all, namely, those camels and Alhambras hiding themselves in 1 flood of light, and first had to look up the meanings of the word, after the fact, and maybe this figure here on the paper is saying something I can't understand, but the echo of the words has been calling back from the walls of my room for a long time, I mean, it was 1 MINDTHICKET, I think the uncapped felt-tip had gotten caught up in the underblanket, FIZZLED-OUT, so that everything was full of black lines and envelopes and spidery cantilevers : striped, spotted, scorched, a spit of color, ink and charcoal, studded they were with dark my blanket and sheet, unadorned by clumps of soot; foot binding
November 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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For all SOTL dreamers out there . . .

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Stars of the Lid Forever is a fan-led project to archive their live recordings from over the years, all compiled in one place for your listening pleasure.
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November 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Friederike Mayröcker (tr. wordkunst) / Tobias Pils (*1971)
Tobias Raphael Pils. "Pencil, Ink on Paper, 180 x 110 cm, 1995" or a Raphael-Necessity [for description = next image] text by Friederike Mayröcker there she is now in front of the stacked chairs, and I can see her tugging the threads, syruplike, doubling her dark figure (rear view) wearing 1 covering upon her narrow skull, a very black covering with two little Chinese pigtails like antennae, Dalí moustache, straining, stretching her long arms or garment sleeves to the floor and sanding, and in the look of her eyes I had no idea where to *hell with it* all, namely, those camels and Alhambras hiding themselves in 1 flood of light, and first had to look up the meanings of the word, after the fact, and maybe this figure here on the paper is saying something I can't understand, but the echo of the words has been calling back from the walls of my room for a long time, I mean, it was 1 MINDTHICKET, I think the uncapped felt-tip had gotten caught up in the underblanket, FIZZLED-OUT, so that everything was full of black lines and envelopes and spidery cantilevers : striped, spotted, scorched, a spit of color, ink and charcoal, studded they were with dark my blanket and sheet, unadorned by clumps of soot; foot binding
November 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Twin Peaks: An Owl in the woods.
An Owl in the woods. Twin Peaks S01E05 - The One-Armed Man.
November 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Currently reading : the current Codrescu
Andrei Codrescu's latest collection of poems (& photographs), How to Live Under Fascism, published by Black Widow Press
November 20, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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The one & only Bob Kaufman

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Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman, foreword by devorah major, edited by Neeli Cherkovski, Raymond Foye, Tate Swindell, published by City Lights Books
November 18, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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a heap of snowdusted fur hats, on a makeshift table, glimpses of a foreign century
November 18, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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For those of you in Prague -- come on over to Café Club Míšenská in Malá Strana next Wednesday evening!
Twisted Spoon Press & Alexander Booth present the work of Gerhard Rühm / Wednesday, November 26 at 19:30 / Café Club Míšenská / Míšenská 71/3 / Malá Strana, Prague
November 17, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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foolishness 6

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November 17, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Ive been enjoying this the last couple of days & a fine intro indeed the whole collection certainly befits the recent weather
geoliminal.bsky.social Eric Williams @geoliminal.bsky.social · Oct 31
Did you know Weird Tales published fiction in translation in the 20s and 30s? Why not read some in NIGHT FEARS: WEIRD TALES IN TRANSLATION. I wrote the intro and selected stories from the mag, and @paradiseeditions.bsky.social is publishing it!
pre-order it now!
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November 17, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Our job as Team Human is not to succumb to the zero-sum mentality of the wealthy.

They’re the ones who have given up on prosperity.

They are living the nightmare.

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The Intentional Collapse
The elite are committed to the end of the world, but we don't have to be.
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November 5, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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On the Ramblings today, my second book from @twistedspoon.bsky.social this week - a stunning poetry collection from Gerhard Ruhm, in a wonderful translation by Alexander Booth @wordkunst.bsky.social. And it fits for #GLM2025! More here: kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/11/15/i...
“…I was never younger or older…” #twistedspoonpress
The second Twisted Spoon Press book I want to share this week is very different from “The Tigress”, but equally as fascinating! The author is Gerhard Rühm, an author, composer and visua…
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November 15, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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November 2025 / Sunday
red-and-white newsprint analog postcard collage reading : Ru he [the latter upside down] translation : quiet, calm, peace
November 16, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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November 2025
jumble of b/w newsprint letters pressed one atop the other maybe in the form of a rough gem analog postcard collage
November 16, 2025 at 8:58 AM