i have a pale green
typewriter i want to bring
to the park, i will find shade
and sit with my legs crossed
and the keys crossing, i will
watch people cross my
patch of grass, and i will offer
in Chinese to write them a poem
in English. just give me 3 words,
any 3 words, you can wait in
the sun or the shadow, I will
study you, write a portrait of
you, imagine what it's like
to fall in love with you, to
picture how you groom hair,
face, legs, how you talk
when furious about strangers
and the heat.
we will see.
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There's something magical about the combination of vintage typewriters and the natural texture of wood that brings my creativity to life. Each piece is a labor of love, showcasing my passion for art and nostalgia.
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Image ID: text typed on a typewriter. It reads
perfect
i never heard my mom say no
one can be perfect.
don’t make the same mistakes i did
and don’t make different ones
and i won’t tell you which
is which
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Isolated Life / Typewritten Artist’s Book
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No.15 of the TYPEWRITTEN artists’ book series: Isolated Life by Hiromi Suzuki
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Acknowledgements:
In 2020, a 'stay at home' warning due to pandemic forced us to avoid outings. For the first time in a long time, I put Olivetti's typewriter on my desk and started this Isolated Life series. The typewriter keyboard has a sound and rhythm which makes me feel like I am playing music. On an isolated island in the ocean, tapping the keyboard I sang the songs alone. Then, I loaded my finished poems on a beautiful crafty boat that dear Petra Schulze-Wollgast prepared on the cove for me. I hope that my collection after drifting, and wandering will find its way to some ports and reach you all. - hiromi suzuki
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This book contains 20+2 typewriter graphics and two printer’s summaries.
Printed on Gestetner 160 mimeograph. Hand-bound edition of 60 copies, 26 pages, 28x21cm landscape size, January 2023.
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via psw gallery / TYPEWRITTEN artists' book series
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fear of abandonment ––
to be abandoned, or
to abandon?
defensive, so as not to be hurt,
or cautious to not be cruel?
I was both the subjected
and the provocateur.
some people are afraid
of feeling the pain alone.
some share the feeling,
some share the pain, so it
could be felt.
a hand can greet or
grasp frantically
at another's hand that will
eventually retreat to its own body.
to have enough power to not
be a victim,
not too much to be violent.
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Jack Kerouac, "Belief & Technique for Modern Prose"
(source: https://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88v/kerouac-technique.html)
Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
Submissive to everything, open, listening
Try never get drunk outside yr own house
Be in love with yr life
Something that you feel will find its own form
Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
Blow as deep as you want to blow
Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind
The unspeakable visions of the individual
No time for poetry but exactly what is
Visionary tics shivering in the chest
In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you
Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition
Like Proust be an old teahead of time
Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog
The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye
Write in recollection and amazement for yourself
Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea
Accept loss forever
Believe in the holy contour of life
Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind
Dont think of words when you stop but to see picture better
Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in yr morning
No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge
Write for the world to read and see yr exact pictures of it
Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form
In praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness
Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better
You're a Genius all the time
Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven
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