Jacqueline Rush Lee
http://www.jacquelinerushlee.com
Phoenix9[at]hawaii[dot]rr[dot]com
Hunter Stockton Thompson è un nome che dirà qualcosa a pochi gonzi. Infatti è l’autore del così detto “Gonzo Journalism”uno stile di scrittura che combina il giornalismo convenzionale, le impressioni personali e gli artifici narrativi del racconto per produrre un personale punto di vista sugli avvenimenti e sulle situazioni.
Ma oggi, piuttosto che di scuole di giornalismo, parliamo del libro perfetto per chi ha voglia di sapere come e quando è andato disintegrandosi il sogno americano. Ovvero, oggi su Wasabix, dopo il solleone di Ferragosto, vi risvegliamo parlando di “Paura e disgusto a Las Vegas” (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas), storia di una allucinata cavalcata on the road.
Hunter, il cacciatore, infila parola per parola immagini e situazioni, una dietro l’altra,raccontando l’avventura di un moderno e allucinato Don Chisciotte, alla ricerca del suo sogno: la libertà. Il suo Sancho Panzo è un degnerato avvocato di origini samoane sempre pronto a risolvere le situazioni grazie ad un improprio uso della comunicazione verbale.
La scrittura, nella sua forma sublime, è qui sottile come un velo.
Questo libro è pronto per svelarci il mondo nascosto, le brutture, le ipocrisie, che troppo bene si nascondo e si annidano dietro alle bianche facciate della tanto decantata normalità e moralità occidentale.
Hunter Thompson ha il grande merito di raccontare con una lingua, tagliente come uno scalpello, quello che è stato e quello che poteva essere, senza criticare apertamente quello che è ma distruggendo tutto con la forza del suo onirico pensiero. A lui è toccato raccogliere la sconfitta ereditata dalla Beat Generation, il sogno tramutatosi in incubo dove le percezioni si adeguano alla follia e lo ha fatto a modo suo, nel migliore dei modi, raccontandoci un mondo allucinato e deviato dove solo chi ha paura e prova disgusto può ancora sognare in qualcosa di meglio.
Terry Gilliam, ex Monthy Python, ha voluto trasportare sul grande schermo l’incubo narrativo di Thompson; protagonisti della pellicola sono Johnny Depp e Benicio Del Toro.
Le Centre culturel suisse présente dans sa nouvelle librairie du 32 rue des Francs-Bourgeois les trente ouvrages récompensés lors du concours Les plus beaux livres suisses 2009. Ce concours annuel, organisé par l’Office fédéral de la culture, a pour objectif de mettre en valeur des publications au graphisme contemporain particulièrement significatif. Le jury en évalue le design et la typographie, la qualité de l’impression et de la reliure, ainsi que les matériaux utilisés, en privilégiant en particulier l’innovation et l’originalité.
Un catalogue des lauréats est publié, dans lequel éditeurs, artistes et designers parlent de l’avenir du livre à l’époque des nouvelles technologies.
Exposition «Les plus beaux livres suisses»
Les ouvrages primés dans le cadre du concours «Les beaux livres suisses» sont présentés lors de deux expositions: l’une à Zurich au Museum für Gestaltung, l’autre à Lausanne au mudac (Musée de design et des arts appliqués contemporain). Ils sont également présentés lors de la foire du livre de Francfort et d’autres foires du livre internationales (Leipzig, Teheran, Cape Town, Guadalajara, etc.), ainsi qu’aux divers villes dans le monde entier (dont Berlin, Bruxelles, Londre, New York, Centre culturel suisse Paris, Tokyo, Vienne).
- Exposition «Les plus beaux livres suisses 2009 – Concours de l’Office fédéral de la culture»
Museum für Gestaltung Zurich
13 juin au 4 juillet 2010
vernissage de l’exposition: Samedi, 12 juin 2010, 11h
http://www.museum-gestaltung.ch
- du vendredi 30 juillet au dimanche 1er août 2010, exposition au staziun Lavin en Basse-Engadine.
Ouvert le vendredi et le samedi de 13h à 22h, le dimanche de 13h à 19h.
http://www.staziun-lavin.ch
- Exposition «Les plus beaux livres suisses 2009 – Concours de l’Office fédéral de la culture»
mudac, Lausanne
3 novembre 2010 au 13 février 2011
vernissage de l’exposition: Mardi, 2 novembre 2010, 18h
http://www.mudac.ch
- Foire du livre de Francfort
6 au 10 octobre 2010
http://www.buchmesse.de/en/fbf/
EXPOSITION / Les plus beaux livres suisses
Vernissage 21.09.10 18H – 20H
du mardi au dimanche mardi – vendredi : 10 h – 18 h / samedi – dimanche : 13h –19h
entrée libre
Centre culturel suisse Paris
32-38, rue des Francs-Bourgeois
F-75003 Paris
Tél. +33 (0)1 42 71 44 50
Jennifer Still’s poetry has appeared in The Fiddlehead, Prairie Fire, CV2, Other Voices, Qwerty, NewWest Review, Tart and Spring. A series of poems were dramatized for Globe Theatre’s 2003 On the Line festival and another series will be broadcast on CBC radio in 2005. Jennifer’s creative non-fiction has been broadcast on CBC Radio and her poetry chapbook, Remnant, was published in December 2002 by JackPine Press. She is the guest poet for the 2004 Sage Hill Teen Writing Experience. These poems are from her first book, Saltations.
All Our Wonder Unavenged
All Our Wonder Unavenged is a meditative poem, exploring our kinship and connectivity with the world. The poem chronicles the events of a few hours spent in mindfulness.
http://www.jackpinepress.com/book.php?id=31
SNAKE / SKIN @ boulderpavement.ca
SNAKE / SKIN : Click to read poem (12 pages) @ boulderpavement.ca
Saskatoon-based chapbook publisher JackPine Press
Saskatoon-based chapbook publisher JackPine Press facilitates the creation of hand-produced chapbook projects in limited editions of 75 copies. Our mandate is to publish literary and artistic book works that demonstrate a unified collaboration of text and design.
The JackPine Press Editorial Collective provides some editorial, artistic and technical direction, but the primary role of the Press is to provide financial and promotional support for the creation of innovative book objects. JackPine artists and writers are the creative directors of their work, overseeing the creative direction and production from concept to completion.
JackPine Press provides writers and artists a venue to engage in visual and textual dialogues. Its mission is to publish chapbooks whose form and content are both artistically integrated and unique. The result of these collaborations between writers and artists are handmade books that are as interesting as art objects as they are engaging works of literature.
JackPine Press was founded in 2002 By Tim Lilburn, Sheri Benning, Jennifer Still, Heather Benning, Rosalie Benning and Helen Marzolf. JackPine has published 34 limited edition, hand-bound chapbooks written and designed by Saskatchewan and Canadian artists.
http://www.jackpinepress.com
http://www.boulderpavement.ca/issue001/snake-skin/
ID presents a spanish translation of the late Czech Poet Miroslav Holub’s Vanishing Lung Syndrome together with the complicite colaboration of 56 international artists to mirror the spirit of his loquacious texts with dream images provided with the only requirement of fitting an A4 size. Printed in red and green in an edition of 1000 for Galeria Metropolitana and the final stages of Protocolo Ouro Preto in the Biennal do Mercosul (to be given away for free at these events).
Instruction to print the booklet (printing version):
This publication has 120 interior pages that can be printed to fit on A4 or A3. In printing preferences choose printing odd numbers first, then reverse the order of the resulting stack of prints, flip and insert again in the printer to print down the even numbers, this will yield a nice collection of 58 images opposed to 58 pages of witty poems. Print the cover and fold. The original issue is unbound so the pages can be interchanged and progressively fucked up according to the user’s whim. Good luck!
Lively Presence: Vanishing Lung Syndrome
Editorial Project, Santiago de Chile, Portoalegre, Brazil, October 2009
http://www.instituto-divorciado.org
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