Tag Archives: Dada
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The Carl Andre “Three-Cone Emergency” Installation: EmPlathicized Poetics
Leave a commentNovember 6, 2025 by tsk2001
I’m walking in the park when I notice what strikes me immediately as a ponderously weighty Carl Andre sculpture, but …
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The Belated Jarry Birthday Mashup
Leave a commentSeptember 9, 2025 by tsk2001
It was yesterday, the 8th, which is also when the Catholic Church celebrates the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, …
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Reconfiguring Breton’s “Free Union”: In the Ear of the Behearer
2August 16, 2025 by tsk2001
Is André Breton’s list poem, “Free Union,” the French precursor of Ginsberg’s “Howl”? Well, no, or perhaps it is, but …
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The Duchamp Haikus: Art Eats the Spectator
Leave a commentAugust 6, 2025 by tsk2001
There was a time some years ago when BTR had a sideline in poetic assemblage, known as Squotations: strict 5-7-5 …
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Étant Donné: BTR-Image
1July 31, 2025 by tsk2001
The Duchamp birthday post of July 28 included a spontaneous and very brief image prompt: “Marcel Duchamp blowing out the candles …
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Prose Poem (On Marcel Duchamp’s Birthday)
1July 28, 2025 by tsk2001
It’s July 28. Something must be run through BTR to celebrate this hallowed occasion. I ask Chat for poets who …
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Hugo Ball/Bastille Day Dada-Bada-Bing
Leave a commentJuly 14, 2025 by tsk2001
It’s Bastille Day and also, not coincidentally, the day, in 1916, when Hugo Ball presented his Dada Manifesto in Zurich—in …
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A Readymade: In Advance of Jasper Johns’ Broken Arm
1June 19, 2025 by tsk2001
And a poem to complement the image. I asked Chat to write a short poem about Jasper Johns’ Flag paintings …
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