Sonnet XVII | Pablo Neruda, 1904-1973
Detail of Antonio Canova’s Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss, 1787-1793 I don’t love you as if you were the salt-rose,...
Poems
Absence | Carlos Drummond de Andrade, 1902 – 1987
Carlos Drummond de Andrade I used to consider absence a lack. And I ignorantly regretted that lack. Today I have...
Ode | A poem by Arthur O’Shaughnessy, 1873
Man Ray, Les Chapeaux, 1933 We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers...
Spring Will Come / 8 Haikus | Matsuo Bashō, 1644-94
Paul Klee, Pink Spring in deep Winter “Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.”...
Laughing Gas IV | A poem by Allen Ginsberg, 1955-56
Allen Ginsberg resting in bed, 1955 to Gary Snyder The red tin begging cup you gave me, I lost it...
The Opium Smoker | A poem by Arthur Symons, 1887
Anonyme, A man smoking an opium pipe, n.d. This painting used to hang in the opium den run by Ah...
My Gift To You | Roberto Bolaño, 1953-2003
Roberto Bolaño My gift to you will be an abyss, she said, but it will be so subtle you’ll perceive...
I was not a Man like You | A poem by Benjamin Fondane, 1933
Man Ray, Benjamin Fondane, 1928 Victor Brauner, The Head of Benjamin...
Twinings | A poem by Dorothy Porter, 1994
Scott McKowen, gravure Insects float black and frantic on the smooth surface of the swimming pool Mrs Norris makes tea...
Quebrantahuesos / bulletin boards | Nicanor Parra, Enrique Lihn & Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1952
Quebrantahuesos, Nicanor Parra, Enrique Lihn and Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1952 Quebrantahuesos, Nicanor Parra, Enrique Lihn and Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1952 Quebrantahuesos, Nicanor...