Duende, duende, dada! Frued! Leaping Poetry! Phrenology! Dragon smoke! Manifestoes! A dreams release from the shackles of parenthesis! Moral advancement! Strategic madness! Nudity! Sleeping logicians! Wooden bridges! Death in a moving van! Convulsive beauty! Art for Change!
“I believe in the future resolution of two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality.”
-Breton
“To help us seek the duende there are neither maps nor disciplines. All one knows is that it burns the blood like powdered glass, that it exhausts,that it rejects all the sweet geomotry one has learned, that it breaks with all styles…when a poet has duende inside him, he brushes past death with each step. The magical quality of a poem consists in its being possessed by the duende, so that whoever beholds it is baptized with dark water.”
-Lorca
More specifically, we publish mixed media poetry from award winning poets and match them with international paintings/photographs. We only use poetry of deep imagery, poetry that expresses news of the universe as opposed to news of the self. We hire professional artists to create a painting/illustration for each and every poem. We hope you support our project to change the world using art, and become inspired to do the same.
Photos by Toshiaki Uchida