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Alexander Booth. Poetry. Translation (Mayröcker, Kluge, Penna, Wittgenstein et al). Analog collage. Existential Analysis / Logotherapy. Epigrams unto emptiness. Tread the path with care. [email protected] / IG: @wordkunst

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wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 3h

b/w newsprint analog collage on black construction paper (middle left the philosopher Simone Weil staring at the camera a rifle slung over her right shoulder, top middle-right a pair of black jeaned legs walking away, bottom right the word 'pronostico' [forecast, prediction] laid vertical)

March 2024

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wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 1d

heh heh heh indeedy

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sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 1d

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wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, massive and round, they speak to a very specific space/time, I myself had a pair of fairly round ones (though not as round as those!) though, alas, no moody beaches to waif upon

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wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 1d

Dig them '90s specs (which really were still just '80s specs, werent they)--!

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wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 1d

Too kind, thank you

wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 2d

Impromptu (September)

Smudged bars of charcoal, black tea clouds within a kind of square, on white notebook paper

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wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 2d

For All My Walking mag ich sehr

wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 2d

Somehow BLD gets better every year

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Bruce Adams @bruceadams.bsky.social · May 30

You should know that @stephenebaker.bsky.social was once in @krankyltd.bsky.social band Tomorrowland and has continued to make wonderful music.

Stephen Baker @stephenebaker.bsky.social · May 30

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wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 4d

Evensong

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The Sheer Action of the Fini Tribe 1982-1987, by Fini Tribe

47 track album

chrisconnelly.bandcamp.com

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wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 4d

Straight out of Liverpool, from Jeff Young's wonderful exhibition, 'Haunted Paper', which I was lucky enough to see this past August, accompanied by the artist himself @wildtwin.bsky.social

Reproduction of collage : Rimbaud's famous portraited face torn in two, smudge of dark pink unearthed rings of green & yellow horizontal above the words "falling through space," & horizontal below "upwards to unknown galaxies,"

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wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 4d

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wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 6d

October 2025

b/w + color newsprint analog collage on white Hahnemühle postcard paper (faceless long straight blonde hair atop a b/w image from a foreign century of people standing before an awning with the words "Anti-Krieg" [anti-war] peering back at us through the empty space three tiny flecks of red)

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wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 5d

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wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 5d

I love what I heard from an editor once : We are the grit in the oyster

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wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 5d

Will check this out, thanks for bringing it to my attention!

wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 5d

You're a sweetheart, thank you 😊

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Twisted Spoon Press @twistedspoon.bsky.social · 6d

Good interview with translator @wordkunst.bsky.social in this month's issue of @theberliner.bsky.social . Alex's translation of The Folded Clock by Gerhard Rühm is out soon.
www.scribd.com/document/929...

Interview with Alexander Booth | PDF

An interview with translator Alexander Booth about his work on Gerhard Rühm, Alexander Kluge, et al., in the October 2025 issue of The Berliner.

www.scribd.com

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wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 6d

October 2025

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wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 6d

Pale Blue Eyes 2025

watercolor clouds & pools of various blues with surface skitters of black ink on white postcard paper

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wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 6d

Yesssss! It's funny to me how every year I care for them more and more, sad I never made it to see them when I still lived in Rome the times they played at Villa Ada

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wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 14d

Groovy new HEX ENDUCTION QUARTERLY from Hex Enduction Records & Books in Seattle just arrived! Thank you! @pagefort.bsky.social

Hex Enduction Quarterly, No. 19, Sept 2025. b/w photocopied zine from Hex Enduction Records & Books in Seattle, Washington

Two b/w photocopied collages by Alexander Booth / wordkunst (fingers on forehead, drapery, snowy landscape beneath & mountain; faceless female form from a foreign century, braided hair traditional Germanic dress, torn fragments of writing & blurred tones beneath)

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wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 6d

October 2025

Three postcards on a scuffed & scarred wooden desktop they're done in a flurry of red paints, yellow paint, charcoal, b/w & color newsprint, next to them a pen, fragments of newsprint, a paint dabbed seashell, a roll of tape

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wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 7d

Congratulations, Róisín! 🤗

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