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[tittiscotti @tittiscotti]

John Constable,
'Rainstorm over the Sea', ca. 1824-1828

[kaelestia @kaelestia]

An illustration of ‹ The poet Homer › (ʾŪmīrūš al-šāʿir) from a 13th cent. Arabic MS, likely drawn in Mosul.

[n+1 @nplusonemag]

“People said that he was an avid philologist, and had a giant file devoted to the word ‘dust,’ and believed that it was imperative to learn Anglo-Saxon.” From Issue 11: Emily Witt on J. H. Prynne. https://t.co/iObSfCrPNM

[The Mabbster @oren_mabb]

goodbye, J. H. Prynne - final poem in the beautiful "Pearls That Were" --

[Tom Snarsky @TomSnarsky]

devastated to hear that the poet J. H. Prynne died this morning. Prynne’s work has been a source of fascination, inspiration, puzzlement, & awe for me since ~2011, when his book Kazoo Dreamboats totally rearranged what I believed poetry could be. His poems are a tremendous gift:

[john milbank @johnmilbank3]

Rest in Peace J.H. Prynne. One of the two greatest English poets since 1945. (The other being Geoffrey Hill.).

[Endnotes @endnotesjournal]

New translation: Günther Anders' open letter to the Viennese Jewish Community, 1982

https://t.co/hRqCZButFS

[Japan Society Film @js_film_nyc]

R.I.P. Shozin Fukui (1961-2026), visceral DIY and independent cyberpunk filmmaker known for RUBBER’S LOVER (1996), 964 PINOCCHIO (1991) and CATERPILLAR (1988).

[— @graveair]

Pier Paolo Pasolini

[𝐬𝐨𝐯 @sovietsoleri]

Tatiana Bystrova. “Nocturnal Bloom,” 1970.

[jonathan mackris @feuilladist]

Teaching some flicker films this week—I always find the diagrams for these films very cool. Here's Sharits' diagram for T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G and Lowder's diagram for Poppies and Sailboats

[Solas @solas_na_greine]

Giovanni di Paolo, The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise, c.1445

[Synekura Audio @synekura_audio]

Alexander Kluge talks about his mentor, Fritz Lang

[Chicot @parianmarble]

Achille Duchêne

[Morris Collins @MorrisACollins]

It's been a decade since Jim Harrison passed away at his desk while writing this poem. I don't know where the poem would have gone, but considering the decade to come, "Man shits his pants and trashed God's body" is a hell of a place to end:

[𝔊𝔲𝔫𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯 @_GVNTHER_]

Moses and the Burning Bush — Ernst Fuchs

[Marysia @marysia_cc]

Salvador Dalí
The Annunciation to Mary
Biblia Sacra, 1967

[Le film est déjà commencé? @takumihurry]

Reality's Invisible (1971) dir. Robert Fulton

[Art Encyclopedia @artenpedia]

Hilma af Klint

[Iodine @photo2electric]

While writing his Symphony No. 5, Sibelius wrote in his diary, "It was as if God the Father was throwing pieces of mosaic from the edge of heaven and asking me to figure out what the pattern was.” This symphony is often characterized as organic, natural, heroic, and even divine.