#Seiichi Niikuni

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I am an empathy machine

for Seiichi Niikuni

through the towns and roads rivers trees and clouds

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[odpcinjedoune]

雨 (ame, rain), Seiichi Niikuni

[kimi-wa-kasa-o-sashiteita]

Seiichi Niikuni, from The Chicago Review Anthology of Concretism (ed. Eugene Wildman

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The Temptation of Not Knowing or The Totem Frog's Blessings

Matsuo Basho's frog is jumping in the water since 1686 and this little haiku still enlightening us. That's some of mine "enlightenings".

Matsuo Basho’s frog is jumping in the water since 1686 and this little haiku still enlightening us. Here are some insights on this amazing poem.

I still do not know Japanese. And I’m still trying to figure out the deeper meanings behind the translations I’m able to read. Proximity is not less distance. (Heidegger) That’s why I’m compelled to see more than my eyes can read. All I can infer comes…

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Seiichi Niikuni (1968)

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Lluvia de Seiichi Niikuni.

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Poema "雨” (雨 es el kanji para la palabra lluvia) de Seiichi Niikuni, 1966. Pide informes acerca de nuestras clases de japonés en línea aquí (cualquier nivel): contacto@yakurefu.com O por WhatsApp https://wa.me/525578646333 Si vives fuera de México, puedes hacer el pago vía PayPal. https://www.instagram.com/p/CD6smT2BxdY/?igshid=8gb4wyekeewo

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Visuelle Poesie, Texts by Friedrich W. Heckmanns and Peter Weiermair, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, 1969 [L'Arengario Studio Bibliografico, Gussago (BS)]. Feat. Vincenzo Accame, Friedrich Achleitner, Ronaldo Azeredo, Carlo Belloli, Edgard Braga, Claus Bremer, Augusto de Campos, Haraldo de Campos, Ugo Carrega, Reinhard Döhl, Carl Fernbach-Flarsheim, Luigi Ferro, Jan Hamilton Finlay, Heinz Gappmayr, Pierre Garnier, Jochen Gerz, Eugen Gomringer, Jose Lino Grünewald, Bahumila Grogerova, Josef Hiršal, Dom Sylvester Houédard, Ernst Jandl, Kitasono Katue, Jiří Kolář, Franz Mon, Ito Motoyuki, Maurizio Nannucci, bpNichol, Seiichi Niikuni, Ladislav Novák, Décio Pignatari, Dieter Rot(h), Gerard Rühm, Aram Saroyan, Siegfried J. Schmidt, Adriano Spatola, Shohachiro Takahashi, Arrigo Lora Totino, Timm Ulrichs, Franco Verdi, Rolf Wezel, Emmett Williams, Pedro Xisto https://www.instagram.com/p/CDXJlq9IAw-/?igshid=v7uoh7afz0y5

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what are some of your favorite poems? i am in need of some more to add to my life!

this is only a small list of the ones i could remember; i wanted to provide full links as well which narrowed down what i could offer u - but this should be a good starting point anyway!!!! 

if it’s not already obvious i’m a slut for e.e. cummings and his work has had such a formative impact on my life and writing so he has his own category sorry i don’t make the rules

bold is for the shit i especially feel in my soul

e.e. cummings

anyone lived in a pretty how town

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in

love is more thicker than forget

i like my body when it is with your

the boys i mean are not refined

somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond

i have found what you are like

may i feel said he

pity this busy monster, manunkind

since feeling is first

if i should sleep with a lady called death

let’s live suddenly without thinking

when serpents bargain for the right to squirm

it may not always be so; and i say

others

caitlyn siehl, a prayer

natasza stark, lovesong: a murder, part i

s.t., on loving an angel of war

buddy wakefield, in landscape

dorianne laux, this close

hone tuwhare, rain

pablo neruda, one hundred love sonnets; xvii

bob schofield, fact #326

seiichi niikuni, rain

natalie wee, least of all

[softwareverywhere-blog]

First published by the legendary Something Else Press in 1967, An Anthology of Concrete Poetry was the first American anthology on the international movement of Concrete poetry. The movement itself began in the early 1950s, in Germany–through Eugen Gomringer, who borrowed the term “concrete” from the art of his mentor, Max Bill–and in Brazil, through the Noigandres group, which included the de Campos brothers and Decio Pignatari. Over the course of the 1960s it exploded across Europe, America and Japan, as other protagonists of the movement emerged, such as Dieter Roth, Öyvind Fahlström, Ernst Jandl, bpNichol, Mary Ellen Solt, Jackson Mac Low, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Bob Cobbing, Dom Sylvester Houédard, Pierre Garnier, Henri Chopin, Brion Gysin and Kitasono Katue. By the late 1960s, poet Jonathan Williams could proclaim: “If there is such a thing as a worldwide movement in the art of poetry, Concrete is it.” The work of the 77 writers collected in this anthology varies greatly in its aims and forms, but all can be said to emphasize the visual dimension of language, manipulating individual letters and minimal semantic units to produce poems that are for contemplating as much as for reading. Emmett Williams, the book’s editor, added explanatory commentary for the poems and biographies of their authors, making this volume–long out of print–the definitive anthology of this movement, which has so influenced artists and writers of subsequent generations.

Writers and artists included: Friedrich Achleitner, Alain Arias-Misson, H. C. Artmann, Ronaldo Azeredo, Stephen Bann, Carlo Belloli, Max Bense, Edgard Braga, Claus Bremer, Augusto de Campos, Haroldo de Campos, Henri Chopin, Carl Friedrich Claus, Bob Cobbing, Paul de Vree, Reinhard Döhl, Torsten Ekbom, Öyvind Fahlström, Carl Fernbach-Flarsheim, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Larry Freifeld, John Furnival, Heinz Gappmayr, Ilse and Pierre Garnier, Matthias Goeritz, Eugen Gomringer, Ludwig Gosewitz, Bohumila Grögerova and Josef Hiršal, José Lino Grünewald, Brion Gysin, Al Hansen, Václav Havel, Helmut Heissenbüttel, Åke Hodell, Dom Sylvester Houédard, Ernst Jandl, Bengt Emil Johnson, Ronald Johnson, Hiro Kamimura, Kitasono Katue, Jiri Kolar, Ferdinand Kriwet, Arrigo Lora-Totino, Jackson Mac Low, Hansjörg Mayer, Cavan McCarthy, Franz Mon, Edwin Morgan, Maurizio Nannucci, bp Nichol, Hans-Jørgen Nielsen, Seiichi Niikuni, Ladislav Novák, Yuksel Pazarkaya, Décio Pignatari, Vlademir Dias Pino, Luiz Angelo Pinto, Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd, Diter Rot, Gerhard Rühm, Aram Saroyan, John J. Sharkey, Edward Lucie Smith, Mary Ellen Solt, Adriano Spatola, Daniel Spoerri, Vagn Steen, Andre Thomkins, Enrique Uribe Valdivielso, Franz Van Der Linde, Franco Verdi, Emmett Williams, Jonathan Williams, Pedro Xisto and Fujitomi Yasuo.

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In ‘Purometeusu no hi プロメテウスの火’ [Prometheus’ Fire], metaphor and metonymy work together even more closely than in the previous poems, encapsulating the story of Prometheus’ gift of fire to human beings. Both the French ciel (‘sky’) and the kanji 火 (hi, ‘fire’) may each have its double meaning as a result of the graphic layout.

Interlingual Encounter in Pierre Garnier and Niikuni Seiichi’s French-Japanese Concrete Poetry

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Niikuni Seiichi. River or Sand-bank, 1966

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Seiichi Niikuni from The «Chicago Review», Volume 19, No. 4, 'Anthology of Concretism', Edited by Eugene Wildman, Chicago, IL, September 1967 (pdf here)

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Visuelle Poesie, Texts by Friedrich W. Heckmanns and Peter Weiermair, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, 1969 [L'Arengario Studio Bibliografico, Gussago (BS)]. Feat. Vincenzo Accame, Friedrich Achleitner, Ronaldo Azeredo, Carlo Belloli, Edgard Braga, Claus Bremer, Augusto de Campos, Haraldo de Campos, Ugo Carrega, Reinhard Döhl, Carl Fernbach-Flarsheim, Luigi Ferro, Jan Hamilton Finlay, Heinz Gappmayr, Pierre Garnier, Jochen Gerz, Eugen Gomringer, Jose Lino Grünewald, Bahumila Grogerova, Josef Hiršal, Dom Sylvester Houédard, Ernst Jandl, Kitasono Katue, Jiří Kolář, Franz Mon, Ito Motoyuki, Maurizio Nannucci, bpNichol, Seiichi Niikuni, Ladislav Novák, Décio Pignatari, Dieter Rot(h), Gerard Rühm, Aram Saroyan, Siegfried J. Schmidt, Adriano Spatola, Shohachiro Takahashi, Arrigo Lora Totino, Timm Ulrichs, Franco Verdi, Rolf Wezel, Emmett Williams, Pedro Xisto https://www.instagram.com/p/CDXJlq9IAw-/?igshid=v7uoh7afz0y5

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»prisoner« by seiichi niikuni (+)

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