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Poetry in The Garden with Adrian Pic
Water, waters…
everything is welcome in the universe of water
everything becomes depersonalized
all contradictions dissolve
only oil remains alien
form is the great enemy of water
equalizing and standardizing waters
advancing toward marine unity
mass
the sea: the consumption
I went into the garden to relax by reading poems from a 2001 poetry magazine I had at home. It's called La alegria de los naufragios (The Joy of the Shipwrecked), published in Madrid.
By chance, I ran into a Romanian-born author, a poet-lawyer, whom I didn't know: Adrian Pic, a painter, art theorist, and poet who settled in Barcelona after fleeing interwar Romania to escape anti-semitic, fascist, and then pseudo-communist persecution.
He lived for a time in Paris and was friends with Brâncuşi and other surviving migrant intellectuals. He wrote poetry and essays in French, then moved to Barcelona, guided by Pau Casals, a musician friend, to pursue the same approach: art theory, poetry, abstract painting, and minimalism.
Pic managed to be a minimalist, like many others, until his art met AI, to make a technological joke. Minimalism in writing, the abstraction of language allows the writer to change the phrasing and challenge grammatical rigidity. There is an entire associated theory and poetic interwar manifesto, which I´m expecting the artificial intelligence to get, and not change the small letter to an upper case letter, when the content of the text is minimalist flow.
I used to do book proofreading for Dacia Publishing House, with Romanian, specialized in poetry, and I´m insisting that the text remains as the author intended it to be. The form is a part of the manifesto. The poet has total power and control over the esthetics of the writing, its own style, and can challenge as might please the formal language. Therefore, changing a poetic text that starts with small letters into upper case letters, in the obsession of being grammatically correct, is absolutely unacceptable in universal poetry, and considered rigid thinking, opposite to what art implies.
Poetry and sound are connected, and Adrian Pic had a vivid interest in music. The influence of Mediterranean culture and sound stands out in his works. He wrote "L'univers sonore" (The Universe of Sound) in 1955 and collaborated with Josep Mestres Quadreny, who composed music based on Pic's minimalist painting.
The art and literature of the interwar and postwar periods were an international effort, a collaboration among survivors, aimed at overcoming the trauma caused by conflicts and genocide.
Survivors from around the world united in a common rhythm. What is happening today was never meant to happen again.
Poetic language is not optional. It is the most complex version of understanding and creation. By understanding the emotions of others and being able to express our own, we become stronger, more united, and more effective because we no longer struggle in vain.
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By Cap de MeteoritWater, waters…
everything is welcome in the universe of water
everything becomes depersonalized
all contradictions dissolve
only oil remains alien
form is the great enemy of water
equalizing and standardizing waters
advancing toward marine unity
mass
the sea: the consumption
I went into the garden to relax by reading poems from a 2001 poetry magazine I had at home. It's called La alegria de los naufragios (The Joy of the Shipwrecked), published in Madrid.
By chance, I ran into a Romanian-born author, a poet-lawyer, whom I didn't know: Adrian Pic, a painter, art theorist, and poet who settled in Barcelona after fleeing interwar Romania to escape anti-semitic, fascist, and then pseudo-communist persecution.
He lived for a time in Paris and was friends with Brâncuşi and other surviving migrant intellectuals. He wrote poetry and essays in French, then moved to Barcelona, guided by Pau Casals, a musician friend, to pursue the same approach: art theory, poetry, abstract painting, and minimalism.
Pic managed to be a minimalist, like many others, until his art met AI, to make a technological joke. Minimalism in writing, the abstraction of language allows the writer to change the phrasing and challenge grammatical rigidity. There is an entire associated theory and poetic interwar manifesto, which I´m expecting the artificial intelligence to get, and not change the small letter to an upper case letter, when the content of the text is minimalist flow.
I used to do book proofreading for Dacia Publishing House, with Romanian, specialized in poetry, and I´m insisting that the text remains as the author intended it to be. The form is a part of the manifesto. The poet has total power and control over the esthetics of the writing, its own style, and can challenge as might please the formal language. Therefore, changing a poetic text that starts with small letters into upper case letters, in the obsession of being grammatically correct, is absolutely unacceptable in universal poetry, and considered rigid thinking, opposite to what art implies.
Poetry and sound are connected, and Adrian Pic had a vivid interest in music. The influence of Mediterranean culture and sound stands out in his works. He wrote "L'univers sonore" (The Universe of Sound) in 1955 and collaborated with Josep Mestres Quadreny, who composed music based on Pic's minimalist painting.
The art and literature of the interwar and postwar periods were an international effort, a collaboration among survivors, aimed at overcoming the trauma caused by conflicts and genocide.
Survivors from around the world united in a common rhythm. What is happening today was never meant to happen again.
Poetic language is not optional. It is the most complex version of understanding and creation. By understanding the emotions of others and being able to express our own, we become stronger, more united, and more effective because we no longer struggle in vain.