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Notes (and quotes) on and by Mieke Unlike Ingeborg Bachmann, who died in Rome, but is not buried in Rome, Uwe Johnson died and is buried in Sheerness. She took this photograph of his grave – a pink granite slab, with only his name carved onto its face – and it sits over Solonga’s desk.Continue reading “‘In the footsteps of Uwe Johnson in the footsteps of Ingeborg Bachmann’”

from People Who Died Alone Mieke was born in 1972 in Nijmegan. When she was three years old she taught herself to read. When she was six, her family moved to Wognun. Mieke was a brilliant student, one, according to a classmate, who sucked up vast amounts of knowledge. On her eighth birthday, she announcedContinue reading “A Prologue”

None yet so true as for to say, eye watch flinch, obey in player sight dispose as other plight; lower by lover offer incident, ahead despite unfair, unvexed by this no marvel revel when intransigent, distraint revealed aright. Censure so few entire, repair to seem exempt donation false, reproof level in view; foray intern ownContinue reading “‘In Note Attended’ by J. H. Prynne”

Notes on Mieke She spends her time mostly alone, and after high school takes up drawing, then photography. She is interested in all those people who we see around us every day who live and die alone. She observes them when she goes outside, sitting in parks on benches, eating at a restaurant, carrying aContinue reading “Mieke (Notes)”

A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, because it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably. – Wittgenstein A Note on Ernst The writing about writing about art becoming art itself, in itself as art, as writing, as notation, as the noting of notesContinue reading “ERNST”

‘He drew a distinction between “the voice of the poem” and “the voice of the poet … an accident of biography … which does not interest me”’ in order ‘to establish relations not personally with the reader, but with the world and its layers of shifted but recognisable usage.’ ‘Although the neurochemistry of the brain,Continue reading “NOTES (with quotes) on J. H. Prynne”

‘THE CONJURING OF “INFORMATION”‘ RUTH WOLF-REHFELDT ‘DEGREES OF REMOVAL, AUTHORITY AND ANONYMITY’ ‘THE TYPEWRITER REPLACES AND REGULATES THE GESTURE OF HANDWRITING AND DRAWING CONCEALING THE IDENTITY OF THE AUTHOR.’ ‘THE MAILBOX ALLOWS THE AUTHOR TO REMAIN ANONYMOUS.’ ‘THE SIGN CONCEALS LIVED EXPERIENCE. SITTING “IN A CAGE.”‘