At a time when the American police seem to have gone hunting for black citizens with painful results, we publish here the poem of the important African-American writer and civil rights activist Maya Angelou, entitled “Still I Rise”. The poem is included in its poetic collection of 1978, that bears the title “And Still I Rise: A Book of Poems”.
During this incomprehensible period, we are accompanied by the “Eleonora” poem of the great Greek surrealist artist Nikos Engonopoulos, which is included in its poetic collection, that bears the timely surreal title “Do Not Distract the Driver”. … And what can we do if “The Driver is Asleep”?
Yambo Ouologuem, originally from Mali, West Africa, was one of the most important writers of the 20th century, although he was wrote only 3 books and a few poems in the French language. While his poetry has not been collected, here’s a representative one, entitled ‘When Black Men’s Teeth Speak Out’.
With the ‘Air-Conditioned Nightmare’ begins yet another fruitful writing period for Henry Miller, having just returned to the US from Europe in 1939 and World War II. Here is given an excerpt from this work, together with the autobiographical documentary ‘The Henry Miller Odyssey’ directed by Robert Snyder.
Pete Montrian was the De Stijl art movement rapporteur, along with Theo van Doesburg. Neoplasticism, as he preferred to call the new movement, led abstract art to new fertile fields. The Horizontal Tree, presented here, belongs to the transitional period before the De Stijl principles were formulated.
The poem titled Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty) of Anne Sexton is included in the Transformations collection, released in 1971 in Boston, USA, by the publishing house Houghton Mifflin Company.
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