Brian Dupont · @BDPNT
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Lavelle Porter · @lavelleporter
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If there are any Whitmaniacs out there, I'm going to be reading in a "Song of Myself" marathon hosted by the Walt Whitman Initiative, Sunday 4 June 2023. Details on the site. (If you click to the YouTube page there's a list of readers and sections.)

waltwhitmaninitiative.org/

#waltwhitman #songofmyself

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Stuart Celarier · @VisualStuart
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These come to me days and nights and go from me again,
But they are not the Me myself.

-- from by

pdx.social/@VisualStuart/10966

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Stuart Celarier · @VisualStuart
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by

The beginning: pdx.social/@VisualStuart/10952

4.1
Trippers and askers surround me,
People I meet, the effect upon me of my early life or the ward and city I live in, or the nation,
The latest dates, discoveries, inventions, societies, authors old and new,
My dinner, dress, associates, looks, compliments, dues,
The real or fancied indifference of some man or woman I love,
[...]

15/

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Brian Dupont · @BDPNT
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The individual panels of
"The Typesetter's Song"

's lifelong practice of revision and reworking resonated with my of excerpted defining the surface structure & , which resonate through the layers of changes. It's safe to say that I might've continued to if it didn't ship.

#triptych #whitman #process #text #colorfield #painting #paint #art #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #abstractart #abstractpainting #textart #colorfieldpaninting #leavesofgrass #songofmyself #book #bookmaker #printer

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Brian Dupont · @BDPNT
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The focus of my practice for nearly 6 months: a commission based on 's . The research into the source brought a new understanding to his approach to writing as a and object ()maker.

"The Typesetter's Song"
125" x 60" (overall, 3 panels)
Oil/ paintstick, wax, and alkyd on aluminum composite panel.

#studio #whitman #leavesofgrass #text #printer #book #art #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #abstractart #abstractpainting #textart #colorfield #colorfieldpaninting #songofmyself #triptych

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Stuart Celarier · @VisualStuart
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by

The beginning: pdx.social/@VisualStuart/10952

3.1
I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end,
But I do not talk of the beginning or the end.

There was never any more inception than there is now,
Nor any more youth or age than there is now,
And will never be any more perfection than there is now,
Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.

Urge and urge and urge,
Always the procreant urge of the world.

10/

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Stuart Celarier · @VisualStuart
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by

The beginning: pdx.social/@VisualStuart/10952

2.1
Houses and rooms are full of perfumes, the shelves are crowded with perfumes,
I breathe the fragrance myself and know it and like it,
The distillation would intoxicate me also, but I shall not let it.

4/

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Stuart Celarier · @VisualStuart
158 followers · 255 posts · Server pdx.social

by

1.1
I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.

1/

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tmccormick · @tmccormick
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Free at last! thank God Almighty, free at last. As the sunbeam from door to desk invites, & wrote:
"Unscrew the locks from the doors!
Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!"
XXIV poets.org/poem/song-myself-xxi

#whitman #songofmyself

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tmccormick · @tmccormick
332 followers · 177 posts · Server social.coop

Free at last! thank God Almighty. As the sunbeam from door to desk invites, and wrote:
"Unscrew the locks from the doors!
Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!
Whoever degrades another degrades me,
And whatever is done or said returns at last to me."
XXIV
poets.org/poem/song-myself-xxi

#whitman #songofmyself

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Stuart Celarier · @VisualStuart
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Unexpected encounter with an old friend. of podcast with a beautiful reading of 's .

Recorded in November 2016.
pca.st/rzUn

#natedimeo #thememorypalace #waltwhitman #songofmyself

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elton_uliana · @elton_uliana
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Anne Stallsmith · @annestallsmith
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Rodin exhibit at High showed me Modernism. I hear Whitman's poetry in the works, especially the bronzes. Stefan Zweig visited Auguste Rodin in 1904.
“His eyes, which at table had been amiably inattentive, now flashed with strange lights, and he seemed to have grown larger and younger. He worked, worked, worked, with the entire passion and force of his heavy body;”— The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig

#highmuseum #rodin #atlanta #songofmyself #thethinker

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Shayla Bree Swift · @ShaylaSwift
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“I celebrate myself, and sing myself.” - Walt Whitman naturally.

Firstly to mark an exciting IRL moment, baby!!!

Them two because there is NEVER a bad time for Whitman!

#waltwhitman #songofmyself

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