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Douglas Messerli

Douglas Messerli is an American writer, professor, and publisher based in Los Angeles. In 1976, he started Sun & Moon, a magazine of art and literature, which became Sun & Moon press, and later Green Integer press. He has taught at Temple University in Philadelphia, and Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles.

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Puzzling Out the Gap Between Communication and Meaning

by Douglas Messerli March 21, 2020March 22, 2020

Sid Gold’s poems address our failure to hear what others are saying.

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When Gordon Parks Photographed the Life of a Brazilian Boy and Sparked Debate

by Douglas Messerli August 17, 2019August 23, 2019

Published in Life Magazine, the images of the sick and impoverished twelve-year-old Flávio da Silva prompted an outpouring of letters and offers of financial assistance.

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David Kinloch’s Poetry Explores Scottish and Biblical Lore

by Douglas Messerli June 30, 2019June 28, 2019

Kinloch seeks out a Scots “Orpheus” figure who is a merchant, a troubadour, and a juggler.

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Vasily Kandinsky’s Poems

by Douglas Messerli February 3, 2019March 7, 2019

Evocations of color dominate these ruminative prose poems.

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Charles Bernstein’s Poems Rethink Language

by Douglas Messerli December 9, 2018December 7, 2018

Bernstein often transforms accessible language into a visual puzzle.

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When “Outliers” and “Outsiders” Are No Longer Useful Categories in Art

by Douglas Messerli December 5, 2018December 6, 2018

Inherent in the show Outliers and American Vanguard Art is a kind of subtle hierarchy among artists, even if the curator has tried to delimit its force.

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Ranjit Hoskote’s Poems Visit a Kingdom of Shadows

by Douglas Messerli November 11, 2018November 9, 2018

Hoskote’s poems describe a landscape of doubt and loss.

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The Science and Pleasures of How We See

by Douglas Messerli July 27, 2018July 27, 2018

In looking through 3D vision, we are able to turn flat surfaces into the way we daily see the world, and there is a kind a miracle, so it appears, in that very act.

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Ted Greenwald’s Poems Chart Our Connections to the Earth

by Douglas Messerli June 17, 2018June 15, 2018

Greenwald combines a Wordsworthian sense of nature with cartoon-like characters.

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Néstor Perlongher Conjures the Disappeared and the Dead

by Douglas Messerli May 6, 2018May 4, 2018

Perlongher evokes Argentina, its people, and their resistance in the face of violent dictatorship.

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The Complex and Passionate Poems of Joseph Ceravolo

by Douglas Messerli April 8, 2018April 8, 2018

Ceravolo worked for most of his life as a civil engineer and brought an outsider sensibility to his poetics.

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The Reluctant Surrealist

by Douglas Messerli February 4, 2018February 2, 2018

Guy R. Beining’s poems appear disjunctive but are in fact carefully constructed in ways that call to mind André Breton, Luis Buñuel, and Paul Delvaux.

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