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Alexander Booth. Poetry. Translation (Mayröcker, Kluge, Penna, Wittgenstein et al). Analog collage. Existential Analysis / Logotherapy. Epigrams unto emptiness. Tread the path with care. wordkunst@gmail.com / IG: @wordkunst

Psychedelic color photo of daylight statued fountain nymphs & steeds
London blue plaque : Peckings Records / Helped introduce reggae to the UK & Europe / Pioneering record label & shop established here in 1974 by George 'Peckings' Price (1927-1994)
Analog collage of torn color newsprint : a faded woman smiling a pink gummed set of teeth from the top of her head, a blue thumb, a wing
Snapshot of a black-clad speed skeleton holding a microphone, standing in front of a burning oil drum whilst someone behind that is crouched on the ground by a pile of indiscernible somethings. Drab sky. The comment beneath says, "Is this in A minor?"
Analog postcard collage of torn & cut b/w + color newsprint images (corkscrews, man in black tie, the words "Dieses Jahr" [this year], a square of yellow, a vertical block of red & white bars)
Color film poster -- white bearded white haired white man blowing a horn with his eyes shut -- for Brötzmann, a film by René Jeuckens, Thomas Mau & Grischa Windus
Color photograph of person reflected in 5 different sized metallic convex mirrors mounted on a yellow-green wall in what appears to be a gallery
What Lies Ahead & other essays, by Caroline Clark, published by Black Herald Press ... photographed on a rock on the street in warm evening light
Light blue risograph of collaged illustration of Renaissance hand / torso / head perhaps on light shade of gold on light brown paper
Sliver of analog postcard collage on a wooden ground : color newsprint Reubensesque face + a spiraling cell like beads, b/w newsprint arm & hand, a red-&-black triangle on its side
Still frame from Ulrike Ottinger's 1979 film "Bildnis einer Trinkerin" (Ticket of No Return) : beneath a leaden sky in a desolate field ringed by distant prefab buildings a Fellini-esque tableau of a tightrope walker being watched by a woman in black, a small figure, a figure in white holding pigs, and three grey-clad figures with their backs to the viewer in a chair in the foreground https://www.ulrikeottinger.com/de/filmdetails/ticket-of-no-return
Analog postcard collage vertical torn scraps of white fraktur script on black "entzü--" & "leicht" covered by vertical scrap of brown paper bag with red script "esst obst!" [Eat fruit!] in the upper left of the form created by them an inverted b/w newsprint image of a suited shoulder
b/w cover photo of a bicycle leaning against a stone wall a dark door & marquee upon which Theater in der Garage is written & in red cursive script "Theater anders" [a different kind of theatre] / Cornelia Julius
Cover : "Visions & Apparitions / Ladislav Klíma" in blue on red-and-black background featuring a headless torso exploding dissolving into mist & smoke
Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life & Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey by Mark Dery, published by William Collins (b/w photo of an unsmiling white-bearded & beringed Edward Gorey wrapped in his fur coat, peeing over his reading glasses straight into the lens)
analog postcard collage of an old b/w headshot covered by overlapping blocks of text reading "klar" + "text" with a slim vertical bar of paper running through their center
The Masochist by Katja Perat, translated by Michael Biggins, published by Istros Books
color newsprint analog postcard collage of silver letters on red + violet letters on white in an abstract vertical jumble with the word "poezije" in black script itself running vertically upwards overtop
color photo of a spiral(ing) staircase spiraling upwards towards a point of light
color photo of the wooden bookshelves of an antiquarian bookshop literally filled to the ceiling, two paintings hanging to the right, on the left a larger b/w photograph of the Italian poet Umberto Saba (1883-1957) mid-stride
color wall reproduction of first issue of Slovenian avant-garde journal TANK (1927-1928) [black script reads "tank no. 1 1/2 / ljubljana s.h.s. / lioubliana s.c.s" on red & orange constructivist-like background of abstract shapes]
b/w (possible linotype) portrait of Expressionist "ghost" Ferdinand Hardekopf (1876-1954) by Expressionist poet John Höxter (1884-1938)
b/w photograph of the poet, seated outdoors somewhere, in a rumpled button shirt & dark sports jacket looking just to the right of the lens looking at least 15 years older & he's certainly been on the other side of the veil (photo by Erin Seals)
Total Fears: Selected Letters to Dubenka, by Bohumil Hrabal, translated by James Noughton & published by Twisted Spoon Press (yellowish abstract cover image like scarred skin by Vladimír Boudník)
The Tender Barbarian by Bohumil Hrabal, translated by Jed Slast & published by Twisted Spoon Press (explosionalist artwork by Vladimír Budník)
Cover of Posthumous Keats, by Stanley Plumly (featuring a reproduction of Keats' death mask)
Grave of German artist Käthe Kollwitz & family. Sunny day, burgundy colored Japanese maple to the left of the frame, dark headstone surrounded by thuja, mulched ground
b/w newsprint analog postcard collage of torn letters + text of various font & size arranged in an abstract shape
b/w newsprint analog postcard collage of various fonts & sizes of torn letters & print in bottom righthand corner of plane
Carnation by Alexander Booth (2025), displayed with a mini binder clip against a wooden background
The Absinthe Forger by Evan Rail, published by Melville House
b/w photograph of a man wearing tortoise shell glasses, a duffel coat, a dark scarf & flat cap, looking off to the side, before a tree, a feeling of snow
Photo of public library card from city of Berlin, Germany, three shades of green on a green background
Black ink drawing of overlapping squares, some colored grey with a felt-tip pen
blue + grey newsprint analog postcard collage of abstracted building forms & windows wedged vertical + horizontal
b/w + color newsprint analog postcard collage with the word "type" in horizontal the word "script" in vertical an arrow a green flicker shadow
"I, Bruno Schulz", Krzysztof Bednarski, 1982, mixed media [b/w illustration of Polish writer Bruno Schulz staring out from an old battered suitcase, illuminated by a dangling lightbulb]
Day comes down & the cold. Pale prefab geologies. The way is Long
Alexander Booth. Carnation. 2025. (Red cover, black script, abstract monotype within a black frame)
Edvard Munch: Stanislaw Przybyszewski, 1894. Foto copyright Munchmuseet. (The writer's pale, angular, goateed head floating above two crossed bones against a background like a water-damaged wall)
b/w sticker on a Roman pole : Fellini (white script on black) / Pasolini (black script on white)
Analog postcard collage lemon yellow triangle arising from the bottom with a white rectangle of 4 inverted letters, blood-red rectangle of sandpaper to the top right, ruddied entrance ticket to the left, a half-moon of a poststamp
Two b/w Super 8 film stills of blooms & sky 'I think time stands quite still / and I move around in it // sometimes slowly / and sometimes at a furious rate' (Marlen Haushofer, trans, Shaun Whiteside)
Ithell Colquhoun : Genius of the Fern Loved Gully by Amy Hale, published by Strange Attractor Press
Rainy blurry headlights streetlights night-time asphalt noir 1920s Berlin
b/w + color newsprint analog postcard collage a shiver of words slivered red a hand a question mark
b/w + color newsprint analog postcard collage of a dangling hand coming from a sleeve of faded blurry black-and-white & word
Seeing red : two chairs three chairs seating a rock trees snow
Alexander Booth. Carnation.
b/w + color newsprint non-figurative analog postcard collage two yellow rectangular bars one yellow square intersecting three b/w triangular bars one black-dotted triangle all edging into the plane
b/w newsprint jumble of German words at the center of a hand drawn square one black bar
Alexander und Margarete Mitscherlich. Die Unfähigkeit zu trauern.
In Finnish we don't say, "He's not thinking straight." We say "sillä ei ole kaikki muumit laaksossa". He/she doesn't have all the Moomins in the valley.
b/w newsprint analog postcard collage : suit-and-tied figure with a navel or maybe a flower for a head holding its hands above what appears to be a woman having a tooth removed
Early Music Ensemble of Augsburg: Et in Terra Pax - Geistliche Musik des Mittelalters
b/w newsprint analog postcard collage of various cuts of text + darker blocks of non-descript images covered with golden hand-drawn & colored circles & dots
Analog postcard collage with b/w newsprint cut of the lower half of a man's face suit & tie with a blurred piece of print where an eye mught go against a background of gold hand-colored colored dots
Photo of b/w photocopied Hex Enduction Quarterly zine No. 20 Dec 2025 (cover image a blurred streetscene moving car trees power lines low-rise apartment buildings)
A pale pinkish-red neon sign that says Schleusenkrug (Lock Tankard) atop a 60s-esque single-storey building in a scene of snow a grey day bare trees
Carnation by Alexander Booth. 2025. Limited edition of 150 copies.