The ultimate luxury in our increasingly gregarious world, the thing more and more refused to each other, is being alone. That is why we need to have delivered to a small local hotel the complete works of Balzac, then announce to everyone our departure on a trip, severing all links and making ourselves unavailable for a few days. […]
Art of Traveling (a text of Dany Laferrière translated by Vadim Bystritski) — Before and After Francis Ponge
Blaise Cendrars: A Poet for the Twenty-First Century — Hyperallergic
Cendrars was, beyond all questions, the pioneer of poetic modernism.
via Blaise Cendrars: A Poet for the Twenty-First Century — Hyperallergic
Street Notes (Bangkok): A Perecian List
Sois
Narrow Lanes
Wide Boulevards
Freeways
Shanties
High Rise/Skyscrapers
Traditional Shop Fronts with Iron Lattice Gates and Heavy Scissor Action Doors
The New Grafted onto The Old …
– Marcus D. Niski, Street Notes, Bangkok, 2015.
Langston Hughes’ I Wonder As I Wander: Reveries of an Itinerant Poet — Carra Lucia Books
Langston Hughes’ autobiography from the years 1931 through New Year’s Day 1938 covers his early years as a professional writer during the Great Depression, in which he travels extensively and observes practices and politics as well as the status of black people throughout the world.
“Most of my life from childhood on has been spent moving, traveling, changing places, knowing people in one school, in one town or in one group, or on one ship a little while, but soon never seeing most of them again,” Langston Hughes writes …
via Hughes’ I Wonder As I Wander: Reveries of an Itinerant Poet — Carra Lucia Books
Naked Cities Journal 