A Lesson in Intimate Geography

February 27
Saturday
4:00 pm
1011 Washington Avenue S.
Target Performance Hall
Minnesota Center for Book Arts


Julie Baugnet and Felip Costaglioli will present their collaborative work at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts. Baugnet, a painter has been collaborating with the poet Felip Costaglioli for over 4 years. Together they have created a collection of painted poems using the book format. Last year they presented their work “King of Grass.” In this afternoon reading they will present 6 new painted books and elaborate on their collaborative spirit.

A Simple Man: Testament of a Poet (cambria)

An excerpt:
This is a land, an opened land, where shy lovers kiss with furious mouths and for their pleasure cook for their grandmothers, their mothers and sisters. A land where valleys fill up shimmer and translucent fold up and then slowly vanish to reappear, only clearer and stronger.




ODE TO THE UNDYING SUMMERS

I wish
to celebrate
So many so many of them

oh beautiful and past summers

and still wish
to embrace

how vibrant
this one is

although softly dying
and sing

the many ones with you to come

But maybe should I decide
once once and for all

that our summers never die

No they make us

—since each year with them we are reborn—

yes
they make us a little eternal.

—Felip Costaglioli