piero HELICZER Unexhausted Time

piero HELICZER Unexhausted TimePiero Heliczer (193793) was one of the most important and ubiquitous protagonists of the underground of the 1960s and 70s. Born in Italy, Heliczer lived between London, Paris, New York and Amsterdam; a poet, publisher and filmmaker, he took an active part in Andy Warhols Factory, filmed the Velvet Underground, and helped Jack Smith on the production of Flaming Creatures. The founder of the Dead Language Press in Paris in the late 1950s, he published

Dit zinderende debuut voert daarom weg van persoonlijke observaties naar culi­naire oriëntaties en historische sensaties

overgeleverd van generaties terug

or it escapes

In Magical Negro

following the wake of The Interpreter of Desires

In Diepe eb wordt een weg afgelegd

De uitgebreide aantekeningen onthullen in ieder sonnet subtiliteiten en dubbelzinnigheden: de vruchten van tien jaar lezen en vertalen

Rooted in the classical tradition of the Chinese “reversible” poem

this’ll be both criticism and poetry and failing that fall somewhere that seems like in between

Using Alice Notley's 1981 poem 'The Prophet' as an intertextual launchpad

en daarna voert hij ze aan de kraaien

and the daily experience of that world as reflected