Herbert Pföstl
@herbert-pfostl.bsky.social
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Fields for plant, stone, and animal forms. Emblem banners of departing lands.
Painting, reading, looking at things.
about 1 month ago
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Happy Holidays.
2 months ago
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Friends, My best books of 2025 for the New Museum in New York are now up and available. To read the reviews:
www.newmuseumstore.org/collections/...
My best of at DAP:
www.artbook.com/blog-ex-libr...
A few of my favorites at Point Reyes Books:
ptreyesbooks.com/herberts-fav...
2 months ago
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k + h ∞ h + k
4 months ago
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reposted by
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Epidote Press
over 8 years ago
Llewelyn Powys on the Lark and his dusky darling, from the ever astonishing Earth Memories, published by @LittleToller
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Go out to the roses and the bees and the dove-cots. But especially to the songbirds, that you may learn from them how to sing! Singing is for the convalescent; the healthy can speak. Nietzsche : Zarathustra
4 months ago
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Accessible but veiled.
5 months ago
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Letter to a friend.
6 months ago
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Be glad: the house is mined, it will fall. - Robinson Jeffers The Broken Balance
7 months ago
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My painting "No Omen but Awe" is on view at the permanent collection gallery at the Bolinas Museum. Come west & stop by.
7 months ago
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Very few get the biographer they deserve—R. Crumb got lucky. Dan Nadel's wonderfully candid chronicle does not recoil, moralize, or whitewash. It's my book of the month at the New Museum.
@newmuseum.bsky.social
. Full review here:
www.newmuseum.org/articles/boo...
8 months ago
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Edward Gorey, who painted his toenails black on the day Gertrude Stein died.
8 months ago
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"...a handful of dust." || Postcard to a friend.
8 months ago
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And I the apparition, I the spectre. - Whitman
9 months ago
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This was that Earth of which we have heard, made out of Chaos and Old Night. [...] Man was not to be associated with it. – Thoreau, The Maine Woods
9 months ago
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Herbert Pföstl
Epidote Press
9 months ago
If you find yourself in New York City, please stop by Nicelle Beauchene Gallery in Tribeca to see Louise Despont's beautiful solo exhibition—Afterlifes. I'm working on a book with Louise & wrote the exhibition's accompanying text, which can be found here:
nicellebeauchene.com/exhibitions/..
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For k.
10 months ago
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Speech is but broken light upon the depth of the unspoken. - George Eliot
10 months ago
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Yuri Knorozov, who studied Mayan hieroglyphic writing. Why is there no book about him?
10 months ago
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Got myself some birthday presents
@pointreyesbooks.bsky.social
11 months ago
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I want to represent things as they are, or rather as they would be, supposing I did not exist. - Charles Baudelaire, Salon of 1859 To see a landscape as it is when I am not there... - Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace
11 months ago
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Das Fett der Werke wird verfaulen. Übrig bleiben ein paar Sätze. - Canetti
11 months ago
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No counsel is more trustworthy than that which is given upon ships that are in peril. - Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks
11 months ago
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about 1 year ago
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These lies mean that the country wants to die. (Robert Bly, The Teeth Mother Naked At Last, 1970)
about 1 year ago
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László F. Földényi's "The Long Shadow of the Guillotine" arrives in the mail on the same day as Julia Kristeva's "The Severed Head." Coincidence? Elective affinity? An omen?
about 1 year ago
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the things of this world: snake.
about 1 year ago
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"The lesson of these days is the vulgarity of wealth. We know that wealth will vote for the same thing which the worst and meanest of the people vote for," noted Emerson's Journal in 1854.
about 1 year ago
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Herbert Pföstl
about 1 year ago
A boy told me the little jumping spider was “a friend”.
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"Schoenberg archives destroyed in LA fires." †
about 1 year ago
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Departed there and landed here. Carried all my twitters with me––from 2016 until now. May this port prove solid.
about 1 year ago
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Cristina Campo wrote about the "accumulation of time and secrets" in "The Unforgivable," one of my favorite books
@pointreyesbooks.bsky.social
in 2024. Good books are sanctuaries that can be shared.
ptreyesbooks.com/list/best-bo...
ptreyesbooks.com/herberts-fav...
Here's to a wondrous new year.
about 1 year ago
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Osip Mandelstam - Two Poems. Translated by Andrew Davis. Hand set and printed letterpress by The Brother In Elysium. Edition of 175 copies.
thebrotherinelysium.com/shop/osip-ma...
about 1 year ago
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My music is best understood by children and animals––said Stravinsky.
about 1 year ago
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It is a mistake to believe in my presence. - Hugo Ball, Flight Out of Time
over 1 year ago
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Is it true the question mark derives from the shape of the tail of a cat when surprised. Sorry unfair question. - Anne Carson, Wrong Norma
over 1 year ago
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...alles Sieghafte ist völlig unerträglich. - Gottfried Benn, Brief an Oelze
over 1 year ago
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...and they held out as long as they could. For Kirston @epidotepress, these days & all days.
over 1 year ago
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Schigaljow sah so aus , als erwarte er den Untergang der Welt, und dies nicht etwa in unbestimmter Ferne, sondern ganz bestimmt, etwa übermorgen früh, genau 25 Minuten nach 10. - Dostojewski, Die Dämonen
over 1 year ago
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Like Whitman, Chesterton thought that the mere fact of existing is so prodigious that no misfortune should exempt us from a kind of cosmic gratitude. - Jorge Luis Borges / Robert Bresson, Mouchette
over 1 year ago
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America, at times, seems to be the only country to have gone directly from adolescence to senility, without intervention. Noted Paul Metcalf, some time ago.
over 1 year ago
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Looking forward to this one from The Brother In Elysium.
thebrotherinelysium.com/shop/osip-mand…
over 1 year ago
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Schreiben, malen, formen, erbauen und erfinden –– der Hölle zu entrinnen ist das wahre Ziel. - Antonin Artaud
over 1 year ago
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Friends, I have a few last copies of the broadside edition of my text on the immoderately experimental, radiantly rare & radically strange conjuror of future sounds Charles Ives. Letterpress printing & collage work by Jon Beacham of The Brother In Elysium. DM me if interested.
over 1 year ago
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Fragment on Ives. More information here:
herbertpfostl.com/publications#/…
over 1 year ago
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What do answers answer anyway. They fit onto questions like a stocking onto a leg but the blood stains still refuse to evaporate. - Anne Carson, Wrong Norma
over 1 year ago
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Artaud (as "Knife Grinder") in Fritz Lang's 1934 "Liliom.
over 1 year ago
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The last issue of IM LABYRINTH has been published. It includes my painting "no omen but awe" (below) and a text piece as bow to some pictorial wonders of the dead. Relics of light for me––and (maybe) you. Special thanks to Harald Wolf for his curiosity & candor across the years.
over 1 year ago
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Ewiger Traum, daß man etwas nicht macht, sondern daß es entsteht. - Gottfried Benn
over 1 year ago
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Gena Rowlands, RIP
over 1 year ago
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