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Learn how to use a book

Medieval helpdesk. The original is in Norwegian. It’s written by Knut Nærum and performed by Øystein Bache and Rune Gokstad. It’s a video about how to use a book in the Middle Ages, making fun of pc users and their foolish questions!

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All About Walt Whitman: Poetic Seeds In The Kosmos

I have created this page to share my thoughts and writings on Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. I have been studying and translating Whitman’s works into Portuguese for more than 20 years now. So, everything I have written about the American bard is on the web (check my Ph.D. dissertation in the categories for my translation theory and practice; and read the translated poems in Portuguese at Poesia de Whitman.

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AVATAR: a tale on the destruction of an animist race

Here are two passages from Alfred Lambremont Webre article on AVATAR, James Cameron new movie (by permission):

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Alfred Webre: Exopolitics, life on Mars and much more!

Alfred Webre, J. D., M. Ed., speaks, in an interview to Lee Patrick Hanks, about Exopolitics, the political science of outer space, ET races, NASA photos of Mars showing evidence of life and the 1953 CIA rule of no public discourse on extraterrestrial issues.

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Leaves of Grass translated into Portuguese

Dear readers,

I have finally decided to publish my translation of Leaves of Grass into Portuguese on the Internet.

Therefore, I have created a blog called Poesia de Whitman (Whitman’s Poetry), where I have been posting the poems in the order that they appear in the Deathbed edition of Leaves of Grass.

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Extensive materials by Ezra Pound

Dear readers,

there is a great site called UbuWeb, which is about Sound Poetry.

It has endless recordings covering all 20th century and more.

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Video of Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking

Here is a video of Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking, by the American Bard. Another great homage to our beloved Whitman (It has two parts; part 2 will appear at the end of part 1).

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Even Hugo Chavez loves Whitman!

This is amazing.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez likes poetry, and loves Whitman. He himself said that. Watch this: