Open Windows, Open Doors

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The first New Departures publication since 2007, Open Windows, Open Doors by Vanessa Vie, will be launched early in 2020, sixty years since Michael Horovitz first launched the acclaimed experimental imprint, and its performance-based sibling, Live New Departures.
Open Windows, Open Doors is Vanessa Vie's debut volume of diverse poetic writings, accompanied by a substantial selection of her varied visual art inventions created between 1997 and 2019. Its release early next year extends the quintessential commitment of the New Departures imprint to wonderment, internationalism, and multi-medic cross-pollenation in the arts. This book's title and contents vindicate and respond to the challenge of Lawrence F erlinghetti' s 'Populist Manifesto': "Poets, come out of your closets,/Open your windows, open your doors,/ You have been holed-up too long/in your closet worlds." 

Almost entirely self-taught, as both multi-media artist and poetwriter, as well as singer-songwriter-musician, Vanessa grew up on the coast of Northern Spain, and came to Britain at the end of the last millennium. She decided to stay in Albion for good in 2000, largely inspired by absorbing herself in the visionary art and poetry of William Blake. It soon came naturally to her to converse, and then to write in English, with, as publisher Michael Horovitz puts it: "a relish for the stimulus of adapting to a second language, whilst still retaining the passionate spirits of her inborn duende."
According to William Burroughs: "The techniques of much contemporary writing are 50 years behind those of musicians and painters". "Vanessa Vie's innovations," says Horovitz, "invariably bring the interplay of her poetry with highly original musics and visual art to the fore. Her prolific compositions and performances, solo or in conjunction with others, can amount to a nimbly synthesised dance on two, or sometimes three artistic trapezes at once."
Vanessa Vie has presented Happenings inspired by the poetries of Rumi and Dylan Thomas, as well as devising transformative musical settings for those of William Blake, Emily Dickinson, Federico Garcia Lorca and Horovitz himself.
"Many people have asked me throughout the years why I read and write in English," says Vanessa: "Samuel Beckett began writing in French because he wanted to get away from his mother tongue. Living, reading and speaking in French had bestowed him with a new personality. The English language has bestowed me with a new personality and freed me from my mother tongue. I find its nuances of sound and structure to be a restorative victual for my intellect, imagination and memory."

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Weight 0.290000
ISBN13/Barcode 9780902689275
ISBN10 0902689274
Author Vanessa Vie
Binding Paperback
Date Published 16th January 2020
Pages 128
Publisher New Departures / Poetry Olympics