Poetry meets River Bike Path in Portugal
February 22nd, 2010 § 7 Comments
Poetry along the Rio Tejo em Lisboa - photo from vidasimples.abril.com.br
Check out Lisbon’s poetry installation along their bike path paralleling the Tagus River. The poem is The Keeper of Sheep by Fernando Pessoa. (Somewhat gratuituous plug: Pessoa is a poet whom I learned about via his cameo in the excellent story A Trip to Lisbon in one of my favorite comic book series: the wonderful Monsieur Jean stories by Dupuy and Berberian.)
How about something like this locally, featuring the Los Angeles River poetry of Lewis MacAdams or Gary Snyder? There was a temporary installation a bit like this during one of the Arroyo Arts Collective‘s river installation shows – which featured a similar art installation with a quote from the Olmsted-Bartholomew plan – painted along the river path in Elysian Valley.
For photos, video and story, read the article here at Copenhagenize. Recommended video below:
(Via Curitiba Cycle Chic via Copenhagenize via L.A. Streetsblog)
Brilliant, I love it! And thanks for the poetry lead.
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That was much easier than I expected! I was trying to paste in the embed code – which doesn’t work. Thanks!
(Entry updated 2/23 to feature embedded video)
Here’s an image of the art installation at the L.A. River way back in 2000:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/recovering_auto_enthusiast/2586588927/in/photostream/
A great idea – thanks for sharing. Would like to do this in NYC.
I found more coverage of this path – and this article has a translation of the poetry:
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/02/portugals-new-bike-paths-are-filled-with-poetry-video.php
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