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Joseph Robertson, Casavaria's founder and director, is a poet, writer, editor and photographer. He is editor-in-chief of CafeSentido.com —the news, politics, art, culture and exhibits project— and its primary writer-reporter. He is also the creator and director of TheHotSpring.com, an online forum dedicated to developing paradigm-shift technological innovations and crafting complex policy proposals for economic and political crises.

He writes in English and Spanish (as well as explorations in other languages), has taught a humanities seminar at Villanova University, where he completed his MA in Spanish Language and Literature, and is a long-time student of philosophy. Joseph Robertson is acknowledged by Lester Brown, President of the Earth Policy Institute (EPI), in the preface to the book Plan B, for his translations of EPI ecology reports, into Spanish.

BOOK DESIGN
ART & DESIGN
GREEN ECONOMICS
NEW MEDIA THEORY

His first book in print is Breves penumbras, a collection of his poetry in original Spanish. His work is devoted to expanding the expressive quality of the human experience, and to cultivating interest in the meaningful complexities which often go without comment or comprehension, but which are largely responsible for all forms of human dignity.

His second book is also a collection of poetry in Spanish, Otro posible desvío de lo esperado, and was presented to the public in Barcelona, Spain, in April 2007. His third collection of poetry is also nearing its final editorial stages and will be entitled Jaguar y cascada.

His first published book in English is scheduled for early 2009, a collection of essays on aesthetics and social philosophy, entitled Cave Painting: aesthetics and the making of meaning. Later in 2009, expect the publication of Ptarmigan: a novel in verse miniatures.

And as a complementary work to Casavaria's first blog site and nascent literary workshop, Elindulnék (where much of his works in progress can be explored), he is preparing a bilingual edition of diary extracts, short essays and social commentary, entitled Numbering Sands, to be published in 2010, and intended as the beginning of an ongoing work which will include periodic expansions and new volumes.

For images from the repertoire of his book design work, please go to Joseph Robertson's Book Design Gallery.

BOOKS

BREVES PENUMBRAS
Poesía en castellano, diciembre 2002
  OTRO POSIBLE DESVÍO DE LO ESPERADO
Poesía en castellano, sept. 2008
  JAGUAR Y CASCADA
Poesía en castellano, inv. 2009
         
CAVE PAINTING: AESTHETICS & MEANING
Essays, currently online only
PTARMIGAN
A novel in verse miniatures, in progress
NUMBERING SANDS
Bilingual edition (Eng-Esp) of short essays, a journey

POETRY

FICTION

Ptarmigan
» FAULTLINES ARE LIFEGIVERS :: LA PIETÀ :: BREATHING MOON, OVER WATER :: TRAVELING, WITHOUT TIME :: TO DO WHAT YOU'RE MOVED TO

ESSAY

Cave Painting: essays on what appears to be
The Cave Painting series is comprised of essays that examine what appears to be true in our shared world, what role we play in constructing such appearances, and the ways in which we interact with those perceived truths.

:: Ecological Humanism (CP)
:: Writing & Naming: the Medicine of Acquiring Knowledge (CP)
:: The Story: a condensed poetics

TRAVEL

:: Xampanyería: a Spanish Memoir
:: Crafting Invisible Fires: Scenes of London & Bristol
:: Abanico: Philippine Impressions

OBRA EN ESPAÑOL

POESÍAS

BREVES PENUMBRAS

FICCIÓN

VIAJES

:: Oxígeno y ciprés: junio en España

ENSAYO

:: Carta sobre la poética versátil, o artesanal
:: El quipu lírico de Jorge Teillier

Original Works & Explorations in Five More Languages:
Català, Français, Italiano, Português, Svenska

VISUAL ART & PHOTOGRAPHY

View "Delicate Vessels" Gallery   View "Delicate Vessels" Gallery
Contraluz, 1996-2006 Delicate Vessels, 1995-2003

View "Aspirations" Gallery   View "Azure" Gallery
The Aspirations of Memory, 1995-2001 A Season of Azure, June 2001

WRITING & NAMING: the medicine of acquiring knowledge
Joseph Robertson

Language is that point of contact in the abstract, that plane where the intellectual life within us is enabled to assert itself as part of the overall experience of living. Language is that plane where the individual self is allowed repeated attempts at manifestation. What takes place in the process of writing, in the spilling of ink or the posting of digital characters, the slip toward defining a landscape, however brief, is the sanctification of an individual, and by extension of the human condition as such...

Not every person is a writer, by trade, nor should they be, but there is something about the act of writing that serves the writing individual as if it were a medicine for selfhood, a healing venture into clean waters. Especially so when its intent is to be expressive of secret regions of the mind or to lay out new experimental vessels for such expression. [Keep reading...]

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Author Selections
Cave Painting: essays on the making of meaning
Ecological Humanism
The Silt-Quarry
Meaning Accumulates
The Presumed World
Holy Vessels & an Invitation
THE ILLUSION OF THE DEFINITE & INVASIVE 'OTHER'
CLEAN WATER SCARCITY AFFECTS 1 BILLION
En la periferia del ser
Remota y nubarrón
Retrato de Li Po con hoja seca

Casavaria celebra el cuarto centenario de la novela El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha, con una edición de la primera parte (primavera 2005) y otra de la segunda parte (primavera 2006)...

LIBROS
BREVES PENUMBRAS OTRO POSIBLE DESVÍO DE LO ESPERADO
JAGUAR Y CASCADA NUMBERING SANDS (BIL.)
CAVE PAINTING PTARMIGAN (A NOVEL)
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CONTRALUZ
Joseph Robertson Art Pages
Book of photos in halftone sepia-tinged black and white. An exploration of contrast and meaning in the textures of the everyday.



JOSEPH ROBERTSON
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Vol. 3, No. 1. :: FERTILITY
What role does the idea of fertility play in our cultural legacy, in our personal relationships, in our political culture, our agricultural trials, the poetry of our private sphere? In this edition, Silva explores, indirectly, through literature, metaphor and science, the value inherent in fertility, as a phenomenon of experience and a root of life...
Vol. 2, No. 2. :: THIRST & BRINE
Poetry on the subject of appetite and longing, the balance of what exists and what is desired, an hommage to the poet Pablo Neruda, featured poets of Chile and analysis of the work of Jorge Teillier, poet of limits and the hearth...