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Archive for November, 2010
Time and silence November 22, 2010: Speaking of John Cage:
Check Out Some Korean Poems November 22, 2010: Hey, what do you know about Korean poetry? Well, get to learnin'! Brother Anthony, of Taize, has made a large number of his print translations available for free online. While the website isn't exactly a looker, it is usefully formatted so that an exploratory visitor will have no trouble clicking around and exciting the senses. Harriet's always [...]
Transatlantic Conceptualism November 22, 2010: British conceptualists Simon Morris, the editor of Information as Material, and Nick Thurston collectively answer some questions about conceptual writing for ArtInfo. Their answers are clear and create transparent historical linkages between the past and present, which makes this interview a nice intro to the topic. As far as definition [...]
Praise Be to Smith November 22, 2010: Patti Smith's recent National Book Award victory led the Huffington Post's John Lundberg to post a short appreciation of her poetic work. Smith's poetry, according to Lundberg, sidesteps the usual rock-star naivete and plants itself firmly in a tradition stretching from Baudelaire to Ginsberg. However, he also argues that her work moves beyond [...]
Ghost (of Arthur Rimbaud) in the machine November 22, 2010: Next time anyone accuses you otherwise, you can tell them you know exactly what it takes to make a miniature sculptural automaton of Paul Verlaine being visited by absinthe fairies and the Exorcist-worthy ghost of Arthur Rimbaud.
Your epithalamium is showing November 20, 2010: Adam O'Riordan takes Guardian readers on a tour through epithalamia (no x-rays or invasive surgery required.) Though it sounds more like an obscure piece of anatomy you never knew existed until you embarrassingly managed to strain it while mowing the lawn, the epithalamium is "a handsome but disconcertingly formal word meaning simply a poem for a [...]
Visit Maya Angelou’s archive in Harlem, in your slippers November 19, 2010: Maya Angelou and Howard Dodson, executive director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, joined NPR's Michel Martin to discuss the Center's acquisition of Angelou's personal correspondence, documents, and drafts. The papers will be housed at the Schomburg branch of the New York Public Library in Harlem, which also counts the [...]
The “Ritalin” School is Much More Focused November 19, 2010: Ah, well, the “members” of “schools” never really like the names of their “schools,” and I’m sure nobody will like this name either, though it is funny. Gregory Cowles, writing about National Book Award winner Terrance Hayes for the NYTimes blog, suggests that Hayes’ poems are indicative of a new “A.D.D.” school of writing: [...]
“A poem for vipers” by John Wieners November 19, 2010:
iHumument November 19, 2010: There’s an app for everything! Literally! And now there’s even an app for Tom Phillips’ beautiful erasure poem / painting, A Humument, which he’s been working on for the last much of his life. The work consists of a variety of pop and abstract reworkings of the pages of the novel A Human Document by Victorian author William Hurrell [...]