October 19, 2009 • 12:08 pm
via Connections, Disconnections – THE GIG.
From Nate Chinen’s blog, THE GIG, a nice post on free jazz poet Steve Dalachinsky, who collaborated on a new book with photographer Jacques Besceglia called Reaching into the Unknown 1964-2009, printed by the excellent Rogue Art label. Dalachinsky is the de facto resident poet in the downtown NYC free jazz/improv community, a sort of successor to Amiri Baraka.
Dalachinsky wrote a poem for each set of Evan Parker’s residency at The Stone, two of which are reproduced in full in Nate Chinen’s post.
here the boat’s let loose down stream
& thru the rapids – then free falls o’er the falls
the top the peakless o’er it’s light & lamp
& end the plunge as it prevails
its cohesion amongst a spillage of dots.
Filed under: Books, Live, Poetry , Evan Parker, Jacques Besceglia, Nate Chinen, Steve Dalachinsky
February 28, 2009 • 11:01 pm
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From today’s New York Times, a rethink coming on Cheever. I loved Blake Bailey’s Yates biog, and I love Cheever. I have been reading the journals (slowly). Good piece on a brilliant writer. From the journals, sparkling sentences like this one:
The sky is mixed, but there is some blue, and the motion of skating, and the lightness and coldness of the air involve quite clearly for me a beauty — a moral beauty. By this I mean that it corrects the measure and nature of my thinking. Space, perhaps, is what I mean, but there is the moral beauty of light, velocity and environment.
Filed under: Books , John Cheever
February 2, 2009 • 11:57 am
Joan Didion and family from the back jacket of her book, The Year of Magical Thinking. One of my favorite writers, I just started reading it last night, have been saving this one.
Filed under: Books , Joan Didion
January 27, 2009 • 2:59 pm
Flickr: Frank O’Hara. Of course there’s a Frank O’Hara Flickr Group, why hadn’t I looked before?
Filed under: Books , Frank O'Hara
January 16, 2009 • 10:42 am
Possibly my favorite novel ever, and all over the place these days thanks to Kate Winslet!
The 26th Story: Sentences That Stick: Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates.
Have you ever had a sentence from a novel reverberate in your head days after you finished it? In Yates’ novel Revolutionary Road, Mrs. Helen Givings, the meddling Realtor who sold April and Frank Wheeler their suburban home, learns over the course of a phone call that the Wheelers are, in fact, not going to sell their house and leave the community:
“When she put the receiver back it was as if she were returning a rare and exquisite jewel to its velvet case.”
Filed under: Books , Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates
