February 2012
5 posts
From "The Lament Upon the Waters" - John Ashbery
The problem isn’t how to proceed
But it is one of being: whatever this ever was, and whose
It shall be.
To be starting out, just one step
Off the sidewalk, and as such pulled back into the glittering
Snowstorm of stinging tentacles of how that would be worked out
If we ever work it out.
Alive for An Instant
- Kenneth Koch
Alive For An Instant I have a bird in my head and a pig in my stomach And a flower in my genitals and a tiger in my genitals And a lion in my genitals and I am after you but I have a song in my heart And my song is a dove I have man in my hands I have a woman in my shoes I have a landmark decision in my reason I have a death rattle in my nose I have summer in my brain water I...
January 2012
6 posts
“Beauty is difficult.”
– Ezra Pound
Want.
All I want are these boots. Or these heels. Or these flats.
December 2011
13 posts
“You are with
The orange tree, so that its summer produce
Can go back to where...”
– from Spring Day - Jonas Bery.
“I am so glad that Larry Rivers made a
statue of me
and now I hear that my...”
– F. O’Hara, ON RACHMANINOFF’S BIRTHDAY
we all love frank.
“Since each of us was several, there was already quite a crowd.”
– Deleuze & Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus
November 2011
24 posts
Picasso Painting in Light, 1949 - LIFE Magazine →
“St. Paul and All That
Frank O’Hara
Totally abashed and smiling
I walk in...”
– The lineation is all wrong, and I am sorry.
Today, I think, is a good day for Rachmaninoff.
“The change of color is likely and a difference a very little difference is...”
– Gertrude Stein, “A SUBSTANCE IN A CUSHION.”, Tender Buttons, 1914 (p. 3 in ISBN 0-486-29897-3)
Night Song of the Los Angeles Basin BY GARY...
Owl
calls,
pollen dust blows
Swirl of light strokes writhing
knot-tying light paths,
calligraphy of cars.
Los Angeles basin and hill slopes
Checkered with streetways. Floral loops
Of the freeway express and exchange.
Dragons of light in the...
NEW from The Catalonian Review! Issue IX →
“I wrote portraits knowing that each one is themselves inside them and something...”
– Gertrude Stein, Writing and Lectures, 1919-1945
“Art, considered in its highest vocation, is and remains for us a thing of the...”
– Hegel, Aesthetics
Relevant in 1820, relevant now - art outside the pale of history. Somewhere in between - modernism.
The problem of the status of modern over contemporary art demands the general attention of the discipline - whether one believes in postmodernism or not.
“To whom shall I hire myself out?
What beast must I adore?
What holy image is...”
– Rimbaud, A Season in Hell
“the unrecapturable nostalgia for nostalgia
for a life I might have hated, thus...”
– Ode (To Joseph Leseur) On The Arrow That Flieth By Day, Frank O’Hara
Fiction by Michael G. Donkin in The Chicago... →
September 2011
1 post
Marjorie Perloff, abstract art, and abstract... →
August 2011
3 posts
