Gertrude Stein: A Study of the Short Fiction (Twayne's Studies in Short Fiction)
Silliman's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
She was the youngest winner ever of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and the first one born in the 20 th century. Just 24, it wasn’t even her first book, coming seven years after The House of Silk. He was older and more established, holding the post that is now called Poet Laureate of the United States. Not only were they husband & wife, but she was also the great-great granddaughter of Percy...
Exoskeleton (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
[Here's my response to Barbra Jane Reyes blog entry on the Harriet Blog (it gets me every time!) about reviewing books in translation:] Hi Barbra Jane and Co, Here's my advice: You review books of poetry in translation in a similar way you review other books of poetry: You try to figure out what's going on, what makes the poems tick, what they are concerned with, how they operate. You want to acknowledge...
Uncle David (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
I do not differentiates between The surrealism and the objective Strategies of the imagism And I will not say that other creatures Are just objects to be played with I define what my soul clarified With the instruction of what I know Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein The tender buttons has found their rhymes. In the rain a petal stains the wind In the wind the rain sings the associations...
<HTMLGIANT> (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
When Picasso tried his hand at poetry, Gertrude Stein was livid! She said something like, “Things belong to people, and writing belongs to me.” Do you share this proprietary feeling about writing, or anything else you do or like? What belongs to you and not your friends/family? If you say the Simpsons or Bob Dylan [...]
Wilson's Blogmanac (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
1919 Sylvia Beach opened Shakespeare and Company, the first combination English-language book shop and lending library in Paris. Beach befriended many of the world's writers, particularly in the 1920s and '30s, when her shop was a gathering place for expatriate writers and French authors pursuing new found interest in US literature. She also published the first edition of James Joyce 's Ulysses . The...
dbqp: visualizing poetics (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
As I like to say, I’ll go a long way for poetry, so after work yesterday I drove a little more than an hour to Bard College, in Annandale-on-Hudson to hear Rachel Blau DuPlessis give a reading. I don’t normally pay attention to the readings taking place at Bard, but our friend Anne Gorrick had given Nancy and me a few days’ forewarning, so I was able to make it—not Nancy, however....
Jezebel (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
In New York City there are only five statues of real women: Joan of Arc, Eleanor Roosevelt, Gertrude Stein, Golda Mier, and Harriet Tubman. Many depict fictional females, but aren't there other real... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
When I am not writing a column or this blog, or debating conservative colleagues on PG+, or generally running around like a blue-arsed fly (as they say in the old country), I write some of the anonymous editorials that appear on the Editorial Page of the Post-Gazette. They are written in such a sober and official voice, different from my personal writing, that you may not know which ones were authored...
poeta y diwata: barbara jane reyes blogs here (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
… where ever “there” may be (and here, I don’t mean Oakland, which because of Gertrude Stein, is known as “there.”). For the purposes of this here blog post, “there” means not the West Coast. When Luis Francia came to town last month, one thing he marveled about was the deep sense of history our local [...]
The Eastside View (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
W E DO LIKE TO GO to the theater, Lindsey and I. We see all the plays in Ashland at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival ; we see nearly all the plays in Los Angeles (Glendale, actually) at A Noise Within . We catch occasional plays closer to home, in Berkeley or San Francisco or even up here in Sonoma county, in Santa Rosa or Sebastopol. We like the standard repertory; we like new plays; we like the classics;...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Composer, bandleader and Tzadik label founder John Zorn has long honored women in the arts, through dedications such as "Redbird" (for Agnes Martin), "Duras" (for Marguerite Duras) and "In the Very Eye of Night" (for Maya Deren), and through Tzadik's Oracles Series, which "celebrates the diversity and creativity of women in experimental music." Femina is his...
Recently Banned Literature (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Oblivion, Tyrants, Crumbs by John Levy First Intensity Press Lawrence, Kansas Paper. 194 pages. $16.00 ISBN: 1-889960-16-0 I wish I’d thought of that title. But of course I have my life, and the man who penned it, the poet John Levy, has his. And from his book’s opening pages, as I nodded in silent approval of poem after poem, I found myself caught up in that warm feeling of newly discovered...
<HTMLGIANT> (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Chris Higgs interviews Kristina Born for The Faster Times, about her new book One Hour of Television. [BORN: I wanted it to be suffocating. Gertrude Stein thought (mostly in reference to her plays, I believe) that you can’t write emotional arcs, because if the reader is not in the exact right emotional [...]
Nancy's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Two weeks ago Western Washington University released a study on "inattentional blindness," which means you don't see something because you're paying attention to something else. Specifically, they wanted to know how much talking on a cell phone "blinds" you to other sensory input. Test subjects were in one of four states: talking on a cell, walking in pairs, listening to music on...
Book Calendar (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Portrait of Gertrude Stein, with American flag as backdrop (1935 January 4) Carl Van Vechten, Library of Congress, Public Domain. Daily Thoughts 11/6/2009
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