Sudeep Sen presents ten poems by Greek poet Anastassis Vistonitis, in David Connolly’s translation, as the 29th installment of his World Poetry Portfolio.
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World Poetry Portfolio #25: Todd Swift
Poet Todd Swift presents poems about amirs, Martin Mooney, and “The Polish Builders in Hammersmith,” in the 25th edition of Sudeep Sen’s World Poetry Portfolio.
Brunetti’s Cartooning
Ivan Brunetti, the cartoonist whose work ranges from cute to morally questionable (see his book Ho!), has written a small, instructional book called Cartooning: Philosophy and Practice. Geoff Gossett, the lesser-known cartoonist whose work is mostly just morally questionable, has written a small review.
Bullets, Bladerunner, Sibyls and Shells: a Conversation with the Poet Ruth Fainlight
Poet, translator, and dramatist Jenny Lewis talks with the similarly multi-genre Ruth Fainlight about her poetry, life, experience shooting guns, and her love of B-movies. A “feminist from birth,” Fainlight counted Robert Graves, Sylvia Plath, and Ted Hughes among her close friends.
Opening Out: DIRTY BABY, Part 1
“I want these books to open out instead of close down. I’ve got a library full of what I consider fantastic, successful art books, but the main modality of art books tends to be forensic. The art’s put on the table and it’s examined, and the experts come in and they tell you about it. They tell you what made the thing, brought it to life, who the parents were, what ultimately killed it.”
Peruvian Vanguardist + Picasso
Though he eventually traded in his work as poet for a life of Marxist activism, Carlos Oquendo de Amat did publish one significant collection, written during from age 18 to 20, Five Meters of Poems. David Shook reviews that collection together with Picasso by Picasso.
The Pale Dance: Two Types of Kittens
Geoff Gossett reviews Martin Eder’s The Pale Dance, from Prestel: watercolor portraits of naked women and kittens by a German master.
He murdered the exuberant Nini the Goat
A review of Joanna Nebrosky’s collage interpretations of Félix Fénéon’s three-line novels.
A Conversation with Pascale Petit
A conversation with Pascale Petit about her new collection of poetry, What the Water Gave to Me, a biography in verse of Frida Kahlo.
Geoff’s Shelf, August
Art Director Geoff Gossett introduces recent, rare, and random titles that inspire his work at the drawing table.
Art Institutions & Writing Co-ops
Art School (Propositions for the 21st Century), ed. Steven Henry Madoff (The MIT Press) $29.95 Art School is a serious study of the institutions that facilitate arts education, but more importantly a critique of the prestige those institutions grant within the art community. The anthology considers the contemporary state of arts education not as the [...]
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The Prodigal Son: A Microscript by Robert Walser
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The Literature of Justice
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Writing without Writing: On Mario Bellatin
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Beneath My Olive Tree with Lorca: Poetry by Mahmoud Darwish
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Three Poems from Cuba
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The Black Olive Tree and Other Memories
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Offerings to the God of Attention: Recent Literary Events in Bali and Australia
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World Prose Portfolio #7: Dennis Walder
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Burning Deck: Introducing an Appreciation
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World Prose Portfolio #6: Sunetra Gupta
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