Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Art."FANTASTIC CARYATIDS, by Anne Waldman & Vincent Katz, is a lush, vivid and spectacular reading/album/book of poetry, conversation and photographs. Note that the subtitle is A Conversation with Art. The with has the particularities of city, specificities of the senses, of memories, of an ethos whose upper limit is friendship, companionship. It is a model, a remarkable 'alternative version of how to be alive.' (Anne Waldman) Dynamic, urbane, intimate, 'the occasion of these ruses' (Frank O ...
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Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Art."FANTASTIC CARYATIDS, by Anne Waldman & Vincent Katz, is a lush, vivid and spectacular reading/album/book of poetry, conversation and photographs. Note that the subtitle is A Conversation with Art. The with has the particularities of city, specificities of the senses, of memories, of an ethos whose upper limit is friendship, companionship. It is a model, a remarkable 'alternative version of how to be alive.' (Anne Waldman) Dynamic, urbane, intimate, 'the occasion of these ruses' (Frank O'Hara) is synergy from chronos to kairos. From Ted Berrigan and Barbara Guest to Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, from Chelsea to St. Mark's, from Kiki Smith to Patti Smith, we see the duo's radiant and earnest exchanges about how communities develop around being together in space and time, making and sharing a world, a life. The proliferations of concretions and abstractions connect to early days ('first hits of reading,' first poetry) to the making, the working, the people they knew and know. 'From you I get the story' gestures back to Guido Cavalcanti's subtle spirit which 'strikes through the eyes / That rouses a spirit in the mind / From which a spirit of love will rise.' From 'Look at that field' to 'What did we miss?' From Vincent Katz's 'Alright, we're live' to Anne Waldman's 'Satori!' Well, you get the picture: 'Form is love.' You don't want to miss this!"--Norma Cole "New York Schooling: standing still and walking in New York. Philip Whalen, ever far from NYC, wrote in a poem that 'a walking grove of trees' is what 'academy' might, in its deep root, really mean. Taken to heart, this could lead to a mode of wondering-while-wandering 'what could happen to us between ourselves when we expose ourselves to this space, which belongs neither to one nor the other.' That is, to Avital Ronell's charmed formulation for t
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