October 2010
32 posts
(a few) Lines For The Fortune Cookies, Frank O’Hara
Please phone The Village Voice immediately: they want to interview you.
Your first volume of poetry will be published as soon as you finish it.
I realize you’ve lived in France, but that doesn’t mean you know EVERYTHING!
The next person to speak to you will have a very intriquing proposal to make. A lot of people in this...
“what drives me is the elusive quality of trying to get something right.”
j. baldessari, works currently on exhibit @ the MET
the material world constrains us, often with great beneficence, to see each person and thing in its time and place, its historical context. but mental life doesn’t so constrain us. it is porous, open to the air and light, swings forward while swaying back, scatters its stripes in all directions, and delights to find itself beached beside something invented only that morning or instead standing...
‘beautiful things, as matisse shows, always carry greetings from other worlds within them. In surrendering to his leaf-light, one is carried to other shorelines as inevitably as Odysseus is carried back to Delos.’
elaine scarry, On Beauty
Love little things and strive for that which is modest and simple.
-Elder Thaddeus
michael cunningham, found in translation, nytimes
on readers:
“We have large and difficult lives. We have, variously, jobs to do, spouses and children to attend to, errands to run, friends to see; we need to keep up with current events; we have gophers in our gardens; we are taking extension courses in French or wine tasting or art appreciation; we are looking for evidence that our lovers...
