The Pink Trance Notebooks

The Pink Trance Notebooks PDF Author: Wayne Koestenbaum
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ISBN: 9781937658403
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 396

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"A collection of 'addictively readable' daybook poems from a leading cultural critic and poet."--

The Pink Trance Notebooks

The Pink Trance Notebooks PDF Author: Wayne Koestenbaum
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ISBN: 9781937658403
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 396

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"A collection of 'addictively readable' daybook poems from a leading cultural critic and poet."--

Notes on Glaze

Notes on Glaze PDF Author: Wayne Koestenbaum
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ISBN: 9781932698589
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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In the spring of 2010, the Brooklyn-based quarterly magazine Cabinet invited poet and cultural critic Wayne Koestenbaum to begin writing a regular column. Entitled "Legend," the column had a highly unusual premise. Every three months, the editors of the magazine would ask Koestenbaum to write one or more extended captions for a single photograph with which they had provided him; drawn from obscure vernacular, commercial and scientific sources, all of the images were unfamiliar to the author. After 18 installments, Koestenbaum concluded his column in the winter of 2015. Notes on Glaze, featuring an introductory essay by the author, collects all the "Legend" columns, as well as their accompanying photographs. Refusing the distancing language of critical disinterest, Koestenbaum's columns always locate the author in intimate proximity to the subjects portrayed in the photographs and to the impossibly variegated cast of characters--ranging from Debbie Reynolds to Duccio, the Dalai Lama to Barbra Streisand; from Hegel to Pee-wee Herman, and Emily Dickinson to Cicciolina--that pass through these texts. Wayne Koestenbaum (born 1958), a Distinguished Professor of English at the CUNY Graduate Center, has published 17 books of poetry, criticism and fiction, including My 1980s & Other Essays (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013), Blue Stranger with Mosaic Background (Turtle Point Press, 2012) and The Anatomy of Harpo Marx (University of California Press, 2012). His most recent book of poetry, The Pink Trance Notebooks, was published in 2015 by Nightboat Books.

Ultramarine

Ultramarine PDF Author: Wayne Koestenbaum
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ISBN: 9781643621159
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages :

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Circus

Circus PDF Author: Wayne Koestenbaum
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1593765630
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 207

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A new edition of a “dazzlingly seductive” fever dream written in “brilliant poetic vernacular” (Bookforum) by a beloved poet and cultural critic, now with an introduction by Rachel Kushner. For five years, concert pianist Theo Mangrove has been living at his family’s home in East Kill, New York, recovering from a nervous breakdown that derailed his career, and attempting to relieve his relentless polysexual appetite in the company of male hustlers, random strangers, music students, his aunt, and occasionally his wife. As he prepares for a comeback recital in Aigues-Mortes, a walled medieval town in southern France, he becomes obsessed with the idea that the Italian circus star Moira Orfei must join him there to perform alongside him. Extravagantly (and tragicomically) describing his hallucinatory plans in a series of twenty-five notebooks, he assembles an incantatory meditation on performance, failure, fame, decay, and delusion. "If Debussy and Robert Walser had collaborated on an opera, it would sound like this. --John Ashbery

MacArthur Park

MacArthur Park PDF Author: Andrew Durbin
Publisher: Nightboat Books
ISBN: 1937658708
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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After Hurricane Sandy, Nick Fowler, a writer, stranded alone in a Manhattan apartment without power, begins to contemplate disaster. Months later, at an artist residency in upstate New York, Nick finds his subject in disaster itself and the communities shaped by it, where crisis animates both hope and denial, unacknowledged pasts and potential futures. As he travels to Los Angeles and London on assignment, Nick discovers that outsiders - their lives and histories disturbed by sex, loss, and bad weather - are often better understood by what they have hidden from the world than what they have revealed.

Of Mineral

Of Mineral PDF Author: Tiff Dressen
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ISBN: 9781643621418
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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A collection of lyric meditations cultivated from a deeply personal experience of the natural world, synthesizing the poet's experiences of the elemental and ephemeral; presence and place. In Of Mineral, Tiff Dressen initiates a chemical reaction, taking place on the page so meaning is continually created and destroyed. The forces at play create a beautiful and unpredictable stability. With intentionality and deep attention, the poet undergoes an elemental education, learning through articulation how to experience the natural world as an active participant rather than as an observer. As the poet attempts to synchronize their left and right brain, boundaries between the urban and the "wild" dissolve to form a more unified experience of presence.

This is Not a Novel and Other Novels

This is Not a Novel and Other Novels PDF Author: David Markson
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1619028190
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 431

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David Markson was a writer like no other. In his novels, which have been called "hypnotic," "stunning," and "exhilarating" and earned him praise from the likes of Kurt Vonnegut and David Foster Wallace, Ann Beattie and Zadie Smith. Markson created his own personal genre. With crackling wit distilled into incantatory streams of thought on art, life, and death, Markson's work has delighted and astonished readers for decades. Now for the first time, three of Markson's masterpieces are compiled into one page–turning volume: This Is Not a Novel, Vanishing Point, and The Last Novel. In This Is Not a Novel, readers meet an author, called only "Writer," who is weary unto death of making up stories, and yet is determined to seduce the reader into turning pages and getting somewhere. Vanishing Point introduces us to "Author," who sets out to transform shoeboxes crammed with note cards into a novel. In The Last Novel, we find an elderly author (referred to only as "Novelist") who announces that, since this will be his final effort, he possesses "carte blanche to do anything he damn well pleases." United by their focus on the trials, calamities, absurdities and even tragedies of the creative life, these novels demonstrate David Markson's extraordinary intellectual richness—leaving readers, time after time, with the most indisputably original of reading experiences.

What I Knew

What I Knew PDF Author: Eleni Sikelianos
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ISBN: 9781937658991
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A book-length poem that grapples with the global and the globalized, bringing personal reflection to our tumultuous world.

The Anatomy of Harpo Marx

The Anatomy of Harpo Marx PDF Author: Wayne Koestenbaum
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520951980
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 311

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The Anatomy of Harpo Marx is a luxuriant, detailed play-by-play account of Harpo Marx’s physical movements as captured on screen. Wayne Koestenbaum guides us through the thirteen Marx Brothers films, from The Cocoanuts in 1929 to Love Happy in 1950, to focus on Harpo’s chief and yet heretofore unexplored attribute—his profound and contradictory corporeality. Koestenbaum celebrates the astonishing range of Harpo’s body—its kinks, sexual multiplicities, somnolence, Jewishness, "cute" pathos, and more. In a virtuosic performance, Koestenbaum’s text moves gracefully from insightful analysis to cultural critique to autobiographical musing, and provides Harpo with a host of odd bedfellows, including Walter Benjamin and Barbra Streisand.

The Force of What's Possible

The Force of What's Possible PDF Author: Lily K. Hoang
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ISBN: 9781937658274
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 377

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A dynamic collection of essays addressing the question of accessibility in experimental writing