tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80699106485943173192024-03-08T13:15:55.898-08:00PageBoy MagazinePageBoy Magazine publishes both literary and visual art. If you would like to submit work, join the mailing list, or other, please write to pageboymagazine@hotmail.comThomas Waltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11906955265886808697noreply@blogger.comBlogger227125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8069910648594317319.post-55244441170215766102020-05-09T09:49:00.004-07:002020-05-22T09:28:34.372-07:00PageBoy Issue XI is live!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Happy to announce that our eleventh issue is now available!<br />
The current issue features original artwork by (and an interview with) Seattle-based artist Claire Cowie.<br />
Poetry and/or prose by Aaron Anstett, Jennifer Burdette, Alejandro Carrillo E., Stephen Collis, Jen Currin, Eric Wayne Dickey, Jeff Encke, Bill Hollands, Rebecca Hoogs, Sarah Jones, Jason Kirk, Rauan Klassnik, Richard Kostelanetz, Linera Lucas, Shin Yu Pai, Adam Perry, Julia Powers, David Romanda, Jeremy Springsteed, Rick VanderKnyff and Nico Vassilakis.<br />
To order copies, please click the button on this page.Thomas Waltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11906955265886808697noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8069910648594317319.post-15511648080528350972020-04-17T15:33:00.000-07:002020-04-17T15:33:19.094-07:00Book Review: Nadine Antoinette Maestas on Kristen Millares Young's Debut Novel <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Kristen Millares Young’s debut novel, <i>Subduction</i>, focuses on the journey of Claudia, a Mexican-American anthropologist running from her life in Seattle where her husband left her for her sister. Claudia’s need to escape and her anthropological research take her back to the Makah Reservation at Neah Bay on the Olympic Peninsula where she reconnects with Maggie and meets Maggie’s son, Peter, who has returned to care for his mother. As an anthropologist, Claudia sees her role as someone whose job it is to record as much information and as many stories from the Makah culture as she can, but she is acutely and consistently aware of her outsider status and the inherent flaws in her field of research. She is an outsider, an interloper, who is not to be fully trusted, but she is also a catalyst for the telling of stories and more importantly for the convergence of stories that emerge from Peter’s family, community and culture.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The book’s title is an apt place from which to begin thinking about the intertwining narratives of all of the characters in all of their complexities. The story takes place along the Cascadian Subduction Zone, where there is a convergence of tectonic plates. These active, moving plates cause earthquakes and facilitate volcanic activity. This is relevant because in the background of the novel there is a reoccurring, yet somewhat murky retelling of an earthquake and tsunami that unleashed their destructive forces on the indigenous coastal communities hundreds of years ago. So much of the novel is about the recovery of memories, of stories, and of culture, and much like the tectonic plates, when Claudia and Peter meet, there is a seismic rupture in the social and cultural fabric of the community. Things shake loose, and difficult stories emerge and converge where violence and beauty simultaneously occur.</div>
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>While reading the novel I kept going back to what Mary Louis Pratt likes to call “contact zones.” In her essay “Arts of the Contact Zone” she uses this term “to refer to social spaces where cultures meet, clash, and grapple with each other, often in contexts of highly asymmetrical relations of power, such as colonialism, slavery, or their eventual aftermaths as they are lived out in many parts of the world today.”</div>
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Pratt notes “autoethnography, transculturation, critique, collaboration, bilingualism, mediation, parody, denunciation, imaginary dialogue, and vernacular expression” as some of the “literate arts of the contact zone.” And she suggests that “miscomprehension, incomprehension, dead letters, unread masterpieces, absolute heterogeneity of meaning” are some of the “perils of writing in the contact zone.”</div>
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I would argue that Young’s novel is a space for readers to see the clashing and grappling of cultures and narratives in all of its messiness and uncomfortableness. In this sense the lack of resolution and completeness in the characters in the novel feels right and offers us a sense of human authenticity. In this way, Young is able to produce a character like Claudia, who is able to critically reflect back on her profession and her role in Peter and Maggie’s world. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Young’s prose feels effortless. It propels and brings into contact the complex stories of Claudia, Peter, Maggie and the Makah. Her attention to the landscape of human emotion and thought holds up a mirror to the power relationships between cultures, genders, and family. And yet I can’t help but ask myself, does Young cross the line in writing this novel, in telling these stories and the stories within the stories? I would venture to say that yes, in a sense she does cross lines, but that is the point reflected in the internalized criticism that the character Claudia carries in herself, and it is the point of Pratt’s contact zone, as it is the point of Young’s subduction zone.</div>
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Book page here: <a href="https://redhenpress.org/products/subduction-by-kristen-millares-young">Subduction</a></div>
Thomas Waltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11906955265886808697noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8069910648594317319.post-60285511960195061922019-10-21T12:39:00.003-07:002019-10-21T12:39:58.072-07:00PageBoy Call for Work, 11th Issue!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> PageBoy Magazine is currently gathering material for our eleventh (!) issue. If you have something that you'd like to share, please send it along and we will consider it for publication. There is no theme for our upcoming issue. Poetry, prose, fiction, nonfiction, reviews, seventeens, etc. We are open to any form, as we believe any form works if the writer makes it work.</span></div>
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Why publish with PageBoy Magazine? We invite you to use this form - the hard copy literary magazine (so 1990's!) - to (1) experiment with your work (if you are an established writer), (2) to add to the ongoing literary conversation, (3) to gain a prestigious publishing credit!, (4) to be invited (if accepted) to read at our release party this coming winter/spring, (5) to become famous, (6) to get your mind off the current political situation (if only for an instant!), and (7) for the money! (there isn't any, of course, but we will send you a contributor copy, and do our best to champion you currently and with any future projects you have on our enormously successful social media platforms. </div>
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Thomas Waltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11906955265886808697noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8069910648594317319.post-30395688931971577252019-10-06T12:56:00.001-07:002019-10-06T12:56:46.438-07:00I Remember <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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I remember the first time I saw Joe Brainard's book I Remember. I was in Boulder Colorado watching a busker contort himself into a tiny plexiglass box. Someone was reading I Remember on a bench nearby.<br />
Later I saw it in the bookstore on Pearl St., and I remember I was very excited by the form, and I read nearly half the book right then and there, but then I felt nauseous and had to leave. I remember being very confused when someone asked me, years later, if I "liked it."Thomas Waltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11906955265886808697noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8069910648594317319.post-52940894151716838882019-02-06T13:12:00.001-08:002019-03-12T12:15:46.163-07:00PageBoy at AWP!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">17 people in a phone booth.</td></tr>
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PageBoy Magazine will host a constraint based, offsite event as part of AWP. A happy hour event from 4:30-6 at Rose City Book Pub on Friday 3/29. The event will be devoted to the poetic form the Seventeen - essentially a seventeen word poem or prose work. Seventeen writers will read work in this form, two heavy metal thrashers - aka The Drop Shadows - will interpret the form in a musical way.<br />
Readers include Aaron Anstett, Jennifer Burdette, William Camponovo, Elizabeth Cooperman, Sarah Erickson, Johnny Horton, Chelsea Werner-Jatzke, Nadine Maestas, Sarah Kathryn Moore, Katie Ogle, Paul Sheprow, Sarah Shotwell, Danielle Skredsvig and Thomas Walton. Musical constraint provided by Jeanine Walker and Steve Mauer.Thomas Waltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11906955265886808697noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8069910648594317319.post-48301333621068876202018-12-19T09:36:00.002-08:002018-12-19T09:36:27.859-08:00Issue X Seattle Release!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Shawna</i>, Ann Gale</td></tr>
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PageBoy Issue X is out and we are celebrating at the Richard Hugo House in Seattle WA on 1/3/19 at 7p.m. Our tenth issue consists entirely of Seventeens, which are poems or prose works consisting of seventeen words and seventeen words only. We have assembled nearly 40 writers writing in this form! Our featured artist is the fantastic Ann Gale, who graciously allowed us to interview her and print the highlights from our discussion.<span id="goog_968986769"></span><br />
To purchase, please see the link in the sidebar. For more info on the release party, please click here: <a href="https://hugohouse.org/event/release-party-pageboy-magazine-issue-10/">Issue X Release Party!</a><br />
<br />Thomas Waltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11906955265886808697noreply@blogger.com178tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8069910648594317319.post-62164064428184611422018-11-30T09:47:00.001-08:002018-11-30T09:47:59.408-08:00PageBoy Issue X Portland Release!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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PageBoy Magazine is releasing our tenth issue on December 16th at the 1122 Gallery in Portland OR! Readers include Jennifer Burdette, Jennifer Denrow, David Fewster, Jesse Morse, Rachel Nelson, Paul Sheprow, and James Yeary. </div>
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More info here: <a href="https://1122gallery.com/index.html">PageBoy Portland Release!</a></div>
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Thomas Waltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11906955265886808697noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8069910648594317319.post-28125885642244961572018-09-09T11:32:00.002-07:002018-09-09T11:32:55.257-07:00Tweets from Maine and Texas<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;"> "We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> - Henry David Thoreau in 1854 (!), questioning our assumptions that technological progress is inherently good for culture. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> When will we have heard enough of Maine and Texas? </span></span>Thomas Waltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11906955265886808697noreply@blogger.com32tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8069910648594317319.post-19437511865220492492018-05-27T12:42:00.000-07:002018-05-27T12:42:04.863-07:00A Healthy Dose of Cynicism <br />
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"Reciting part of a sutra with the desire to benefit others is like reciting a recipe in the hope it will prevent people from starving."<br />
-Bossui (in Zen Radicals, Reformers, Rebels)Thomas Waltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11906955265886808697noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8069910648594317319.post-52993705652725710802018-01-06T13:08:00.002-08:002018-01-06T13:08:31.509-08:00Call for Work for Our Tenth Issue!!!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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PageBoy Magazine is now accepting submissions for our upcoming (tenth!) issue. We are following our Writers on Writers issue with an issue devoted exclusively to 17 word poems, or "17s" (see below). </div>
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Please send 5-10 of your best works in prose or poetry - as long as each is exactly and only 17 words short - to pageboymagazine@hotmail.com by March 15, 2018.<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, Helvetica, EmojiFont, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', NotoColorEmoji, 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Android Emoji', EmojiSymbols;"> </span>We are open to any style, any voice, as long as it "works," so do whatever you like with the form. We're curious to see what you come up with!</div>
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- That said, 17s rely heavily on / seek to encourage Keats' idea of Negative Capability, when one is "capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason." </div>
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- 17s are meant to wrest language back into the imagination and out of the mundane, "to get that intensity back into the language." (Gertrude Stein)</div>
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"a word is a bottomless pit"</div>
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-Lyn Hejinian</div>
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"I sometimes think that Leaves of Grass is only a language experiment - that is, an attempt to give spirit, the body, the man, new potentialities of speech."</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> "I have news for you ... verse has been tampered with!"</span></div>
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"It is my duty to be attentive, I am needed by things as the sky must be above the earth."</div>
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"I do not <i>use</i> the language, I <i>interact</i> with it."</div>
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"fragments are our wholes"</div>
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Anna Akhmatova's poem Requiem was written for her son, who was imprisoned by Stalin in the 1930s. She wrote the entire manuscript on scraps of paper that she destroyed as soon as she committed them to memory for fear that she herself would be arrested. A few friends helped her memorize the text, which they carried in quiet for more than twenty years. When they did publish it, in 1963, it had became a kind of oral poetry bearing witness to the crimes of the Soviet Union, specifically the Stalinist regime.Thomas Waltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11906955265886808697noreply@blogger.com296tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8069910648594317319.post-43830874922088329112017-10-31T10:32:00.000-07:002017-10-31T10:32:22.477-07:00Seeing Is Believing<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Leonardo: if the beard fits, wear it.</td></tr>
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"It's through seeing that you understand the beauty of created things, the greatest of the things that induce love."<br />
- Leonardo arguing in the early 1500s for what is in front of us, what we can see, touch, smell, hear, taste. <br />
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Galileo, one hundred years later, complained that "people were denying the evidence of their own senses and submitting to the judgement of others [i.e. the church], allowing people totally ignorant of an art or science to be judges of intellectuals ... these are the new powers that can ruin republics and subvert states."<br />
Same old refrain, 500 years later.Thomas Waltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11906955265886808697noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8069910648594317319.post-91642886490717856002017-10-25T16:19:00.002-07:002017-10-25T16:19:53.794-07:00Avoidance of Traditional Musical Tonality<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Thomas Waltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11906955265886808697noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8069910648594317319.post-44540784093335985782017-05-19T14:58:00.001-07:002017-05-19T14:58:13.404-07:00Issue IX, Writers on Writers, Now Out<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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The new issue of PageBoy Magazine, Writers on Writers, is now out! Please see the review below, and then HELP SUPPORT INDEPENDENT MAGAZINES by, well, purchasing a copy.<br />
<a href="http://www.seattlereviewofbooks.com/reviews/writing-in-between-the-lines/">Issue ix reviewed here</a>.Thomas Waltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11906955265886808697noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8069910648594317319.post-29678010755536106312017-04-17T14:10:00.000-07:002017-04-17T14:10:17.692-07:00Who Killed Rilke?<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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" ... the hallmark of academic criticism: it kills everything it touches. Walk around a university campus and there is an almost palpable smell of death about the place because hundreds of academics are killing everything they touch. I recently met an academic who said that he taught German literature. I was aghast: to think, this man who had been in universities all his life was teaching Rilke. Rilke! Oh it was too much to bear. You don't teach Rilke, I wanted to say, you kill Rilke!"<br />
-Geoff Dyer, <i>Out of Sheer Rage</i>.<br />
Thomas Waltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11906955265886808697noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8069910648594317319.post-31211851663197017792017-03-26T16:21:00.002-07:002017-03-26T16:21:39.442-07:00Puccini's Oregano<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">this week's libretto</td></tr>
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"Opera begins in the market where, over and above the simple demands of competition of being able to attract customers' attention, stall holders have to convey the color and taste of fruit in their voices. The man selling oregano, for example: he called out and the air was fragrant with oregano.</div>
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His job was not to <i>sell</i> oregano, but to fill the air with the sound of its scent."</div>
-Geoff Dyer in <i>Out of Sheer Rage</i>.<br />
Thomas Waltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11906955265886808697noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8069910648594317319.post-10856872583778683062016-10-01T09:24:00.000-07:002017-03-08T10:42:14.240-08:00Call for 'writing on writers'! PageBoy invites you to submit original work in any form on the theme "writers on writers." Please
consider writing something on your favorite author, or your least
favorite author; or on an author you feel deserves more attention, or on
an author you feel deserves less. <br />
Homage/essay/elegy/interview/rant/criticism/limerick/etc.
will all be considered for publication in our upcoming, ninth issue.
Subjects can be well known or little known, widely published or not at
all, so long as the piece itself is interesting enough. Work should be
submitted by Nov. 15th.<br />
We look forward to reading your work,<br />
- PageBoy CrewThomas Waltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11906955265886808697noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8069910648594317319.post-26417419585231537652016-05-29T10:25:00.003-07:002016-05-29T10:25:44.660-07:00Those Divine Words<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOiSKQPe1HwZ2YYJjXXE48AxCRetpXCSLU5tZT7eXmYPNQYh08RcWEKDK31w2fZNRNLEFRQ0F-GitWZPKQUOSIt_CaL9jdHsK6gcQDCN-Gs-jkBuluFd2l1DzQu8gs8bLBRBzbrSiYnPs/s1600/normanbates.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOiSKQPe1HwZ2YYJjXXE48AxCRetpXCSLU5tZT7eXmYPNQYh08RcWEKDK31w2fZNRNLEFRQ0F-GitWZPKQUOSIt_CaL9jdHsK6gcQDCN-Gs-jkBuluFd2l1DzQu8gs8bLBRBzbrSiYnPs/s1600/normanbates.jpg" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">spoooooooooky!</td></tr>
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"Writing is spooky. There is no routine of an office to keep you going, only the blank page each morning, and you never know where your words are coming from, those divine words."<br />
- Norman Mailer.Thomas Waltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11906955265886808697noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8069910648594317319.post-50866335174858321902016-05-18T11:44:00.002-07:002016-05-18T11:44:42.567-07:00Painting Badly<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaoMVVx-jU2eDg46jRM4UkbX3qjdMb7OHv1w8YBMLGRlAq7molud-zRTgHABECXmeKLsP8Gnk2j1vgNPzEsDaGhdgl8qZ2eI6QJtfBW8g72xEoVmeoAP3NXP9fDZzyhBBws-C2Rc7hHFY/s1600/cezanne.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaoMVVx-jU2eDg46jRM4UkbX3qjdMb7OHv1w8YBMLGRlAq7molud-zRTgHABECXmeKLsP8Gnk2j1vgNPzEsDaGhdgl8qZ2eI6QJtfBW8g72xEoVmeoAP3NXP9fDZzyhBBws-C2Rc7hHFY/s320/cezanne.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Montagne Sainte-Victoire painted badly by Cezanne</td></tr>
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"The most admirable thing in the life of Cezanne was his perseverance in painting badly."<br />
-from an obituary of Cezanne in <i>Le Soleil.</i>Thomas Waltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11906955265886808697noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8069910648594317319.post-84899600049224776322016-04-06T13:43:00.003-07:002016-04-06T13:43:27.607-07:00A Pitcher of Wine Forever<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIb_mJZTVJnnZNvUDh44RF1fqXX4YWBG7D3uw6rn0P9dHKf0zagcKbYCmBWX9qDjngWeOp4Ah6ImxHaSYezk0-pcG2Wr110okmdmGQWTTSfnoQD4u0mPQuMEMynAO9t9ZswE4eme7xtxg/s1600/chaucer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIb_mJZTVJnnZNvUDh44RF1fqXX4YWBG7D3uw6rn0P9dHKf0zagcKbYCmBWX9qDjngWeOp4Ah6ImxHaSYezk0-pcG2Wr110okmdmGQWTTSfnoQD4u0mPQuMEMynAO9t9ZswE4eme7xtxg/s1600/chaucer.jpg" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chaucer, drunk as a chamber pot</td></tr>
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King Edward III gave Chaucer an annuity of 20 marks in 1367, calling him dilectus valettus noster (our beloved valet). By the end of 1368 Chaucer was an Esquire. Six years later, however, Chaucer received his greatest accolades from the king: a pitcher of wine per day for the rest of his life!<br />
-from Lives of the Poets, pg. 56 (Schmidt)Thomas Waltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11906955265886808697noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8069910648594317319.post-67575379158032837232016-02-26T17:10:00.001-08:002016-02-26T17:10:09.592-08:00No Idea What I'm Doing<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLfIeJfnKt8mnbxbDEgWvKiO2VHjvJt4bUJ2zl5FGaHy6cA_2qhEQNmDFoblUpx7xV4qUrrsglBgb6io6S4v4uilKU7OeoAUNcFezGd9oVkN6z8OvcKDP9GhUvLwVTLYIYwE0Dyoi7XRM/s1600/francisbacon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLfIeJfnKt8mnbxbDEgWvKiO2VHjvJt4bUJ2zl5FGaHy6cA_2qhEQNmDFoblUpx7xV4qUrrsglBgb6io6S4v4uilKU7OeoAUNcFezGd9oVkN6z8OvcKDP9GhUvLwVTLYIYwE0Dyoi7XRM/s320/francisbacon.jpg" width="255" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Francis Bacon has no idea what he's doing.</td></tr>
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"I think that you can make, very much as in abstract painting, involuntary marks on the canvas which may suggest much deeper ways by which you can trap the facts you are obsessed by. If anything ever does work in my case, it works from that moment when consciously I didn't know what I was doing ... It's really a question in my case of being able to set a trap with which one would be able to catch the fact at its most living point."<br />
- Francis BaconThomas Waltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11906955265886808697noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8069910648594317319.post-92173085957257842662016-01-21T11:05:00.001-08:002016-01-21T11:05:14.415-08:00Keep Starting <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsBSKWdobipYT638rKxSmSuk_XVKkS30puzuhFRpHNoFV8Ck_I3T4Ia-X2sVmNtgGOY4aaYdMDH1ea4UuXFldYk43AtLf7Pj5gNBwYvFBHQgH4pNjKJbm2s6dwAZQWsXZegklrk7FqGrk/s1600/gorky-garden-in-sochi-1940.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsBSKWdobipYT638rKxSmSuk_XVKkS30puzuhFRpHNoFV8Ck_I3T4Ia-X2sVmNtgGOY4aaYdMDH1ea4UuXFldYk43AtLf7Pj5gNBwYvFBHQgH4pNjKJbm2s6dwAZQWsXZegklrk7FqGrk/s320/gorky-garden-in-sochi-1940.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gorky's <i>Garden in Sochi</i> ... unfinished?</td></tr>
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"When something is finished, that means it's dead, doesn't it? I believe in everlastingness. I never finish a painting - I just stop working on it for a while. I like painting because it's something I never come to the end of ... The thing to do is always to keep starting to paint, never finishing painting."<br />
- Arshile Gorky.Thomas Waltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11906955265886808697noreply@blogger.com82tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8069910648594317319.post-73182618888344460302015-12-10T10:31:00.002-08:002015-12-10T10:31:50.548-08:00Why do I think it's not beautiful?<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihaAZ2bTvJKhzcto_c2ekyCAodCG5ZCbmO2AKWUXYnUGJFnY4AaaBl94bs5P2AMADR3P7UxQ_IZHbXfke5KGiRtD6KlYK7ICdWjDBYyoPg_g2mTaPqfCijjezbwyBAaqmHJEk_kbZYNGc/s1600/Matisse-Woman-with-a-Hat.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihaAZ2bTvJKhzcto_c2ekyCAodCG5ZCbmO2AKWUXYnUGJFnY4AaaBl94bs5P2AMADR3P7UxQ_IZHbXfke5KGiRtD6KlYK7ICdWjDBYyoPg_g2mTaPqfCijjezbwyBAaqmHJEk_kbZYNGc/s320/Matisse-Woman-with-a-Hat.jpg" width="225" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Matisse's much maligned 'Woman with a Hat'</td></tr>
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"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is 'why do I think it's not beautiful?' And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.<br />
"If we can conquer that dislike, or begin to like what we did dislike, then the world is more open. That path, of increasing one's enjoyment of life, is the path I think we'd all best take. To use art not as self-expression but as self-alteration. To become more open."<br />
- John Cage.Thomas Waltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11906955265886808697noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8069910648594317319.post-10709342506667071562015-11-23T13:36:00.003-08:002015-11-23T13:36:42.337-08:00The Price of Worthlessness<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here are a couple amusing quotes from intro to Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus, written in 1942:<br />
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"It may be said of poets that while their systematic thought is now nearly worthless, their detached insights are priceless."<br />
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"In this first half of the 20th century we have acquired a high regard for commentaries, so busying ourselves with what someone else has to say about a work of art that we have no insight left to look upon the work itself."Thomas Waltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11906955265886808697noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8069910648594317319.post-88536589584542445032015-10-28T16:22:00.000-07:002015-10-28T16:22:13.569-07:00Words Pose As Language<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What is the meaning of that paisley suit!</td></tr>
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"For years, I've been working toward a situation like the one we find ourselves in now; one where language is purely formal and concrete; like language itself, this essay ["Postlude: I Love Speech" in <i>The Sound of Poetry / The Poetry of Sound</i> (eds. Perloff, Dworkin) is both meaningful and meaningless at the same time. The page is now thick with words posing as language."</div>
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-Kenneth Goldsmith</div>
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