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about lucille clifton upon the sad occasion of her death click here yesterday at poets house in nyc we spent time at the special exhibition come celebrate with me the work of lucille clifton curated by kevin young with amy hildreth chen and lisa chinn the collection of clifton s books notes manuscript drafts and other ephemera stems from emory university s libraries archives click here for more her voice is in our head forever posted by lobster and canary at 12 46 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday march 2 2014 fund science thank you neil degrasse tyson the wisest statement i read this week is a singularly compelling and important point that astrophysicist public intellectual neil degrasse tyson makes in an interview in the current issue of wired magazine at least in america science has been treated sort of cavalierly not only by the public but also by government the idea that science is just some luxury that you ll get around to if you can afford it is regressive to any future a country might dream for itself innovations in science and technology are the engines of the 21st century economy if you care about the wealth and health of your nation tomorrow then you d better rethink how you allocate taxes to fund science the federal budget needs to recognize this for more in this vein by degrasse tyson click here posted by lobster and canary at 5 32 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday february 23 2014 dancing architecture frank stella from his scarlatti kirkpatrick series 2006 ongoing all images copyright to the artist and or his representative s images used here solely for purposes of commentary i e non commercial usage i always chuckle at the statement variously attributed to martin mull frank zappa and several other musicians that writing about music is like dancing about architecture click here i admire its glibness but i do not agree too precious too clever by half in my opinion why shouldn t we cross those hoary boundaries was recently reminded of this seeing one of stella s scarlatti kirkpatrick pieces at the museum of art design in nyc stella bases his series on both the 17th century italian composer scarlatti and on yale musicologist harpsichordist ralph kirkpatrick who authored the definitive catalog of scarlatti s work in 1953 as stella says if you follow an edge of a given work visually and follow it through quickly you find the sense of rhythm and movement that you get in music click here for more on the stella series and here for a little scarlatti posted by lobster and canary at 8 00 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday february 16 2014 hacking the book su blackwell out of narnia 2009 blackwell holds the copyright image used here solely for purposes of commentary i e non commercial the more digital our world becomes the more we remember to cherish its physicality not in a fetishistic way or with antiquarian longing but in a visceral cut to the gut joy we sculpt with our slow food we mash up our music we slice and dice our tweets and chats and our books oh my yes we may read on a countless array of screens yet still return to the printed page and its binding as works of art in their own right thinking of an upsurge over the past decade of mixed media hand crafted works involving books sometimes building on the tradition of the artist s book in other cases stemming more from scrapbooking practices and in others from the principles of collage and iconoclasm saturating the internet su blackwell transports us into the world within the book click here for more last july we blogged about lisa occhipinti and her re envisioning of the book as object click here gabe cyr s mixed media books dozens of experiments in altering books is a lovely collection click here other resources printed matter inc click here the contemporary artists books conference click here 1 000 artists books exploring the book as art by peter donna thomas and sandra salamony click here the center for book arts click here posted by lobster and canary at 5 31 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday february 9 2014 mapping a billion stars another space break giving ourselves another breather after the long form interview with sandra kasturi the european space agency is preparing to launch gaia a probe that will map a billion stars over five years per the esa site it is expected to discover hundreds of thousands of new celestial objects such as extra solar planets and brown dwarfs and observe hundreds of thousands of asteroids within our own solar system the mission will also study about 500 000 distant quasars and will provide stringent new tests of albert einstein s general theory of relativity click here for more posted by lobster and canary at 6 00 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday february 2 2014 sandra kasturi interview part two question 4 palelemon sunstreaks echoes of the thick teutonic languages the languages of augurs as you put it in augury similar echoes throughout your poetry for instance in your october country the flotsam joy of the petal storm purple buttered thistle deranged yellow heat that pan cracked brittle ice slippered sweet its red leaf feathered burnished golden limbs yet hold on strewn among the germanic thicket are latinate flowers joy deranged burnish and blooms from the greek petal purple and persian lemon talk about word choice and especially whether you think that being a poet from an officially multilingual country has made you more alert to the inner life of the words you choose kasturi well with palelemon sunstreaks and other things of that ilk i am probably cribbing a bit from the feel of earl birney s wonderful poem anglo saxon street in which he evokes those old odes in a very modern setting i always thought that poem was really funny so it probably infused some of my work language has probably always been important to me though not in a conscious way i was almost a polyglot growing up english was my fourth language after estonian singhalese and german i m still fluent in estonian but singhalese is completely gone and german is like listening to a radio station that s not quite tuned in i also have a smattering of french from the canadian school system but i think those early languages probably altered the way i think at a very young age some languages have concepts that simply can t be translated so that probably gives you interesting pathways in the brain i sometimes make funny typos when writing really fast i ll start to spell something the estonian way and then when i look back i go whaaaat my favourite one was when i wanted to write used to and started typing juust which is how it would be spelled in estonian actually felicitously juust means cheese in estonian so i had this weird bilingual typo joke going on that probably only other estonians or maybe finns will find funny so yeah maybe living in a multilingual country has helped cultural mosaic speaking a bunch of languages at an early ages nature nurture who knows but i love the sounds of words and i love stringing together things and making entirely new words i was influenced in that by my friend carleton wilson who s a wonderful poet he said in one poem something about the branches of trees gnarcing i adored that gnarcing isn t a word but of course you know immediately what he means so perfect question 5 words and images and how to separate the dancer from the dance which comes first for you the words summoned from the hoard in the middle of the night needing then the image to clothe them in the light or the image born in those palelemon sunstreaks needing the proper words to adorn them hummingbirds don t fly south for the winter they just freeze where they are in the air mistaken for speckles of winter sunlight or sometimes low hanging stars from hummingbird hagiography you are black as bees dark as the spine of a prison tower black as bees here is freedom strange as irregular knitting the other side of the wall is static with bald poets wry madmen and bizarre women flapping their arms in the attic the soft key a smile fifteen years in the making cryogenics kasturi hummingbird hagiography is another cheat i m afraid in that it was done for this wonderful poetry exercise called twenty little poetry projects by jim simmerman i highly recommend it especially for when you are creatively blocked http mypage siu edu puglove twenty htm i wasn t blocked when i wrote that we just did it in a poetry workshop i was running with david clink we also gave a 15 minute time restriction on writing it a lot of great stuff came out of that exercise from a lot of people generally though i think words come to me i think in titles or in first lines and they float around and then the rest comes i don t really think in images but if the words help create the image i guess i ve done my job though i ve done some ekphrastic poetry based on paintings or other images but they re never as good i feel i guess my brain just doesn t work that way i m bookish to the core question 6 you re funny i laughed out loud several times while reading come late and chuckled often daedalus spinning the story of icarus in obese mythologies the avian high supreme action committee requiring a special license for caged bird keepers shades of monty python in bird logic the european bee eater going hungry because the bees have moved to condos in the city regretful orbits in your shoe the bee a sort of dirigibly fat apian ghost ship damned for whatever sins bees commit a bumbleship in big bee cosmology do you set out to be humorous or does the humor suggest itself as the poem emerges kasturi i think i m just weird i don t usually set out to be funny in fact i ve had poems receive huge yuks like after misreading emerson which is my earlier collection the animal bridegroom which i ve actually thought were sad poems but then people laugh when i read them aloud go figure or maybe i just had my skirt tucked into my underpants or something but i do confess that sometimes there are things that i m so enchanted with and so charmed by that i really hope other people will feel the same way bumbleship who wouldn t like that it s adorable like many other people i think i find the universe and existing in it to be this kind of absurdist comedy so maybe that comes through it s nice to hear i m funny though feel free to tell me that often question 7 humorous yes but often tinged with sorrow with longing for the unattainable with la musica del amargue just as you and i wish to be birds wish to listen to the fabled echo the faint but steady pull of birdsong that brags to landbound mammals about the joys of flight the sweeping pull of wings the movement of men and gods let us end this tyranny of waiting of longing to fly south for the winter to imaginary countries where it only rains lullabies let us begin we are not wading but are treading water carefully in a narrow sea godwit does writing poetry ease your yearnings or enflame them kasturi i ve felt lost for much of my life i think or maybe i read too many fairy tales that s also possible it s not surprising that sondheim s into the woods is one of my favourite musicals of all time i love stories and reversals in stories and tales that go wrong i often feel like i m homesick for places i ve never been or that are long past or places that don t even exist agatha christie s england michael gruber s voodoo riddled miami hogwarts 1920s paris narnia middle earth though i look at that list and realize that all those places were filled with terrible things murder racism dictators evil and abuses of all sorts i always thought the germans would have some sort of giant compound word for longing for places that you have never been but i haven t found it yet i just finished rereading the lord of the rings for the umpteenth time but for the first time in my life i wept at the end what s that about sorrow at partings at journey s and book s end yearning for magical things yearning for the time in my childhood when i first read it knowing i can never re experience that first sense of wonder again nostalgia that criminal muse god it s all so terribly sentimental and maudlin isn t it i m ashamed of myself i think writing for me gets the yearning on the page does it ease anguish no i don t think so but maybe it gives it parameters here is the very thing that is breaking your heart you can look at it cleanly does doing this mend you no but knowing a thing can help i don t reread the sad poems like godwit much elegies are often too hard and the memory is cliché alert like probing a sore tooth you become like laurence olivier doing terrible things to your mouth muttering is it safe why do that to yourself of course i do it we all do it that terrible delicious anguish of loss and memory question 8 along the same lines i recently ran across this statement in mary ruefle s on beginnings in her collected lectures madness rack and honey gaston bachelard says the single most succinct and astonishing thing we begin in admiration and we end by organizing our disappointment your reaction to this sentiment kasturi ha that s wonderful it s such an enormous statement on so many levels i m not sure i can even answer properly my initial reactions hilarious awful apt why can t i say anything that profound depressing is that my own humdrum little life do i admire myself and my work only to find it all terribly disappointing embarrassment and shame at the possibility of admiring myself too much not done off track what did daniel ask me oh yeah that quotation hilarious no sad do i understand it or myself or my writing maybe not maybe that s the best example of how my squirrelly self absorbed little brain works show me something profound and all i can think of is how it relates to me quel horreur posted by lobster and canary at 6 26 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday january 26 2014 come late to the love of birds sandra kasturi interview part one another lovely treat for and from lobster canary to start our 2014 an interview with poet sandra kasturi about her latest collection come late to the love of birds recently published by tightrope books which also put out her debut collection the animal bridegroom click here to purchase the book full disclosure sandra is co owner of chizine publications which published my two novels i received a free advance copy of come late to the love of birds sandra is a bram stoker award winning editor czp won the british fantasy award last year and has been nominated for the world fantasy award she identifies closely with speculative fiction the new fabulism her work is among the best these hybrid genres have produced in recent years and is part of the ren...