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ary american women poets are using dickinson as a source for a poetic at once experimental and felt yet this relation is made less homey and ancestry than might seem because of dickinson s pessimism and her own poetry s resistance to being thematized heaven is so far of the mind that was the mind dissolved the site of it by architect could not again be proved what cannot be articulated is so unable to be formulated that we cannot even discern its frame and thus not just dickinson s incantatory austerity but an underlying elusiveness is there in firestone s work as well as generational peers of hers such as katy lederer and lisa jarnot but on this particular day that i sat down to write this post the anterior american female poet in my mind was not dickinson but an even earlier figure annis boudinot stockton who may well be to the late eighteenth century what dickinson was to the mid nineteenth or anne bradstreet was to the seventeenth and is it thus the dear illusive dream of social bliss and happiness serene must vanish quite dissolved in empty air and leave my heart a prey to pangs severe importantly stockton is not just writing an elegy for another woman ann meredith hill itself rare at a time when the elegy form was dominated by young men mourning their young male peers edward king keats hallam but an elegy for mrs hill spoken in the voice of her sister mrs clymer stockton like dickinson is always personal yet not always autobiographical this totally fortuitous juxtaposition enhanced my sense of the dramatic tectonics of firestone s book in which so often a female persona is evoked who is observed or watched or commented upon a first person plural chorus as in yesteryears days seemed long a ball upon her very neck we were there saying come what you are we were there saying the we could be the mourners and the her the mourned object but the her could just as well be the speaker of the poems and the we the audience this indeterminacy about who is speaking and who is echoing who is acting and who is contemplating she authenticates herself unknowingly she has laid her vision bare we collaborate our chorusing she has laid her vision bare there is also a constant alteration between past and present tense which further ramifies the state of the action at one minute we are face to face with the she or alternately the speaker is face to face with the observed or mourned object at another we are commenting or the speaker is noting a recorded past perhaps more a near past than a deep past but a time sufficiently lapsed so as to have its consequences recognized yes you just say it she is just one body hardly there we can say field and feel it because we did not designate the sky turned pages and the language rained we do not hesitate we did not designate but do not hesitate why is one verb in the past and one the present does it have something to do with the she being incarnate and yet also evanescent yet the non designation is presented as enabling because we did not designate the field we can say the word field and feel it entering into a surreal release of signification where we do not hesitate breakdown dissolution can liberate the latch of this is broken the latch of this is open in other words something done in the past has enabled something done in the present elsewhere though the event in the past seems to have been tragic catastrophic or at least precipitating a diminution as seen near the end of the volume we are in this time all has been done and then on the next page of poetry there is she who is here in our space so near there is she who is here in our space so near her work may or may not have gone to waste her waste is re defining as this night star sun the easiest way to read this is as about a person who has died with the we are the mourners but this is not exclusive or denotatively confining because the she is so elusive and her presence even if altered or re formed still so felt again we see the alternation between the present and past tense there is a possibility of seeing the past tense as the gate and the present as the field certainly gates are closed and fields are open gates material and fields ideal as a field is really a human perception of space on a natural tableau gates fixed and fields fluid the late japanese american artist minoru kawabata had a similar dichotomy in his images of gates and robes which for him were tantamount to objective and subjective but firestone s dichotomy of gates and fields is a bit more elusive both pertain to death the gates to hell but also the elysian fields if fields are the afterlife gates as the transition point to the afterlife at least have the tangible link to life of marking life s ending the proximity of a portal the various shapes are we collecting down the trees we will come from the leaves down the trees we are more confident in this space than she we impress ourselves this way our perception is the light the light in almost any other context the last line would be a visionary affirmation and the words shine with a spiritual intensity but here it is a sign of a diminution or perhaps more a substitution our perception must needs be the light that the she has once been or more convincingly our perception was once the she but is now reduced to the light as a stand in a vicarious absence also notable is the inverted syntax of various shapes are we collecting down the trees where conventionally it should be we are collecting the various shapes though it would typically be not down the trees but from the trees the inversion diminishes our agency makes us random vagabonds among the trees rather than exercising dominion or decision in them there is determination in our stance here but also some presumptuousness our confidence and love of impressing ourselves makes us almost blunderers we are more confident in this space than she but not more dignified or more present and if the she is indeed dead that we are more confident in this space than she is not so much an inability to admit her passing but a tender acknowledgment that at once she is still there perceptually and that her absence means so much that we cannot say it other than decorously timorously for all the abstract musings the reader must make about tone stance and address it is very important to note that gates fields is a narrative a story it is a story without names or characters or places a story without context but nonetheless a story a chronicle of what has happened with a gap between past and present that complicates the translucency and intuitiveness of the pure lyric utterance the english language as contrasted especially to french has had trouble establishing genres that are in between fiction and poetry yet for all this book s homage to dickinson and genuine lineage in her vein firestone s work inhabits this expansive and elusive middle realm between lyric and narrative presently attend to this whole space not a designated marker posted by nicholas birns at 9 32 am 1 comment friday february 24 2017 ernest chanes 1923 2017 regarding our friend ernest chanes ernie or ernest as he was known to his adoring wife had a number of friends that he fervently admired but he always turned to his beloved wifejosely before he made any big decisions josely was a gifted artist with an international following as well as a highly sought after chatelaine gracing many wonderful warm hearted gatherings ernie also loved the devotion of his affable stepson emiliano saxe who came into his life decades ago and gave ernie another figure to cherish among ernie s primary relationships was that of his devoted irish setter mitzu who historically was devoted to ernie and loved to range mountain peaks on weekends while mitzu was given the decision to periodically crash in and out of our weekend home only to drift off on an overnight sojourn through the woods throughout all of this the dog saw to it that ernie never left her side when a man and his dog would afterward return home it was to heal their wounds after a blissful romp across in the countryside and then there was the council on hemispheric affairs coha our organization which focuses on progressive human rights and policy issues throughout latin america ernie was involved with coha almost from the beginning since the first faltering steps that the organization managed to take starting in the early 1970s at the time of his death he was serving as coha s secretary as well as a member of its executive committee ernie was also a well seasoned chef a spectacular sailor a resolute hiker and a devoted brazilianist a convivial host he presided over a table that hosted a variety of interests meanwhile josely was pugnacious in her determination not to be lead astray as she resolutely pursued her art her career her marriage her family and her culture she had talked about her art long before anyone knew precisely what she was talking about through all of her crusades ernie was always by her side dutifully toting around her illustrations for the many shows in which she participated ernest chanes was a person whom i lived in close quarters with for decades at these distances his importance to coha went far beyond his role as one of its ranking officials and a critical funder he was at the core of the organization s soul with passion he monitored events circulating around cuba was a lion for insisting that coha beernest was a proudly generous person who welcomed perplexing moments that would eventually be reconciled by his immense intellectual hunger for new ideas in almost every facet of his star studded life he was on the right side of history every time and brought a barrel of creative ideas for policy initiatives to the table at any particular time but somehow he added much more to the organization than had just been suggested by these bits and strands of endless recollections he was committed to fighting battles that he instinctively knew represented the right side of the good fight for ernie there was a series of grandiose struggles that would help define and even consume his imagination he was willing to embrace coha s mettle on all occasions and to give voice to the worthiness of the organization that at times stood empty handed before the media on whatever issue revealed its sense of moral value in addition to joining in the war of ideas that colored allende s struggle in chile against pinochet ernest fought with passion against argentina s general videla and the military regime that repressed the likes of allende s dignity and prevented the dousing of the constitutional veneer which was ripped away from the bolivarians who temporarily lay decimated throughout a battered latin america but everything was in place with ernie who we so greatly loved and admired and who revered everyone in return ernie was a giver who always opted for life he grew up in a depression era culture where funds always fell short but that was more than compensated by the beautiful life and people with whom he surrounded himself ernie was known as a man who could unite others by invoking rational solutions in favor of peace and humanity he was determined to keep the torch of progressivism be held aloft a mile high and to be thrust even further into the open hands of another human being ernie will not allow any of us to forget our duties of course he never did and we hope that brazil proves to be worthy enough to share custody of part of his being from the chanes carvalho household ernest chanes activist included in the nixon s enemy list dies at 93 in rio de janeiro ernest chanes passed away at home in leblon rio de janeiro on february 8 2017 he will be remembered for his ethics compassion intelligence and memorable beard lincoln style unforgettable laugh and a list of causes and endeavors that could fill several lifetimes born on june 13 1923 to russian jewish immigrants he grew up in the bronx during the depression after the early loss of his father he helped his mother and sister by fishing and selling fish from door to door he graduated from city college of new york with a degree in mechanical engineering during world war ii he helped design rockets in the organization that later become nasa he started three successful businesses including consolidated water conditioning and chemtech an environmental water laboratory his activism ranged from voter registration in mississippi to progressive causes in cuba he participated in freedom summer in 1964 joining hunger strikes and creating a bond project to liberate imprisoned young african americans as civic leader in his local progressive democratic club the village independent democrats during vietnam war he won a coveted spot on president nixon s enemies list in 1973 as a board member of the center for cuban studies he went to cuba in 1972 to assist the government with a clean water project at the invitation of fidel castro s brother organized a conference in the u s congress to encourage relations between cuba and u s he was on executive committee of the national emergency civil liberties and the center for constitutional rights in 1975 chanes provided assistance to larry birns in founding the council on hemispheric affairs coha an independent research and information organization established for human rights in latin america a more us attitude towards the region chanes remained on the board of coha until his death a swimmer a foodie a traveler and a dog lover most recently best friend to a black standard poodle named xica in his later years he divided his time between new york city and rio de janeiro in brazil his wife s birth country he is survived by his great love companion of 41 years the artist josely carvalho of new york and rio by his son emiliano saxe his wife irma his grandchildren ibrahim and elias of california his niece ilene price and her three children adam alexis and amanda posted by nicholas birns at 7 56 am 1 comment monday january 16 2017 manchester by the sea and jaroslav halák saw manchester by the sea a moving engrossing film full of trauma and sorrow casey affleck did a great job of acting affectless and matthew broderick had a hilarious bit part as an evangelical christian well acted well directed well scored i do hear the critics who thought it universalized while male experience a bit too much the funny thing is though the movie set in 2015 featured an old clip of hockey goaltender jaroslav halák a star when the clip was filmed now a failed and humiliated figure i noticed this and then after the movie two guys behind me could only talk about halák and i turned around and said i had noticed it to two hours of moving story and all three men in a well heeled culturally sophisticated part of manhattan could talk about was this odd hockey detail i n a way the hockey issue brings up the problem of normed white masculinity that alicia christoff brings up in her essay from the other end that perhaps the film so assumes a model...