Hadda Brooks performing "I'm in Love" (live club performance video, 2001); "That's My Desire" (tubed audio file); "Society Boogie" (tubed audio file); Brooks's obituary from the SF Chronicle (2002); a Brooks fan site.
James Booker: "Papa Was a Rascal," live video, date not given; "Pixie," live video from 1978; "Put Out the Light," live video from 1978; "Gonzo" tubed audio file (an early hit for him, but not the same song as "Gonzo's Blue Dream").
James Booker from National Public Radio; from a newspaper profile in 2006; from Wikipedia.
David Bowie as Ziggy Stardust, live in London in 1973; the famous album cover;
Kool Keith: video for "Living Astro" ("the original black Elvis"); as Dr. Octagon in the video for "Blue Flowers"; interviewed by Narduwar the Human Serviette.
Famous schematics of slave ships.
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Sunday, December 7, 2008
john ashbery continued
A big image of Parmigianino's Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror.
Andrew Marvell's seventeenth-century poem "Tom May's Death," which begins "As one put drunk into the Packet-boat."
A selection of prose by John Ashbery now available online.
The Flow Chart Foundation's fascinating, and necessarily incomplete, catalog of other artists' later responses to Ashbery's works.
The French children's song about the famous bridge in Avingnon, and Walt Whitman's poem "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" (compare both to "Wet Casements").
What appears to be a licensed online video clip of the Warner Brothers cartoon "Daffy Duck in Hollywood," the basis for Ashbery's poem of the same name.
The Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's Modern American Poetry site has, of course, a page of comments on Ashbery.
Meghan O'Rourke of Slate: How to read John Ashbery.
Images from New York painting during the 1950s: Robert Rauschenberg's Untitled (1955). Larry Rivers' The Accident (1957). Grace Hartigan's The Vendor (1956).
Some of the art-- high and otherwise-- inside Ashbery's house. (Scroll down for more art.)
On Locus Solus, the magazine Ashbery edited from Paris in the early 1960s.
Andrew Marvell's seventeenth-century poem "Tom May's Death," which begins "As one put drunk into the Packet-boat."
A selection of prose by John Ashbery now available online.
The Flow Chart Foundation's fascinating, and necessarily incomplete, catalog of other artists' later responses to Ashbery's works.
The French children's song about the famous bridge in Avingnon, and Walt Whitman's poem "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" (compare both to "Wet Casements").
What appears to be a licensed online video clip of the Warner Brothers cartoon "Daffy Duck in Hollywood," the basis for Ashbery's poem of the same name.
The Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's Modern American Poetry site has, of course, a page of comments on Ashbery.
Meghan O'Rourke of Slate: How to read John Ashbery.
Images from New York painting during the 1950s: Robert Rauschenberg's Untitled (1955). Larry Rivers' The Accident (1957). Grace Hartigan's The Vendor (1956).
Some of the art-- high and otherwise-- inside Ashbery's house. (Scroll down for more art.)
On Locus Solus, the magazine Ashbery edited from Paris in the early 1960s.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
john ashbery
The John Ashbery Research Center, a.k.a. Flow Chart Foundation.
An ample set of writings and photographs about Ashbery's house.
Andrew Marvell's seventeenth-century poem "The Picture of Little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers."
A very non-academic edition of Ella Wheeler Wilcox's poem "Wishing."
Some poems by John Clare, and some more poems by John Clare, and a short recent review-essay about Clare's work and life.
An ample set of writings and photographs about Ashbery's house.
Andrew Marvell's seventeenth-century poem "The Picture of Little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers."
A very non-academic edition of Ella Wheeler Wilcox's poem "Wishing."
Some poems by John Clare, and some more poems by John Clare, and a short recent review-essay about Clare's work and life.
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
langston hughes: ask your mama
People named in Hughes's Ask Your Mama (incomplete list):
"Cultural Exchange": Lena Horne, Marian Anderson, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, George Schuyler, Hughes himself, Ralph Ellison, Shalom (or Sholom) Aleichem, James Baldwin, Leontyne Price, Kwame Nkrumah, Fidel Castro, Sekou Touré, Jomo Kenyatta, Martin Luther King, Rufus Clement, Governor Orville Faubus, Senator James O. Eastland
"Ride, Red, Ride": Castro, Adam Clayton Powell
"Shades of Pigment": Eastland, D. F. Malan, Lotte Lenya
"Ode to Dinah": Dinah Washington, Mahalia Jackson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, (allusion to Vachel Lindsay's "The Congo")
"Horn of Plenty": Katherine Dunham, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Eric Dolph, Billy Strayhorn, Nina Simone, Louis Armstrong, Charles Mingus, Richard Wright, Joe Glasser, Goerge Sokolsky
"Gospel Cha-Cha": Erzulie and other Haitian voodoo gods and goddesses, Toussaint L'Ouverture, Marie Laveau, John Jasper
"Is It True": Alan Lomax
"Ask Your Mama": Patrica Lumumba, Louis Armstrong, Nat "King" Cole, Touré, Emmett Till
"Bird In Orbit": Eartha Kitt, Josephine Baker, Richard Nixon, Charlie Parker, Aimé Cesaire, Leopold Sedar Senghor...
The Naropa Institute's group bloggers set out to annotate the whole of Ask Your Mama.
"Cultural Exchange": Lena Horne, Marian Anderson, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, George Schuyler, Hughes himself, Ralph Ellison, Shalom (or Sholom) Aleichem, James Baldwin, Leontyne Price, Kwame Nkrumah, Fidel Castro, Sekou Touré, Jomo Kenyatta, Martin Luther King, Rufus Clement, Governor Orville Faubus, Senator James O. Eastland
"Ride, Red, Ride": Castro, Adam Clayton Powell
"Shades of Pigment": Eastland, D. F. Malan, Lotte Lenya
"Ode to Dinah": Dinah Washington, Mahalia Jackson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, (allusion to Vachel Lindsay's "The Congo")
"Horn of Plenty": Katherine Dunham, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Eric Dolph, Billy Strayhorn, Nina Simone, Louis Armstrong, Charles Mingus, Richard Wright, Joe Glasser, Goerge Sokolsky
"Gospel Cha-Cha": Erzulie and other Haitian voodoo gods and goddesses, Toussaint L'Ouverture, Marie Laveau, John Jasper
"Is It True": Alan Lomax
"Ask Your Mama": Patrica Lumumba, Louis Armstrong, Nat "King" Cole, Touré, Emmett Till
"Bird In Orbit": Eartha Kitt, Josephine Baker, Richard Nixon, Charlie Parker, Aimé Cesaire, Leopold Sedar Senghor...
The Naropa Institute's group bloggers set out to annotate the whole of Ask Your Mama.
Monday, November 24, 2008
more on adrienne rich
Rich's biographical page at the Academy of American Poets.
"Permeable Membrane," Rich's quite recent essay on poetry-and-politics.
Whitman's "Song of Myself." (For the bit quoted in "Ghazals: Homage to Ghalib," see section 6.)
An introduction to Ghalib and some translations.
John Donne's poem "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning."
Marie Curie in brief, and again with other details.
An interview from the late 1990s.
The poet Miranda Field appreciates Rich's first book of prose, Of Woman Born.
"Permeable Membrane," Rich's quite recent essay on poetry-and-politics.
Whitman's "Song of Myself." (For the bit quoted in "Ghazals: Homage to Ghalib," see section 6.)
An introduction to Ghalib and some translations.
John Donne's poem "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning."
Marie Curie in brief, and again with other details.
An interview from the late 1990s.
The poet Miranda Field appreciates Rich's first book of prose, Of Woman Born.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
elizabeth bishop and adrienne rich
A simple map: Key West Bight.
A recent photo: lots of boats in Key West Bight.
A Key West resident on the changing bight.
View from a height, through mist, of Petropolis.
Petropolis with surroundings: high terrain.
Queen Anne's lace, close up.
Queen Anne's lace, with "drop of blood."
A recent photo: lots of boats in Key West Bight.
A Key West resident on the changing bight.
View from a height, through mist, of Petropolis.
Petropolis with surroundings: high terrain.
Queen Anne's lace, close up.
Queen Anne's lace, with "drop of blood."
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
elizabeth bishop and robert lowell
Bishop sites with potted biographies and reliable introductions: at the Academy, at the University of Illinois, and at the Poetry Foundation.
Barbara Page's Elizabeth Bishop site at Vassar College, and its comprehensive bibliography.
Bishop reads "The Armadillo."
Charles Baudelaire's sonnet "Correspondances"(compare to Bishop's "The Bight").
Elizabeth Bishop at Harvard, with audio of ten poems from North and South.
Also from the Academy, the poet and Bishop scholar Lloyd Schwartz on her recently discovered love poems, and the poet Katie Ford on Bishop and obsession.
Bishop (and Stevens and others) in Key West.
Some of the many letters between Bishop and Lowell. More of those letters, excerpted in The Believer.
Helen Vendler in the New York Review of Books on the new edition of Bishop-Lowell letters: "What was it that made 'Cal' and 'Elizabeth'... so necessary to each other's happiness?"
Dan Chiasson, in the New Yorker, on the new edition of Bishop-Lowell letters.
Christopher Benfey, in the New Republic, on the same book.
William Logan, in the New York Times Book Review, on the same book.
Adam Kirsch appreciates Lowell's last book, Day by Day.
John Palatella, in Boston Review, on Bishop's posthumously published drafts of poems.
David Orr in the NYT Book Review on the same book: "You are living in a world created by Elizabeth Bishop."
Meghan O'Rourke of Slate on the Bishop controversy.
Barbara Page's Elizabeth Bishop site at Vassar College, and its comprehensive bibliography.
Bishop reads "The Armadillo."
Charles Baudelaire's sonnet "Correspondances"(compare to Bishop's "The Bight").
Elizabeth Bishop at Harvard, with audio of ten poems from North and South.
Also from the Academy, the poet and Bishop scholar Lloyd Schwartz on her recently discovered love poems, and the poet Katie Ford on Bishop and obsession.
Bishop (and Stevens and others) in Key West.
Some of the many letters between Bishop and Lowell. More of those letters, excerpted in The Believer.
Helen Vendler in the New York Review of Books on the new edition of Bishop-Lowell letters: "What was it that made 'Cal' and 'Elizabeth'... so necessary to each other's happiness?"
Dan Chiasson, in the New Yorker, on the new edition of Bishop-Lowell letters.
Christopher Benfey, in the New Republic, on the same book.
William Logan, in the New York Times Book Review, on the same book.
Adam Kirsch appreciates Lowell's last book, Day by Day.
John Palatella, in Boston Review, on Bishop's posthumously published drafts of poems.
David Orr in the NYT Book Review on the same book: "You are living in a world created by Elizabeth Bishop."
Meghan O'Rourke of Slate on the Bishop controversy.
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