Contemporary American poets write about authors of an earlier generation. Subjects include: John Ashbery, Emily Dickinson, Kenneth Koch, Carson McCullers, William Carlos Williams, Virginia Woolf, and Richard Wright.

Writers Writing Writers: A Pathwise Press Compilation

Literature & Fiction

James, Mike

Dalachinsky, Steve

Catlin, Alan

Draime, Doug

Freiermuth, John

United States

Pathwise Pr

Celebrated avant-jazz poet Steve Dalachinsky assembles more than thirty years of writing journals from his trips to Paris in Where Night and Day Become One. His contemplative experimental verse reflects the City of Light in boulevard rain puddles rippling with the sounds of gallery improvisation, is haunted by his ancient graveyard wanderings. In his subconscious musings, he repeats words and phrases, pulling at and twisting them as he considers the legacy of hundreds of years of expatriate art and his own unresolved past left behind in New York. With praise from Clark Coolidge, this is a career embracing retrospective that decisively stakes a claim for Dalachinsky's greatness.

Where Night and Day Become One: The French Poems

Poetry

Great Weather for Media, LLC

Poetry. THE FINAL NITE chronicles, in verse, nearly two decades of work written while listening to live performances (studio dates included) by the extraordinary musician Charles Gayle. Including every poem written under these circumstances, the poems are for the most part spontaneous compositions that reflect, respond to, or incorporate elements of Gayle's music as well as his "speeches" and "sermons" and often relate, in an "open field" manner, to the actual physical environment where the music occurred. "Dalachinsky writes free jazz. He lives the music, and his poems capture its heat and illumination"--Francis Davis. "Steve Dalachinsky is a poet of the real world in a time when reality is despised, dismissed, not understood or lied about"--Amiri Baraka.

The Final Nite & Other Poems: The Complete Notes from a Charles Gayle Notebook 1987-2006

Ugly Duckling Presse

Poetry. "This is a collection of free- wheeling improvisational linked poems written by Steve Dalachinsky & Yuko Otomo in a collaborative process. Non-Italic lines indicate Dalachinsky's writing and Italic lines indicate Otomo's. The front cover collage and all four collages inside the book were done collaboratively between Dalachinsky and Otomo. Together they visited art exhibits during the summer of 2017 and found inspiration for this book."--from the Postscript "FROZEN HEATWAVES rises from the page as a score of joyous originality. From first reading, I was drawn through the text in its entirety. Color, shape, and line build a fresh and potent linguistic surprise from artists I have long admired. Deftly composed and mutually responsive literature by these two masters reveals poetic collaboration at its finest."--Sheila E. Murphy

Frozen Heatwave

Otomo, Yuko

Luna Bisonte Prods

Poetry. Photography. Music. With photographs by Jacques Bisceglia. Steve Dalachinsky, poet and New Yorker, if there ever was one, and Jacques Bisceglia, photographer and Parisian, if there ever was one, have forever been capturing the moment. Neither the tools nor the styles are the same, only in common do they share the captured instant. From the confrontation of these snapshots came to life Reaching Into the Unknown. Through looking at the poems, through reading the pictures, you will hear the music, you will understand jazz better than by reading an informative book on the topic. Most of the musicians you will meet in there are those who have pushed, and still do so, musical expression to its utmost boundaries, on a quest for a more spontaneous, more direct, deeper-rooted music, with the capacity of sticking to the emotions, to feelings, and the most complex and contradictory human behavior. In the same respect, this book ventures into the unknown as it tells the story of life. 180 photos, 140 poems, 45 years of music.

Reaching into the Unknown: 1964-2009

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Rogue Art

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