If I Am A Musical Thinker is a statement of the aesthetic, social, and spiritual credo of the influential American composer and writer Benjamin Boretz. Boretz proposes that artistic expression answers primal human needs for experiencing identity through articulation in artistic media; and further, that theoretical reflection is constructively or deconstructively crucial to expression and is itself expressive in nature. In keeping with this view, the author has created a discursive form peculiar to this statement, composing textual, graphic, and typographical material into a manifesto embodying his evolving position. Boretz founded and, until recently, edited perhaps the foremost journal of contemporary music theory and analysis, Perspectives of New Music.

If I Am A Musical Thinker

Arts & Photography

Boretz, Benjamin

Individual Artists

Station Hill Press

Narrative Unbound is the first full-scale interpretation of the verbal text of Blake's most complex long poetic prophecy, The Four Zoas. Never engraved or published in the poet/artist's lifetime, the poem remains in a single manuscript, apparently unfinished and heavily revised, and yet is widely celebrated as one of Blake's most powerful narrative works. Ault challenges the view that the poem is intrinsically incomplete and flawed, arguing instead that the famous difficulties of the text are aspects of Blake's transformative narrative strategies. By respecting the integrity of Blake's work, taking every written mark on the page as potentially functional, Ault shows how the intricate interweaving of narrative patterns and interruptions are instrumental to conscious reading. The poetic intent is nothing less than a complete renovation of the reading experience, the potential of which is the realization of what Blake has called Four-fold vision. Ault's approach serves as a guide both to reading The Four Zoas and to participating in a radical poetic method.

NARRATIVE UNBOUND: Re-Visioning William Blake's The Four Zoas (Clinamen Studies)

Literature & Fiction

Ault, Donald

History & Criticism

Being Form'D: Thinking Through Blake's Milton

This exemplary philosophical reading of Milton is going to make a tremendous change in Blake's criticism. It will take a while to digest, and critics without a firm grounding in philosophy will find it difficult to follow some of the time. Yet the careful reader of Bracher, who accepts his careful definitions and consistent employment of concepts and terms, will find aspect after aspect of the poem clarified and its whole argument and message made plain.. A landmark of modern scholarship! -David V. ErdmanBeing Form'd opens truly new perspectives upon the primal ground not only of Blake's revolutionary imaginative vision but also upon that new apocalypse which is simultaneously a reversal of the western consciousness and a new birth of a universal vision and consciousness. -Thomas J.J. Altizer

BEING FORM'D: Thinking Through Blake's Milton

Bracher, Mark

Faust Foutu (Faust Screwed) is a satire featuring a mid-20th-century Faust as a bourgeois artist "suffering" for his art. It was first performed by poets and painters in San Francisco in 1955. The book includes drawings by the poet made to accompany the printed text. "In the early fifties the art of painting was at the cutting edge (Clyfford Still, Pollock, Rothko) it's not surprising that this "screwed" Faust is a painter or that a public reading and performance of the piece should have taken place at San Francisco's most intensely avant garde art gallery, the Six Gallery. It's no surprise either that the actors in the presentation, seated at a long table on a little dais, should be friends, actors, experimental film-makers, poets, painters, and playwrights. Poet Jack Spicer leaned towards the audience at moments with intensity and almost boyish innocence of expression and near harshness of diction. Larry Jordan, the film-maker, had been encouraged by Duncan to just sing loudly and naturally letting his untrained voice carry Faust's songs. Painter, and life-friend of Duncan's, Jess Collins, spoke his lines with immense clarity and irony. The play was being tested on the ear, there was no acting-out as Duncan did in his solo performances, this was to be heard and, listen, it's still sounding." -Michael McClure Robert Duncan s "comic masque" Faust Foutu was first performed in 1955 and published in a small edition in 1960 with drawings by the poet, reproduced here in a trade edition.

FAUST FOUTU

Duncan, Robert Edward

Dramas & Plays

HANKY OF PIPPIN'S DAUGHTER

Waldrop, Rosmarie

United States

The Cycle Of Day And Night by Namkhai Norbu is a practical guide to a fundamental practice of the Dzogchen system of Tibetan Buddhism, presented in a clear and direct manner, written by an acknowledged contemporary master of this ancient tradition. Central to Dzogchen, the Great Perfection, is contemplation-the immediate experience of the primordial state of the individual, the unconditioned nature of the mind. This nature of the mind transcends the specific contents of mind, the incessant flow of thoughts reflecting our social, cultural, and psychological conditioning. Based on the teaching by Garab Dorje, the first human master of the Dzogchen lineage, The Cycle Of Day And Night gives a translation of the author's Tibetan Text, together with a commentary drawn from the author's extensive oral explanations. Actual methods are given for entering into contemplation and integrating it with our activities during the 24 hour cycle of day and night. Midwest Book Review

Cycle of Day and Night

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Norbu, Namkhai

Alternative Medicine

Criticism. Bibliography. This amazing "codebook" by Frances Phipps (a pseudonym of Frances Boldereff -- see CHARLES OLSON AND FRANCES BOLDEREFF in this catalog), is a self-proclaimed "guided reading of FINNEGAN'S WAKE, with 135 illustrations, showing the book's simple and elegant pattern inspired in Joyce by two visionary cosmologies: the poetic Prophecies of William Blake and the Egyptian Myth of Osiris."

LET ME BE LOS

Phipps, Frances

British & Irish

1st Edition, Station Hill Press, Berrytown, New York, 1986, 256 p., hardback w/dust jacket. Dust jacket illustration: detail from 'Oh those reds..etc 1969-73' by Tom Phillips. ISBN on dust jacket differs from copyright page. From the dust jacket: This book is about collecting fine art. "A work of art," says Walter D. Bannard, the artist, "is a coherent physical entity put before a special apperception called taste." An object becomes collectible as art when it is declared and accepted as art. Can the collecting of fine art be a profitable investment? Blending his own experiences with specific down-to-earth suggestions, Martin A. Ackerman tells us that the successful collector is one who can find a way to improve his own experience in looking. Collecting for profit, he says, is not about buying and selling fine art but knowing what to buy. But in order to know what to buy, one must improve his own experiences in learning how to look. One must become a visually literate person. In the end, Ackerman suggests that, once the mind and the eyes start to work together, you develop an experience of taste - that is, a power to discern and appreciate whatever constitutes the best. Martine A. Ackerman gained national attention by winning control of the Curtis Publishing Company. Ten years ago, the flamboyant wheeler-dealer traded in his New York law practice, his Lear Jet, and various other baubles for his life in the not-so-fast land and a chance to pursue his growing interest in art. Today, he's a world renowned authority on the subject, a legal advisor to both artists and dealers, and a noted patron of the arts.

SMART MONEY AND ART

Ackerman, Martin

Business of Art

Examines the responses of the body to touch and discusses methods for using touch as therapy for the mind and body

Job's Body: A Handbook for Bodywork

Deane Juhan

Exercise & Fitness

Returning from India in 1983, haunted by geometric relationships between economies and persons, by images of new ways of being alive that he had seen, Robert Kelly began this long poem. The Persian Gulf, the oil wars we inhabit, transgression and invasion, are motives as the text tries to escape the false comforts of continuity and reach the space that opens between words.

FLOWERS OF UNCEASING COINCIDENCE

Kelly, Robert

Poetry

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