Anni Albers, 1964 If you have read my latest post you might also, like me, enjoy this excerpt from an 45 years old interview with Anni Albers (1968, July 5): ANNI ALBERS: Well, I find that Pop art or Dada have tried to get away from this fine art barrier in a very healthy way,…
Tag: Autobiography of Red
soon there will be more on red …
ROSECRANS BALDWIN: You don’t read poetry. That’s fine. Nobody does anymore. I’m not going to make you feel bad about that. But if there is one book I’ve pressed on more people in the past decade, it is Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red. And I’m here to tell you its sequel has just been published, and that…
… a leap from red to blue
After having spent several bewildering & enchanting days in company of Carson’s Autobiography of Red, I’m moving on to blue, or more precisely Bluets. Bluets, by Maggie Nelson is (if I am to be honest), in its own ways, just as amazing as Carson’s Red. This is how the publisher presents Bluets: A lyrical, philosophical, and often…
a situation of inaccessible space translated into writing
I am stumbling around with this unanswerable question: how can one translate a situation of inaccessible space into writing – Could this be a kind of answer? Huge wads of silence stuffed the air. He was staring around for the dog then realized they hadn’t had a dog for years. Clock in the kitchen said quarter…
Another red day
From far down the freeway came a sound of fishhooks scraping the bottom of the world. – Anne Carson: Autobiography of Red
At the front end of another red day
I’m back to Carson. This time reading her Autobiography of Red, a hybrid work of poetry and prose, based on Greek mythology. Autobiography of Red is in part a reinterpretation of a lost Stesichorus poem called: “Tale of Geryon“. My knowledge of Greek antiquity is limited, I know a bit about sculpture and architecture, I have read…
sub rosa 