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During the late 1960s, throughout the 1970s, and into the 1980s, New York City poets and musicians played together, published each other, and inspired one another to create groundbreaking art.
In “Do You Have a Band?”, Daniel Kane reads deeply across poetry and punk music to capture this compelling exchange and its challenge to the status of the visionary artist, the cultural capital of poetry, and the lines dividing sung lyric from page-bound poem.
Kane reveals how the new sounds of proto-punk and punk music found their way into the poetry of the 1960s and 1970s downtown scene, enabling writers to develop fresh ideas for their own poetics and performance styles. Likewise, groups like The Fugs and the Velvet Underground drew on writers as varied as William Blake and Delmore Schwartz for their lyrics. Drawing on a range of archival materials and oral interviews, Kane also shows how and why punk musicians drew on and resisted French Symbolist writing, the vatic resonance of the Beat chant, and, most surprisingly and complexly, the New York Schools of poetry. In bringing together the music and writing of Richard Hell, Patti Smith, and Jim Carroll with readings of poetry by Anne Waldman, Eileen Myles, Ted Berrigan, John Giorno, and Dennis Cooper, Kane provides a fascinating history of this crucial period in postwar American culture and the cultural life of New York City.
Daniel Kane is reader in English and American literature at the University of Sussex in Brighton. His books include We Saw the Light: Conversations Between the New American Cinema and Poetry (2009) and All Poets Welcome: The Lower East Side Poetry Scene in the 1960s (2003).
Title Do You Have a Band?
Subtitle Poetry and Punk Rock in New York City
Author Daniel Kane
Publisher Columbia University Press
Title First Published 25 July 2017
Format Paperback
ISBN-10 0231162979
ISBN-13 9780231162975
Publication Date 25 July 2017
Main content page count 296
Weight 16 oz.
Paperback – $30.00
296 Pages
Daniel Kane: Do You Have a Band?”: Poetry and Punk Rock in New York City
from Columbia University Press
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Woon jij in de Tilburgse Kleuren- en Kruidenbuurt? Dan nodigen ContourdeTwern en On-Site Poetry (Nick J. Swarth en Sander Neijnens) jou uit voor een bijzondere bijeenkomst op woensdag 20 september.
Onder de noemer ‘We gooien het op het woord’ wordt op speelse wijze naar boven gehaald hoe jij als bewoner de wijk ervaart.
Uiteindelijk leidt het tot een verzameling schijnbaar losse teksten, waar Nick J. Swarth een gedicht van maakt. Dat wordt, in een vormgeving van Sander Neijnens, aangebracht in de trappenhal van wijkcentrum Het Kruispunt. Zichtbaar voor alle bezoekers maar ook voor de mensen die voorbijlopen. Later dit jaar wordt het gedicht op feestelijke wijze onthuld.
De bijeenkomst vindt plaats op woensdag 20 september 2017 van 19.00–21.00 uur in het wijkcentrum aan de Sinopelstraat 1. Voor lekkere hapjes en drankjes is ook gezorgd. Je bent van harte welkom. Aanmelden is niet nodig.
Meer informatie kun je krijgen bij Joy’s van Lieshout, joysvanlieshout@contourdetwern.nl of bel: 013 4683857
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‘We gooien het op het woord’
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Sieben schizophrene Sonette
1. Der grüne König
Wir, Johann, Amadeus Adelgreif,
Fürst von Saprunt und beiderlei Smeraldis,
Erzkaiser über allen Unterschleif
Und Obersäckelmeister vom Schmalkaldis
Erheben unsern grimmen Löwenschweif
Und dekretieren vor den leeren Saldis:
“Ihr Räuberhorden, eure Zeit ist reif.
Die Hahnenfeder ab, ihr Garibaldis.
Man sammle alle Blätter unserer Wälder
Und stanze Gold daraus, soviel man mag,
Das ausgedehnte Land braucht neue Gelder.
Und eine Hungersnot liegt klar am Tag.
Sofort versehe man die Schatzbehälter
Mit Blattgold aus dem nächsten Buchenschlag.”
2. Die Erfindung
Als ich zum ersten Male diesen Narren
Mein neues Totenwäglein vorgeführt,
War alle Welt im Leichenhaus gerührt
Von ihren Selbstportraits und anderen Schmarren.
Sie sagten mir: nun wohl, das sei ein Karren,
Jedoch die Räder seien nicht geschmiert,
Auch sei es innen nicht genug verziert
Und schließlich wollten sie mich selbst verscharren.
Sie haben von der Sache nichts begriffen,
Als daß es wurmig zugeht im Geliege
Und wenn ich mich vor Lachen jetzt noch biege,
So ist es, weil sie drum herum gestanden,
Die Pfeife rauchten und den Mut nicht fanden,
Hineinzusteigen in die schwarze Wiege.
3. Der Dorfdadaist
In Schnabelschuhen und im Schnürkorsett
Hat er den Winter überstanden,
Als Schlangenmensch im Teufelskabinett
Gastierte er bei Vorstadtdilettanten.
Nun sich der Frühling wieder eingestellt
Und Frau Natura kräftig promenierte,
Hat ihn die Lappen- und Attrappenwelt
Verdrossen erst und schließlich degoutieret.
Er hat sich eine Laute aufgezimmert
Aus Kistenholz und langen Schneckenschrauben,
Die Saiten rasseln und die Stimme wimmert,
Doch läßt er sich die Illusion nicht rauben.
Er brüllt und johlt, als hinge er am Spieße.
Er schwenkt jucheiend seinen Brautzylinder.
Als Schellenkönig tanzt er auf der Wiese
Zum Purzelbaum der Narren und der Kinder.
4. Der Schizophrene
Ein Opfer der Zerstückung, ganz besessen
Bin ich – wie nennt ihr’s doch? – ein Schizophrene.
Ihr wollt, daß ich verschwinde von der Szene,
Um euren eigenen Anblick zu vergessen.
Ich aber werde eure Worte pressen
In des Sonettes dunkle Kantilene.
Es haben meine ätzenden Arsene
Das Blut euch bis zum Herzen schon durchmessen.
Des Tages Licht und der Gewohnheit Dauer
Behüten euch mit einer sichern Mauer
Vor meinem Aberwitz und grellem Wahne.
Doch plötzlich überfällt auch euch die Trauer.
Es rüttelt euch ein unterirdischer Schauer
Und ihr zergeht im Schwunge meiner Fahne.
5. Das Gespenst
Gewöhnlich kommt es, wenn die Lichter brennen.
Es poltert mit den Tellern und den Tassen.
Auf roten Schuhen schlurrt es in den nassen
Geschwenkten Nächten und man hört sein Flennen.
Von Zeit zu Zeit scheint es umherzurennen
Mit Trumpf, Atout und ausgespielten Assen.
Auf Seil und Räder scheint es aufzupassen
Und ist an seinem Lärmen zu erkennen.
Es ist beschäftigt in der Gängelschwemme
Und hochweis weht dann seine erzene Haube,
Auf seinen Fingern zittern Hahnenkämme,
Mit schrillen Glocken kugelt es im Staube.
Dann reißen plötzlich alle wehen Dämme
Und aus der Kuckucksuhr tritt eine Taube.
6. Der Pasquillant
Auch konnt es unserm Scharfsinn nicht entgehen,
Daß ein Herr Geist uns zu bemäkeln pflegt,
Indem er ein Pasquill zusammenträgt,
Das ihm die Winde um die Ohren säen.
Bald kritzelt er, bald hüpft er aufgeregt
Um uns herum, dann bleibt er zuckend stehen
Und reckt den Schwartenhals, um zu erspähen,
Was sich in unserm Kabinett bewegt.
Den Bleistiftstummel hat er ganz zerbissen,
Die Drillichnaht ist hinten aufgeschlissen,
Doch dünkt er sich ein Diplomatenjäger.
De fakto dient bewußter Schlingenleger
Dem Kastellan als Flur- und Straßenfeger
Und hat das Recht die Kübel auszugießen.
7. Intermezzo
Ich bin der große Gaukler Vauvert.
In hundert Flammen lauf ich einher.
Ich knie vor den Altären aus Sand,
Violette Sterne trägt mein Gewand.
Aus meinem Mund geht die Zeit hervor,
Die Menschen umfaß ich mit Auge und Ohr.
Ich bin aus dem Abgrund der falsche Prophet,
Der hinter den Rädern der Sonne steht.
Aus dem Meere, beschworen von dunkler Trompete,
Flieg ich im Dunste der Lügengebete.
Das Tympanum schlag ich mit großem Schall.
Ich hüte die Leichen im Wasserfall.
Ich bin der Geheimnisse lächelnder Ketzer,
Ein Buchstabenkönig und Alleszerschwätzer.
Hysteria clemens hab ich besungen
In jeder Gestalt ihrer Ausschweifungen.
Ein Spötter, ein Dichter, ein Literat
Streu ich der Worte verfängliche Saat.
Hugo Ball
(1886-1927)
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Who was the model for Edouard Degas’s world renowned sculpture of a ballet dancer? Camille Laurens embarks on a meticulous and sensitive enquiry.
Degas’s “Little Ballerina” has always been a presence for Camille Laurens. Here the novelist tells the story of the sculpture which has been exhibited in Paris, London, New York, Washington, Chicago, Copenhage, Dresden… but few know the identity of the model.
She looks into the childhood of Marie Van Goethem, born to Belgian parents, with an older sister who ended up as a courtesan, a younger sister who became a ballet teacher and a mother who died on the very premises of the Paris Opera. Dancing and prostitution. Revolution and the art world. Quite unintentionally, Marie would become one of the most discussed models, and was described as a “monkey” at the 1881 Salon des Indépendants exhibition.
How did Degas dare to make something beautiful of such an ugly child? And what mysterious connection was there between Degas and his subject, given that he kept the wax sculpture in his studio his whole life and never exhibited it? This enquiry ultimately leads Camille Laurens to a more personal quest.
Novelist, essayist and academic Camille Laurens has published some twenty books. In 2000, Dans ces bras-là won the Prix Fémina and the Prix Renaudot des Lycéens, and was translated into thirty languages. Her latest novel Who You Think I Am (Gallimard, 2016 / Other Press 2017) sold 50,000 copies in France.
La petite danseuse de quatorze ans
Camille Laurens
(Degas’s little ballerina by Camille Laurens)
Collection: La Bleue
Éditions Stock Paris
Parution: 01/09/2017
176 pages
Format:140 x 216 mm
EAN: 9782234069282
Prix: €17.50
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De internationale expositie Disruption – Remapping Nature in Tilburg is nog tot en met 24 september te bezichtigen.
Disruption focust op een aantal Europese kunstenaars, die hun licht laten schijnen op de wijze waarop de hedendaagse mens de natuur waarneemt en er zich toe verhoudt. De spanning in Disruption is vooral gelegen in de presentatie van deze reflecties in de ‘natuurlijke’ context van De Oude Warande. Waar houdt het begrip natuur op en begint de notie cultuur?
“Disruption – Remapping Nature concentreert zich op duurzaamheid, op een toekomst die alleen met gemeenschappelijke krachten tot iets vruchtbaars kan leiden. En en passant vestigt de manifestatie de aandacht op schoonheid die de natuur gratis in zich vervat houdt en waar wij meestal achteloos aan voorbij lopen. Die schoonheid kan de vorm van een beukenblad aannemen of een doodgewone slakkengang zijn.” – NRC 3 augustus 2017
Laatste weken Disruption – Remapping Nature (Lustwarande 2017)
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In popular imagination, London is a city of fog. The classic London fogs, the thick yellow “pea-soupers,” were born in the industrial age of the early nineteenth century.
The first globally notorious instance of air pollution, they remained a constant feature of cold, windless winter days until clean air legislation in the 1960s brought about their demise. Christine L. Corton tells the story of these epic London fogs, their dangers and beauty, and their lasting effects on our culture and imagination.
As the city grew, smoke from millions of domestic fires, combined with industrial emissions and naturally occurring mists, seeped into homes, shops, and public buildings in dark yellow clouds of water droplets, soot, and sulphur dioxide. The fogs were sometimes so thick that people could not see their own feet.
By the time London’s fogs lifted in the second half of the twentieth century, they had changed urban life. Fogs had created worlds of anonymity that shaped social relations, providing a cover for crime, and blurring moral and social boundaries.
They had been a gift to writers, appearing famously in the works of Charles Dickens, Henry James, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad, and T. S. Eliot. Whistler and Monet painted London fogs with a fascination other artists reserved for the clear light of the Mediterranean.
Corton combines historical and literary sensitivity with an eye for visual drama—generously illustrated here—to reveal London fog as one of the great urban spectacles of the industrial age.
Christine L. Corton is a Senior Member of Wolfson College, Cambridge, and a freelance writer. She worked for many years at publishing houses in London.
London Fog
The Biography
Christine L. Corton
Paperback – 2017
408 pages
28 color illustrations, 63 halftones
Belknap Press / Harvard University Press
ISBN 9780674979819
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Who hasn’t heard of Proust’s famous questionnaire? The writer’s answers have travelled across time and all around the world, but people have forgotten that they came from an album called Confessions that belonged to Antoinette Faure, daughter of the future French President.
Marcel Proust didn’t realize that, by taking part in what was a fashionable parlour game, he would be revealing clues about his teenage self. His answers have elicited commentaries but have never been contextualised or compared, never dated accurately.
Where and when did he answer this questionnaire? What sort of boy was he at the time? And most significantly, how much of that period and those friendships fed into his future work? What traces are left of Gilberte on the Champs-Élysées, Albertine’s little group and the “young girls in flower”?
Évelyne Bloch-Dano conducted this enquiry over many years. Using sometimes tiny clues, she managed to identify Antoinette’s other friends, some of whom may have known Proust.
A whole world came to life, revolving around the daughters of the late nineteenth-century bourgeoisie, many of them with connections to Le Havre like the Faure family. Some boys appear too. Through their ideas, their books, their customs, what they study and what they dream of, the portrait of a whole generation emerges.
Marcel Proust’s generation. Young people born to the defeat at Sedan in 1870, in a vengeful republican France. The generation of General Boulanger, of political scandal and the Dreyfus Affair, but also of schools for girls, electricity, Great Exhibitions and the Belle époque. And later the First World War.
The biographer and essayist Évelyne Bloch-Dano is the author of several prize-winning and widely translated books, including most notably biographies of Madame Zola (1997, Grand Prix of Elle readers), Madame Proust (2004, Prix Renaudot for an essay), Le Dernier Amour de George Sand (2010), but also Jardins de papier (2015), and the more personal La Biographe (2007) and Porte de Champerret (2013).
Evelyne Bloch-Dano: Une jeunesse de Marcel Proust
(Marcel Proust as a young man by Évelyne Bloch-Dano)
Collection: La Bleue
Éditions Stock Paris
Parution: 20/09/2017
304 pages
Format: 135 x 215 mm
EAN: 9782234075696
Prix: €19.50
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Wolken
elomen elomen lefitalominal
wolminuscaio
baumbala bunga
acycam glastula feirofim flinsi
elominuscula pluplubasch
rallalalaio
endremin saxassa flumen flobollala
feilobasch falljada follidi
flumbasch
cerobadadrada
gragluda gligloda glodasch
gluglamen gloglada gleroda glandridi
elomen elomen lefitalominai
wolminuscaio
baumbala bunga
acycam glastala feirofim blisti
elominuscula pluplusch
rallabataio
Hugo Ball
(1886-1927)
Wolken
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Picasso’s bicycle
The clutter was busy with itself,
dusty, rusty bits of calloused iron
struggled in the dinosaur maxim
of becoming dead skeletons
at the end of a so-so utilitarian life.
The effeminate ballroom
was not far behind, peeling
paint and whimpering plaster
on stained alabaster flooring,
the dream of luxury expiring.
The ghost of a danced waltz
in a Fin de Siècle stench spewed
to the vibration of tuneless strings.
Cobweb filled champagne bottles
sipped by drunk working class guests,
parched their sandy mouths thirsty.
The dirt filled the building slowly
travelling illegally on the back
of the Sirocco from the Levant
to leave an arid skin on every surface.
The walls bleached and blistered,
the fascias cracked and crumbled,
the Republic surrendered easily
to the upstart Spaniard’s charms
and chivvied slices of glory for him
in the ruined hypocrisy of its noblesse.
His work attested to a fall in standards
in slices of past glory, all ideas stolen
by the old devil’s goat-like desires.
The scrapyard sniggered in contempt
at the old fool, and the camera stared.
03.02.11
Vincent Berquez
Vincent Berquez is a London–based artist and poet
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A literary retrospective of a crucial period in modernism—the transition from Dada to Surrealism––via portraits and encounters with its literary lions, including Joyce, Proust, Reverdy, Apollinaire, Crevel and more by the co-founder of the Paris surrealist group.
Poet Alan Bernheimer provides a long overdue English translation of this French literary classic—Lost Profiles is a retrospective of a crucial period in modernism, written by co-founder of the Surrealist Movement.
Opening with a reminiscence of the international Dada movement in the late 1910s and its transformation into the beginnings of surrealism, Lost Profiles then proceeds to usher its readers into encounters with a variety of literary lions.
We meet an elegant Marcel Proust, renting five adjoining rooms at an expensive hotel to “contain” the silence needed to produce Remembrance of Things Past; an exhausted James Joyce putting himself through grueling translation sessions for Finnegans Wake; and an enigmatic Apollinaire in search of the ultimate objet trouvé.
Soupault sketches lively portraits of surrealist precursors like Pierre Reverdy and Blaise Cendrars, a moving account of his tragic fellow surrealist René Crevel, and the story of his unlikely friendship with right-wing anti-Vichy critic George Bernanos.
The collection ends with essays on two modernist forerunners, Charles Baudelaire and Henri Rousseau. With an afterword by Ron Padgett recounting his meeting with Soupault in the mid 70’s and a preface by André Breton biographer Mark Polizzotti, Lost Profiles confirms Soupault’s place in the vanguard of twentieth-century literature.
Philippe Soupault (1897-1990) served in the French army during WWI and subsequently joined the Dada movement. In 1919, he collaborated with André Breton on the automatic text Les Champs magnétiques, launching the surrealist movement. In the years that followed, he wrote novels and journalism, directed Radio Tunis in Tunisia, and worked for UNESCO.
Lost Profiles
Memoirs of Cubism, Dada, and Surrealism
Philippe Soupault
Translated by Alan Bernheimer
Foreword by Mark Polizzotti
Afterword by Ron Padgett
Paperback – $13.95
Pages:112 – 2016
City Lights Publishers
ISBN978-0-87286-727-7
“(…) a brief account by a perceptive writer who was on the scene when modernity was young.”, Robert Fulford
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De Uitmarkt is het startsein voor het Nederlandse culturele seizoen.
Drie dagen lang zijn er in Amsterdam voorstellingen, optredens en markten te zien van nationale culturele instellingen op het gebied van muziek, toneel, dans, cabaret, opera en ballet. Daarnaast biedt de Uitmarkt ook een voorproefje van de nieuwe tentoonstellingen, boeken, films en cross-mediale uitingen.
De Uitmarkt bestaat 40 jaar!
Dit wordt gevierd op een nieuwe locatie: op en rond het Oosterdok in Amsterdam. De Uitmarkt is hét startsein van het Nederlandse culturele seizoen.
25 -27 augustus 2017
Amsterdam – Oosterdok
3 dagen – 300+ optredens – 25 podia
Dans
Festivals
Film
Jeugd
Klassieke muziek
Gesproken woord
Populaire muziek
Tentoonstellingen en musea
Theater
De Uitmarkt is de landelijke opening van het culturele seizoen. Deze mix van theater, dans, muziek en cabaret vindt traditiegetrouw het laatste weekend van augustus plaats in Amsterdam. Niet alleen de podiumkunsten worden in de spotlight gezet. Het nieuwste van het nieuwste op het gebied van literatuur, film, museale kunst en nieuwe media is hier te ervaren. Met meer dan een half miljoen bezoekers, 2000 artiesten en 25 podia is de Uitmarkt uitgegroeid tot het grootste culturele festival van Nederland. En dat alles voor nop.
Al 40 jaar heeft de Uitmarkt maar één doel: meer mensen introduceren tot het enorme aanbod aan kunst en cultuur in Nederland. De Uitmarkt wordt georganiseerd door De Vries Producties in opdracht van Stichting Uitmarkt. Stichting Amsterdam Marketing verzorgt de redactie, publiciteit en marketing rondom de Uitmarkt.
Over 40 jaar Uitmarkt:
Met een club jonge mensen dachten we destijds na over hoe je nieuw publiek kan bereiken. Zo ontstond het idee: waarom gaan we niet de straat op? Een markt met theater, muziek, dans, podia, musea en -later- boeken. Dat was het ei van Columbus, omdat je juist op straat heel gemakkelijk tegen nieuwe dingen aanloopt. (Arthur van Schendel, mede-oprichter van de Uitmarkt)
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A wickedly funny and life-affirming coming-of-age roadtrip story – winner of France’s biggest prize for teen and YA fiction Mireille, Astrid and Hakima have just been voted the three ugliest girls in school by their classmates on Facebook. But does that mean they’re going to sit around crying about it? . . .
Well, maybe a little, but not for long! Climbing onto their bikes, the friends set off on a summer roadtrip to Paris. The girls will find fame, friendship and happiness on their journey, and still have time to eat a mountain of food (and drink the odd glass of wine) along the way.
But will they really be able to leave all their troubles behind? Piglettes is a hilarious, beautiful and uplifting story of three girls who are determined not to let online bullying get them down.
Clémentine Beauvais (born 1989) is a French children’s author living in the UK. She started reading children’s books early, and somehow never stopped. Now she writes her own, in both French and English, for a variety of ages, and is a lecturer in English and Education at the University of York.
Piglettes won four prizes in France, including the biggest children’s book prize, the Prix Sorcières. Film and stage versions are also in production. Now Clémentine has translated her book into English!
Clementine Beauvais
Piglettes
Publisher: Pushkin Children’S Books
Engelsh
288 pages
paperback
ISBN 9781782691204
june 2017
Reading age: 12 years and older
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