Lester Aflick ‘I Dream About You Baby’
Fly By Night Press is proud to announce the publication of I Dream About You Baby, poems by Lester Afflick.
Book release Party July 19th 2008 4-5:30 pm @ The Bowery Poetry Club- Readers TBA
“Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or Kind”
From Fly by Night Press
Chavisa Woods
“Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or Kind”
$14.95 195 pages available for order on amazon.com and at any Bookstore in the U.S.A.
Cai Guo-Qiang Retrospective at the Guggenheim Review and Interview by Robyn Hillman-Harrigan
Visionary, rabble-rouser, contemporary artist, Cai Guo-Qiang is the first Chinese artist to have a major retrospective at New York’s Guggenheim Museum. In his artist’s toolbox are explosives, gunpowder, yak skin, live snakes, wooden arrows, real cars, life-like replicas of tigers and wolfs, and trenched up sunken ships. Witness the spectacle created by this modern day alchemist[…]
Patricia Spears Jones’ Femme Du Monde Review by Soraya ShalforooshPatricia Spears Jones’ second collection Femme du Monde is a passport into the soul of a sophisticated lady, a rich and engaging interior voice that explains her journey inward, outward.
We embark on Patricia Spears Jones’s journey at a place physically and metaphorically called “Hope,” Arkansas. The young college student with her mates on their […]
RICHARD PRINCE at the GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM by Emil Memon
Richard Prince one man show at Guggenheim is a massive affair. The show consists of different cycles of artists work, his famous cowboys, biker chicks, car hoods sculptures, nurse paintings,DeKooning paintings, check paintings, black and white; color paintings, celebrity publicity assemblages etc…. Walking up the spiral of Guggeneheim in a chronological order you immerse yourself into his world, which supposed to be a pure concentration of American pop culture[…]
Review of the Conceicao Evaristo’s Brazilian novel “Poncia Vicencio” by Thatiana SantosBOOK REVIEW (Portuguese)
O romance afro-brasileiro relata a história da infância e vida adulta de Ponciá Vicêncio, menina pobre que nasceu e cresceu em uma pequena cidade chamada Vicêncio (nome do antigo dono de terra) com seus pais e o irmão Luandi Vicêncio.
Review of Scott Hicks’ “Glass” by Tom SavageAbout The Omnipresent Phillip Glass
Glass: A Portrait in Twelve Parts, a film produced and directed by Scott Hicks
This excellent documentary/interview film with and about Phillip Glass going down the Astroland roller coaster in Coney Island with a smile on his face. All those years of involvement with Buddhism and other spiritual traditions would seem to have paid off. But why subject one’s life to danger gratuitously? The question is neither asked nor answered. Glass claims not to be a Buddhist. Nevertheless he has a Buddhist teacher named Gelek Rinpoche and is on the boards of numerous Buddhist organizations including Tibet House and a magazine I get four times per year about Buddhist topics called Tricycle. The film features Chuck Close, the famous artist who paints portraits mostly in black dots that look like blown up photographs. Close has known Glass for many years[…]
(In Memory Of) Lester Afflick 10/1/00 by Bob Holmanuddling poets inside dark perfect sunday fall warm
day outside beauty we gather inside lester late the late
lester in the middle a poem that doesn’t quite start
is scratched out xxxs doesn’t quite end what you
thought what you taught what you suspired
stood for your ground some soaring rarely — cynic
died of poverty died of overdose of love […]
Poem by Lester Afflick: PearlOcean on my tongue. Small boats
succoring on the gristle of ocean.
Dark brine. They’re dragging
the nets up from the sea […]
The Fade of Charity: New Orleans’ Closed Hospital, Booker, and the Present’s Odd Friend–The Past by Brian BoylesTHE FADE OF CHARITY:
New Orleans’ Closed Hospital, Booker, and the Present’s Odd Friend–The Past
“Nothing being more certain than death and nothing more uncertain than its hour…”
So begins the holographic will of Jean Louis, a sailor who died in 1736 and left the seed money for the first Charity […]
Reflections on John Cage by Aaron HayesThe first time we encounter John Cage, we think that he is somewhat interesting.
Teaching a music appreciation class to a small group of high school students, I performed 4′33″ for them one day outside. About 30 seconds into the first movement, one of them said, ‘oh, I get it.’ Still, I think there is […]
Obama’s speech on raceNPR link
Being in a Lone Space, Surbone & Ross at TRIBES(Also available on artreview.com, Yahoo Video, and blip.tv)