Tag Archives: E.E. Cummings

patchen: painting poems

Posted on January 7, 2013 by Dave

by Art Chantry: seemingly forgotten and long overlooked is kenneth patchen. this guy is one of those american originals, a guy who hacked out his own path through the wilderness and just kept hacking away his entire life. people either … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Allen Ginsberg, art chantry, Charles Mingus, E.E. Cummings, Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, John Cage, Kenneth Patchen, Kenneth Rexroth, Langston Hughes, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog | Leave a comment

spearheading

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Dave

by Jesse Marinoff Reyes (Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) Spearhead New Directions, 1947 Design: Alvin Lustig Spearhead was an anthology of the best of the New Directions annuals published between 1936-46 and from other sources. It was meant to … Continue reading →

Posted in Shake Your Hips | Tagged alvin lustig, alvin lustig design, E.E. Cummings, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Henry Miller, jack jones, James Agee, jesse marinoff reyes, new directions annuals, Tennessee Williams | Leave a comment

bundle up

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Dave

Winter is upon us. Each adapt in their own manner for better or worse. … from Jonathan Jones: Bruegel’s paintings are not just prophecies. They are recipes of adaptation, illustrating new ways to live with the cold: how to inhabit … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged aaron fogel, abraham hondius, barend cornelius koekkoek, E.E. Cummings, hendrick avercamp, John Evelyn, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Paul Kane, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Thomas Rowlandson | Leave a comment

a fire in the head: the wild tune

Posted on May 14, 2011 by tai

Writing poetry that sings by guest blogger Tai Carmen who maintains a weekly blog called Parallax:A place for dreamers Tai Carmen ( www.taicarmen.com): If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. ~ Leonard Cohen My grandfather was … Continue reading →

Posted in Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Madame Pickwick Weekend | Tagged anais nin, Arthur Rimbaud, barry spacks, E.E. Cummings, Edward Steichen, Ernest Hemingway, Leonard Cohen, Mark Twain, Robert Frost, sugar in wartime, sylvia plath, tai carmen, tai carmen parallax, W.B. Yeats, William Butler Yeats | Leave a comment

LOST GENERATION : RECLAIMED FROM THE WASTELAND

Posted on November 4, 2010 by Dave

The Lost Generation is a term used to describe a group of American writers who were rebelling against what America had become by the 1900’s. At this point in time, America had become a great place to, “go into some … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Anatole france, Archibald MacLeish, Daniel Aaron, David Sanders, E.E. Cummings, Edward Bernays, Ernest Hemingway, F.Scott Fitgerald, George Bernard Shaw, George Grosz, Gertrude Stein, Gold, Gustave Flaubert, H.G. Wells, Jackie Gross, James Joyce, Jean Paul Sartre, Jill Tripodi, John Dos Passos, Joyce Ulysses, Marcel Proust, Max Beckmann, Neil Howe, Romaine Rolland, Stephane Mallarme, T.S. Eliot, Thorstein Veblen, William Faulkner, William Strauss | Leave a comment

SILENCE FILLED WITH VIVID NOISELESS BOYS

Posted on November 4, 2010 by Dave

After graduation and on the eve of his embarkation for France as a “gentleman volunteer” ambulance driver,John Dos Passos’s letters almost exploded with rebellion. “I have been spending my time of late going to pacifist meetings and being dispersed by … Continue reading →

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LIKE CATCHING FALLING KNIVES

Posted on November 3, 2010 by Dave

…The first thing that you found about the dead was that, hit badly enough, they died like animals. Some quickly from a little wound you would not think would kill a rabbit. They died from little wounds as rabbits die … Continue reading →