I was listening to Sufjan Stevens’ song “I Walked” on his new album The Age of Adz when it occurred to me how much in keeping his work is with the project of Romanticism. Like the Romantics, Sufjan is alienated from the values of the culture into which he happened to be born. He is [...]
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From the Barbaric Heart: Sufjan Stevens’ Vengeful Play
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Age of Adz, Beethoven, Jimi Hendrix, Nina Hagen, Plato, Plotinus, Romanticism, Shelley, Sufjan Stevens, sun ra, William Blake on April 4, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Ralph Ellison’s (not so) new novel
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bliss, Cadillac Flambé, frankz kafka, hickman, ishmael reed, john f. callahan, juneteenth, muir, ralph ellison, sonia sanchez, sun ra, sunraider on February 15, 2010 | 5 Comments »
On February 17, The Modern Library will publish Three Days Before the Shooting…: The Unfinished Second Novel (1136 pages) by Ralph Ellison, edited by Adam Bradley, coeditor of the text with John F. Callahan, who in 1999 published a much shorter version as Juneteenth (400 pages or so). And so I took a look back [...]
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