Last month, I talked with Kristina Marie Darling over email about her new book Compendium (Cow Heavy Books, 2011)—topics ranged from the Romantic fragment to mourning rituals to collaboration to erasure. Darling is also the author of the poetry collection Night Songs (Gold Wake Press, 2010). She has been awarded fellowships from Yaddo, the Ragdale [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Surrealism’
An Interview with Yuriy Tarnawsky, Part 2
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 6x0, Afternoons in Poughkeepsie (Popoludni v Pokipsi), An Idealized Biography (Idealizovana biohrafija), André Breton, Apollonian, Artificial Intelligence, Blood of a Poet, Bourbaki, César Vallejo, computers, Dionysian, dreams, Eero Saarinen, electrical engineering, Eugene Jolas, FC2, Federico García Lorca, Fiction Collective, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Georges Perec, I Don't Know (Ne znaju), IBM, Jacques Roubeau, Jean Cocteau, Life in the City, Life: A User’s Manual, linguistics, machine translation, Marcel Benabou, Memories (Spomyny), Meningitis, morphology, New York University, Nikolai Gogol, Orphée, Oulipo, Pablo Neruda, Poems About Nothing and Other Poems on the Same Subject (Poeziji pro nishcho i inshi poeziji na cju samu temu), Rafael Alberti, Roads (Shljaxy), Ron Sukenick, running, Russian, Salvador Dalí, Suchasnist Publishers, Surrealism, syntax, The Possessed (Besy), They Don't Exist (Jix nemaje), This Is How I Get Well (Oto jak zdrowjeje), Three Blondes and Death, U ra na, Ukraine, Vicente Aleixandre, Vicente Huidobro, Without Anything (Bez nichoho), Yuriy Tarnawsky on March 19, 2011 | 11 Comments »
Part 1 Let’s back up a bit. When did you move to the US? I came to this country in 1952, having left Germany at age 17. My 18th birthday I celebrated on the boat a week before landing in New York. I had just graduated from High School. This was in February, and in [...]
Queer Studies and Surrealism
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged André Breton, Claude Cahun, Louis Aragon, Madder Love: Queer Men and the Precincts of Surrealism, Peter Dubé, Pierre Molinier, Queer Studies, Rene Crevel, Surrealism on October 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“A Queer Frame of Mind” (an introduction to Madder Love: Queer Men and the Precincts of Surrealism) by Peter Dubé is an interesting essay about the convergences of queer sexuality, Gay liberationist theory, and the Surrealist Movement. The article addresses a particular strand of Gay liberationist theory that “represented for [him] the culture of desire [...]