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In "stories, poems, song lyrics & remembrances," the sentimental, magnanimous, ebullient and sorrowful Elmslie (Nite Soil) offers a winning homage to his many longstanding intimates, living and dead, in the New York School. Frank O'Hara, Joe Brainard, John Latouche, Kenneth Koch and John Ashbery play leading and cameo roles. Under Elmslie's steady-handed humor and joie de vivre, the embarrassing, the banal, the horrific and the frivolous become momentarily beautiful, new and noteworthy: "Scent of... of...// empty elevator cages./ Face powder. Ladies./ If their slip is showing,/ it's snowing/ hyacinths, white hyacinths." His "26 I Remembers of Frank O'Hara" is especially poignant and enjoyable.
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- PublisherSkanky Possum
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0970395213
- ISBN 13 9780970395214
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages87
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Blast from the Past
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. Inscribed by poet. Cover is yellowed and lightly worn along edges. Inside is clean and unmarked. Seller Inventory # 94254
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Blast from the Past
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Book Description Trade Paperback. Condition: Fine. Tisa, Ken (illustrator). Book is as new in every respect: creaseless covers and spine, binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 87 pages. This ed. limitied to 1/1000 copies, cover art by Ken Tisa. Smells slightly of Nag Champa incense. Kenward Elmslie's poetry and prose is often combined with the graphical work of other artists. A collection of his writing, Motor Disturbance (1971), won the Frank O'Hara Award for Poetry in 1971. He was awarded the National Endowment of the Arts Award for Power Plant Sestina (1967) and the Ford Foundation Grant. In 1973 Elmslie began work as editor and publisher of Z Magazine and Z Press, working to promote the work of other New York School artists such as John Ashbery, Ron Padgett, James Schuyler, and perhaps most extensively, Ken Tisa. Elmslie s work with graphic artists such as Brainard combined poetry with art to emphasize their interconnectedness; his work in theatre demonstrates his commitment to art as a whole, not only to one medium. Seller Inventory # 147472
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Book Description Condition: Very good. Front and back cover portraits by Ken Tisa (illustrator). Kenward's reading copy with annotations in Elmslie's hand and tipped-in slips sequencing a reading order. We suspect this copy was used in preparation for a reading with Bill Berkson at the St. Marks Poetry Project on October 17, 2001. The most heavily annotated work in the book is "Fifties Probe," which Elmslie in a letter written earlier that month to Lucia Berlin references as the centerpiece of his reading, calling it "my Ashbery Roast cut a tad" (Livingston, Love, Loosha, p. 171). Perfect-bound in glossy pictorial wraps, 8vo, 87 pp. Seller Inventory # 1073
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