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A biographical introduction is a moving and illuminating study of the family and environment that inflluenced Patchen and a touching study of the love and dedication between Kenneth and Miriam Patchen. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Edited by Irene Gammel and Suzanne Zelazo. Florine Stettheimer (1871-1944) was an American modernist of German-Jewish heritage living in New York. She was a painter, designer, and poet. Together with her sisters Ettie and Carrie, Stettheimer hosted a legendary salon on the Upper West Side, where they entertained the likes of Marcel Duchamp, Carl Van Vechten, Henri McBride, and Georgia O'Keeffe. In 1934 Stettheimer designed the set and costumes for Gertrude Stein's opera Four Saints in Three Acts to much acclaim. In 1949, Ettie collected Florine's poems in CRYSTAL FLOWERS, a privately printed, elegant edition of 250. In addition to these rare poems, this new volume offers formerly unpublished material culled from archives, including three new poems and Stettheimer's libretto for her ballet ?Orphee of the Quat-z-arts.? Gammel and Zelazo have re-situated this overlooked poet among her modernist sisters, presenting her as an important practitioner of a modernism that integrates...

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Karl Riha edited the series that included this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Marvin and Ruth Sackner are recognized as one of the top (Jewish) 100 American art collectors. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Amazon.com: M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village cafe where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. Through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality, past and present, and across a landscape of creative aspirations and inspirations, we travel to Frida Kahlo's Casa Azul in Mexico; to a meeting of an Arctic explorer's society in Berlin; to a ramshackle seaside bungalow in New York's Far Rockaway that Smith acquires just before Hurricane Sandy hits; and to the graves of Genet, Plath, Rimbaud, and Mishima. Woven throughout are reflections on the writer's craft and on artistic creation. Here, too, are singular memories of Smith's life in Michigan and the irremediable loss of her husband, Fred Sonic Smith. Braiding despair with hope and consolation, illustrated with her signature Polaroids, M Train is a meditation on travel, detective shows, literature, and coffee. It is a...

Scope and Contents Amazon.com: M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village cafe where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. Through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality, past and present, and across a landscape of creative aspirations and inspirations, we travel to Frida Kahlo's Casa Azul in Mexico; to a meeting of an Arctic explorer's society in Berlin; to a ramshackle seaside bungalow in New York's Far Rockaway that Smith acquires just before Hurricane Sandy hits; and to the graves of Genet, Plath, Rimbaud, and Mishima. Woven throughout are reflections on the writer's craft and on artistic creation. Here, too, are singular memories of Smith's life in Michigan and the irremediable loss of her husband, Fred Sonic Smith. Braiding despair with hope and consolation, illustrated with her signature Polaroids, M Train is a meditation on travel, detective shows, literature, and coffee. It is a...

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The poems are most likely autobiographical in content. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The text appears to be short biographies of European poets and artists. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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An illustrated article in this newsletter features Tom Phillips appointment as Director's Visitor at the Instiute. Stored with Tom Phillips material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book was first published in 1908. Davies was a neighbor of John Furnival and there are several drawings and prints by Furnival held by the Sackner Archive that depict him and his house. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a new, revised edition of a book first published in 1970. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Young has written a poetic biography of the artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat.From Publishers Weekly: In this thick volume of 117 lean-lined poems, Young reanimates Jean-Michel Basquiat, the much-documented painter, graffiti artist and art world martyr who overdosed in 1988 at age 27. Unlike the salacious biographies, however, this epic is impressively faithful to its subject's obliquely political style and preoccupations: "Basquiat scrawls/ & scribbles, clots/ paint across/ the back/ wall of Keith Haring's/ Cable Building studio / two cops, keystoned,/ pounding a beat,/ pummel/ a black face scape/ goat, sarcophagus / uniform blue." By and large, the poems are ekphrastic, addressing particular Basquiat works and often incorporating Basquiat's painted texts into the poems (with the former often out-performing the latter), disturbing the neat division between homage and appropriation: "Andy's already bit/ the dust/ & Basquiat's just/ about to DEBT (SIC)/PISS PASSPORT/ FREE KIT...

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The title of this book of non-fictional essays stems from Burciaga's parents pronunciation of the preamble to the American constitution while studying for citizenship, "We the People..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.