Helen Dewitt discussing her exhibition, "The Library of Helen Dewitt," at Artists Space in Soho, NYC.
Three of these photos appear in Mieke Chew's interview with Helen Dewitt for Bomb Magazine. For more about the exhibition, see Bomb http://bombmagazine.org/article/2000015/helen-dewitt or the gallery notes http://artistsspace.org/exhibitions/the-library-vaccine.
Peter Cole reading from The Invention of Influence.
Susan Howe reading from Spontaneous Particulars.
Poets Peter Cole and Susan Howe at McNally Jackson Books in Soho, New York City, November 4, 2014. On Howe: http://www.ndbooks.com/author/susan-howe/ and Cole: http://www.ndbooks.com/author/peter-cole/.
"This interview took place high above Broadway Avenue in Manhattan, one afternoon before Cohen played three sets through midnight with the Mark Turner Quartet. We sat talking on a broad windowsill and shared a good view of a neighbor’s balcony garden, still blooming big in September. About halfway through the conversation, Cohen pulled out his trumpet case to show first the silver mute he uses to practice on airplanes, then a series of four mouthpieces cut into heavy pendants. At concerts and in most photographs, you can see Cohen wearing one of these things, tied long around his neck, falling somewhere to midchest. Not just oddly beautiful, they are apparently good for buzzing, and are much his own invention, tools of the trade to keep his lips in shape."
Kiki Smith
Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge
Anne Carson
Anne Waldman
On the Bowery, NYC, September 19, 2014
"Legris anatomizes song—birdsong, but also the aspiring song of the poet. Is this an impossible task? Bones, soft tissue, and even spit can be pinpointed, but what about breath? motile air? pneuma or spirit? What about this:
Jizz of airborne lungs: venturi tube trachea; cul-de-sac lift / drag
ratio; emphysematic airflow.
– from “Lore: 7 (aspect ratio)”
The closer we get to anything in Legris’s anatomy, the more biting and mysterious it turns. True to life.
This interview took place over two spring months. Emails flew back and forth between Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, where Legris lives and writes, and West Harlem."