MARISOL, 1930-2016. You chain-smoked your way into the deepest dark or perhaps you didn't. Perhaps it crashed down to forgetting from one day to the next; not what the obit cited, but between the lines: The pneumonia of forgetting. Not all of life that much of what remained for you. What was remaining that would remember you? All those days remaining, forgetting little or as much. The loneliness and longing converging on you in a quietude, lost in your forgetting, your wanderlust, your wanderings, your daydreams anticipating night. Those dreams, sleepless and forgetting, wading your way into a driftwood tide a morning's summer light, towards everyone and everything that you remember. Those many rooms and many voices. GERARD MALANGA About the Author Gerard Malanga was born in the Bronx in 1943. His previous books of poetry are No Respect: New & Selected Poems 1964-2000 (Black Sparrow Press, 2001), and Archives Malanga (Waverly Press, 2011), a 4-volume set of fanzines comprising new poems and non-fiction. An accomplished photographer as well, his first monograph, Resistance to Memory , appeared in 1998 with an introductory essay by Ben Maddow, and a poem by Thurston Moore, followed by Screen Tests Portraits Nudes 1964-1996 (2000), Someone’s Life (2009), Souls (2010), Ghostly Berms (2012) and Photobooths (2013). Long Day's Journey into the Past, Gunnar B. Kvaran Speaks with Gerard Malanga, was published by the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art & Skira in Oslo (2008), and Gerard Malanga, a biography by Lars Movin was published in Copenhagen (2011). He is presently at work on his memoirs, In Remembrance of Things Past. Gerard Malanga lives with his cats, Sasha, Zazie, Xena and Mishkin in upstate New York. His website is gerardmalanga.net more: GERARD MALANGA & PATRICK MODIANO IN PARIS BUFFETED BY DARKENED RAINS & WHIRLING SHADOWS
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PATRICK MODIANO It was this and that and the other. It was another of those dog day August afternoons in Paris. The streets emptied and those last-known addresses with their outstretched ghosts. It was those empty Metro stops in the midnight hour. Those clanging auto shoppes. Young girls skipping rope. Who was the first to die? Who was the last if such a last would come undone, but for an instant. So many names go up in smoke. So many sidewalks reflect the smoke. So many times we’ve settled at the Flore exchanging anecdotes until it’s time for turning corners, heading home, buffeted by darkened rains, by whirling shadows GERARD MALANGA, from Whisper Sweet Nothings & Other Poems (Bottle of Smoke Press, 2017) About the Author Gerard Malanga was born in the Bronx in 1943. His previous books of poetry are No Respect: New & Selected Poems 1964-2000 (Black Sparrow Press, 2001), and Archives Malanga (Waverly Press, 2011), a 4-volume set of fanzines comprising new poems and non-fiction. An accomplished photographer as well, his first monograph, Resistance to Memory , appeared in 1998 with an introductory essay by Ben Maddow, and a poem by Thurston Moore, followed by Screen Tests Portraits Nudes 1964-1996 (2000), Someone’s Life (2009), Souls (2010), Ghostly Berms (2012) and Photobooths (2013). Long Day's Journey into the Past, Gunnar B. Kvaran Speaks with Gerard Malanga, was published by the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art & Skira in Oslo (2008), and Gerard Malanga, a biography by Lars Movin was published in Copenhagen (2011). He is presently at work on his memoirs, In Remembrance of Things Past. Gerard Malanga lives with his cats, Sasha, Zazie, Xena and Mishkin in upstate New York. His website is gerardmalanga.net |
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