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Script for the Film “Jean Cocteau: The First Half 1889-1929” that opened Hofstra University’s Jean Cocteau Festival 2003
One summer evening in 1912, Jean Cocteau, Ballet Russe impresario Sergei Diaghilev, and the brilliant but about to go insane dancer Nijinsky were walking home after dinner. By this point, Cocteau had already accomplished quite a lot for a 21-year-old. He had published three collections of poetry, and had designed the posters for the Ballet… Continue Reading »
Lit II: From William Wordsworth to Seamus Heaney
Published April 21, 2003 30 pages, 50 copies Given away for free to friends and others at a memorial reading for Richard Wilmarth, Penny Lane, Boulder Continue Reading »
LIT I: From Beowulf to William Cowper
Published January 17, 2003 54 pages, 24 copies Continue Reading »
Shaman: The Shaman Narrative Poems
Published December 25, 2002 26 pages, 24 copies Continue Reading »
Elegies: Parts I & II
Published December 25, 2002 38 pages, 24 copies Continue Reading »
The S.F. Notebooks
Published December 25, 2002 49 pages, 24 copies Continue Reading »
How It Happens: The NYC Notebooks
Published December 25, 2002 42 pages, 24 copies Continue Reading »
FALL: December 25, 2002
Collected work August-November 2002 Published December 25, 2002 112 pages, 12 copies Continue Reading »
October 1, 2002, Introduction to Anne Waldman’s “Battery”
I’ve been watching Anne Waldman perform for over 22 years. More than any other poet I can name, even audio recordings cannot fully capture what is unique about her performances—the sensation that neither you nor the poet herself knows exactly where she’s headed—and that at any moment any poem can (and very often does) reverse… Continue Reading »
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, August 30, 2002
My most artistic moment in the S.F. Museum of Modern Art today was in the de Kooning exhibit during a film of him explaining the procee he went through while painting “Woman II,” and I was watching it and thinking, “Okay I get it–he was painting a woman with gleaming razor white teeth and… Continue Reading »