Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

. . .and I hasten to add, that what should be gathered from my post is a gratitude for the Bukowski-ese version of "how it is" (Beckett) and NOT an "accusation" of, or even allusion to "lesbianism" as a state of either grace or damnation. What I wish to say is that it has been a privilege to read wh...

In reading this powerful and articulate screed from a person I assume to be a young woman, I am reminded of an old student of mine. Her name was Karyn ( or at least that's what I'm calling her here.) The name is phoney, but the young lady was not). She had a SAG ( Screen Actor's Guild) card and had ...

Dear cyberfriends: Just this morning, LR, I was reading this interview with Ram Dass: http://www.greatmystery.org/interviewrd.html Now 70 and confined to a wheelchair because of a stroke, he is still teaching the "in the moment" philosophy and "slow consciousness." I bring him up because, as a repre...

My grateful thanks to all the readers who have commented on these poems.

(Glorious Amok: Check my post to you on the "Talk to Me About Music" thread")

Your fellow scribbler,


--Zlatko

Dear Glorious: I visited Halifax in 1986 on a much-needed sabbatical from teaching introductory classes in English Literature. It was a greenish-blue beautiful saltwashed and foggy coast town when I arrived in April. The bus ride into the city from the airport was a midnight odyssey. I had friends w...

Dear LR:


This is a very able commentary. Your style is streamlining as you ply your craft.


--Z

The first sentence in my post is composed of a title and a second clause ( the first line of the post). The title didn't appear: It should read: "The piano is my favorite instrument. But I can't play it worth beans." After forty years of performing music, I didn't want to say I couldn't play MUSIC w...

But I can't play it worth beans. I began on classical guitar at age 18 and took lessons from several teachers. At nearly 60 my fingernails are so brittle I can't keep them properly and get a decent sound from nylon any more. One of my great heroes is the Australian guitarist John Williams. And not j...

a lovely "lawless" composite, lawless.

Nevertheless, they obey all the "laws" of self-portraiture.

(of which, of course, there aren't any . . .)

Really terrific, spontaneous and lively work.


Zlatko

Dear Hester:


No brandy, no Miles, just cranapple juice and Schubert (played by Alfred Brendel.)

But I have been reading Marianne Moore and that wonderful, cranky, screwed-up, alcoholic genius, Elizabeth Bishop.

Zlatko

Dear Hester: It's because the wind is blowing your bugle-- a very simple explanation. Stephanie cleared it right up for me. The only way to clear things properly is to put on another pair of wool socks, take a few ( or many) sips of brandy, put on some Miles, and write a poem. I always did think you...

I find that electricians I have talked to seem to know how to connect. I like people in the trades, probably because that's where I come from-- my stratum. My father was a meat cutter. My grandparents and uncles were loggers. One of my great-grandfathers raised sheep and dogs. And Grace Cleveland, m...

Apart All of it is gone now the white floating of your shift in the dark room where I have imagined never witnessed it but confess now a grainy, pebbled kiss dampens the bare boards the candle falls on where you tread where I shall never lie. It falls into the dent in your sheets made with your own ...

All ( and LR):

Tom Dispatch outdid himself on this one.

I like the close attention to language.

(link)

http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=1694



Zlatko

LR:


I have to go with the (ze) French here. They have the best way to set Americans and English up:


"Ce depend . . ."



("It depends")



--Z