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“Man in the Mirror” and “Time Ticks” will be published in the June issue of Contemporary Literary Review, India. Man in the Mirror is a poetic re-interpretation of the song “Man in the Mirror”, written and composed by Glen Ballard and Siedeh Garrett, and recorded by Michael Jackson in 1987. Time Ticks is some sort of dance around the theme of time, drawing from how kru fishermen treat old and out-of-use canoes.
A SPECIAL gift from neepee!
When there’s a big catch, they bring me “something”. You can call me the non-Liberian chief of Kru town!
© Clare Mackenzie
What did you mean when you called the art at your Fondation Beyeler retrospective “empty”?
JEFF KOONS: What I was speaking about is that artwork, objects, they’re transpondent. You try to pack them with information, that when somebody looks at them, they’re able to have an internal discourse, and when I say that these objects are kind of empty, what I meant is the art’s not there. The art happens inside the viewer, and these objects direct, and communicate to people, and try to manipulate how they feel about a situation, or the type of sensations that they can have. Art happens inside them. Art isn’t something that’s external. It’s always inside the person.
Source: http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/805113/art-isn’t-something-that’s-external-jeff-koons-on-his-whitney-retrospective-the-high-line-train-and-emptiness
| — | Stingo’s Dad(in William Styron’s Sophie’s Choice) |
For some odd reason, this classic interview, makes me feel good. Stryon was 28(my age), full of life and bubbling in the fame of his first novel Lie Down in Darkness for which he won the Prix de Rome for Literature.
Here’s his thought on the creative writing course -
INTERVIEWER
What value has the creative writing course for young writers?
STYRON
It gives them a start, I suppose. But it can be an awful waste of time. Look at those people who go back year after year to summer writers’ conferences, you get so you can pick them out a mile away. A writing course can only give you a start, and help a little. It can’t teach writing. The professor should weed out the good from the bad, cull them like a farmer, and not encourage the ones who haven’t got something. At one school I know in New York, which has a lot of writing courses, there are a couple of teachers who moon in the most disgusting way over the poorest, most talentless writers, giving false hope where there shouldn’t be any hope at all. Regularly they put out dreary little anthologies, the quality of which would chill your blood. It’s a ruinous business, a waste of paper and time, and such teachers should be abolished.
INTERVIEWER
The average teacher can’t teach anything about technique or style?
STYRON
Well, he can teach you something in matters of technique. You know—don’t tell a story from two points of view and that sort of thing. But I don’t think even the most conscientious and astute teachers can teach anything about style. Style comes only after long, hard practice and writing.
Source: http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5114/the-art-of-fiction-no-5-william-styron
three poems ACCEPTED for publication in the summer issue of aaduna, three brutally REJECTED by another journal; i like it this way, like darkness crashing into light at noon! life is a coin and a double-edged sword…
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Rabindranth Tagore |
