Tag Archives: New York

Not New York

Posted on January 8, 2014 by wcd2

January 8, 2014 I’m about to head off to Chicago, also about to teach my freshman seminar: “Cities.” Chicago again, New York, San Francisco. The books are the usual suspects, but not all of them (for San Francisco I’m … Continue reading →

Posted in Cities, contemporary poetry, Nineteenth-century literature, Twentieth century literature, Uncategorized | Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Bethel Maine, Camden, Chicago, David Jackson, Edidon, Faulkner, Guatemala, James Merrill, Junot Diaz, Maltese Falcon, Mark Neveu, Miami, Michael Chabon, New York, Oxford Mississippi, Patterson, Richard Blano, San Francisco, The Golden Gate, Vikram Seth, Washington DC, Whitman, William Carlos Williams | Leave a comment

Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop: Boston Marathons

Posted on April 17, 2013 by wcd2

April 17, 2013 He writes only about the Civil War dead: Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the soldiers from the all-black 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, captured in bronze by August Saint-Gaudens. The sculpture isn’t all that close to the finish … Continue reading →

Posted in Americas, Cities, collaboration, Letters, Public art, Twentieth century literature | Tagged 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, August Saint-Gaudens, Boston Common, Boston Marathon, Castine Maine, Civil War, Elizabeth Bishop, For the Union Dead, March on the Pentagon, New York, Robert Gould Shaw, Robert Lowell | Leave a comment

Edward Weston, Walt Whitman: Grass

Posted on November 7, 2012 by wcd2

November 7, 2012 Whitman, poet of New Jersey and New York. Also poet of grass, the force of demographics, what comes up from the ground. He would have been unsurprised by Hurricane Sandy, or by the rising sea levels … Continue reading →

Posted in Atlantic, Autobiography, Cities, Climate change, collaboration, Environmentalism, Modern art, Nineteenth-century literature, oceans, Photography, planet, print medium, Publishers, Remediation, twentieth century art, Vernacular dialects, Visual arts | Tagged Arizona, Boston, Charis Wilson, Edward Weston, Georgia, Hurricane Sandy, Limited Edition Club, Museum of Fine Arts, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Paumanok, St. Simon's Island, Walt Whitman, Yaqui | Leave a comment

Unending Katrina: Dave Eggers’ Zeitoun

Posted on October 31, 2012 by wcd2

October 31, 2012 I never made it to the World Humanities Forum, a small story in a big storm. New Orleans and New York: this is the tale of two cities that is now unfolding. I wish I could say: … Continue reading →

Posted in Cities, Climate change, Contemporary novel, Environmentalism, Ethnicity, Genre, Islam, Media, Middle East, oceans, World religions | Tagged Abdulrahman Zeitoun, Charles Dickens, Dave Eggers, Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Sandy, New Orleans, New York, New York Times, World Humanities Forum, Zeitoun | 1 Comment

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: “Re Dis Appearing”

Posted on October 24, 2012 by wcd2

October 24, 2012 I’m getting ready for the World Humanities Forum, held next week in Busan, South Korea. So I’ve been thinking about Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, born in 1951 in Busan. She immigrated with her family to the … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts communities, Asian-American literature, Autobiography, Cities, Comparative literature, Contemporary Art, Diaspora, digital humanities, digital platforms, Ethnicity, film medium, Gender, Genre, Interdisciplinarity, Media, print medium, Publishers, twentieth century art, Twentieth century literature, Universities, Visual arts, World religions | Tagged "Re Dis Appearing", Berkeley, Busan, Christian Metz, Demeter, Dictee, France, Joan of Arc, Korea, Manchuria, New York, Persephone, Raymond Bellour, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Thierry Kuntzel, Tumblr, World Humanities Forum, Yu Guan Soon | 1 Comment

Jack Kerouac: Mexico City Blues

Posted on October 3, 2012 by wcd2

October 3, 2012 “The immense triangular arc from New York to Mexico City to San Francisco”: Jack Kerouac writes in The Dharma Bums. After two publishers turned down On the Road in quick succession, Kerouac went to Mexico in a … Continue reading →

Posted in African-American music, Americas, Arts communities, Cities, Experimental poetry, Genre, Global South, jazz, Latin America, lyric, Media, mexico, Modernist poetry, Music, peripheral networks, Publishers, Spanish, Twentieth century literature, YouTube videos | Tagged Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac, Jazz poetry, mexico city, New York, Paris Review, San Francisco, Ted Berrigan, William Burroughs | Leave a comment

Langston Hughes, Jacob Lawrence

Posted on February 8, 2012 by wcd2

February 8, 2012 Langston Hughes never went to Black Mountain College, but maybe he didn’t need to. 1948-49 was emblematic. A no doubt incomplete list of what happened during those months: in June 1948, Langston Hughes moved into 20 East … Continue reading →

Posted in abstract expressionism, collaboration, Cuban poetry, Media, Modernist poetry, print medium, Remediation, Translation, twentieth century art, Twentieth century literature, Visual arts | Tagged Arno Bontemps, Ben Frederic Carruthers, Black Mountain College, City Center, Cuba, Cuba Libre, Haiti, Home in a Box, Jacob Lawrence, Kurt Weill, Langston Hughes, New York, Nicolas Guillen, One-Way Ticket, Poetry of the Negro, Street Scene, Troubled Island, William Grant Still | 21 Comments