Tag Archives: John Cage
Black Mountain College
February 1, 2012 It’s a shame it was so short-lived. 1933-1957. Only 24 years. But maybe that’s the life-span one would expect from an entity like this: a mid-size player. That’s what Black Mountain College was. It didn’t have the … Continue reading
Posted in abstract expressionism, Arts communities, Contemporary Art, Dance, Educational institutions, Experimental poetry, Interdisciplinarity, Modernist poetry, Music, Twentieth century literature, Visual arts
Tagged "Migration series", Alan Shapiro, Asheville, Black Mountain College, Buckminster Fuller, Charles Olson, Ellen Bruant Voigt, Heather McHugh, Jacob Lawrence, John Cage, legal persons, Merce Cunningham, NC, PBS "American Masters" series, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Stephen Dobyns, Warren Wilson College
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Charles Olson: Call Me Ishmael
January 25, 2012 In the early 1930s, while writing his Master’s thesis on Melville, Charles Olson began tracking down the books once owned by Melville, some with significant marginalia. Melville’s widow had sold almost 500 of these books to a … Continue reading
Posted in epic, Experimental poetry, Handwritten script, Media, Nineteenth-century literature, Renaissance literature, Twentieth century literature
Tagged "Letter for Melville 1951", Black Mountain College, Call Me Ishmael, Charles Olson, Cy Twonbley, John Cage, Mayan hieroglyphics, Melville, Queequeg, Robert Duncan, Robert Rauschenberg, Shakespeare, University of Connecticut
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Collaboration with Chance
December 21 On our Facebook page, Edgar Garcia posted a link to Jackson Mac Low’s Words nd Ends from Ez. Ezra Pound, of course. The two poets used to be friends, but they were no longer close when Mac Low … Continue reading
Posted in epic, Experimental poetry, Music, Nineteenth-century literature, print medium, Remediation, Rock music, Twentieth century literature
Tagged Add new tag, chance, Experimental poetry, Ezra Pound, Herman Melville, Jackson Mac Low, John Bonham, John Cage, Led Zeppelin, Moby-Dick, Music, randomization, Rock music
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