Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Maryrose Larkin Reading
The New Talkies:
Portland–San Francisco Neo-Benshi Cabaret
Writers/performers from San Francisco and Portland turn down the sound and talk back to the movies, updating the lost art of "film-telling."
Spare Room (Portland) and kino21 (San Francisco) copresent
The New Talkies: A Portland-San Francisco Neo-Benshi Cabaret
Inspired by the film-tellers, or benshis, of the silent era in Japan, neo-benshi invites
contemporary artists to turn off the sound and perform their own scripts to brief scenes from films of their choosing. Previous installments of The New Talkies have brought together diverse audiences of poetry, performance, and film fans in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
Portland–San Francisco Neo-Benshi Cabaret
Writers/performers from San Francisco and Portland turn down the sound and talk back to the movies, updating the lost art of "film-telling."
Spare Room (Portland) and kino21 (San Francisco) copresent
The New Talkies: A Portland-San Francisco Neo-Benshi Cabaret
Inspired by the film-tellers, or benshis, of the silent era in Japan, neo-benshi invites
contemporary artists to turn off the sound and perform their own scripts to brief scenes from films of their choosing. Previous installments of The New Talkies have brought together diverse audiences of poetry, performance, and film fans in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Monday, August 20, 2007
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Friday, July 13, 2007
Book of Ocean reviewed at Cold Front
http://reviews.coldfrontmag.com/2007/07/the-book-of-oce.html
We recognise we've been overusing the word "cheesy" for 20 years, but jeez louise.
We recognise we've been overusing the word "cheesy" for 20 years, but jeez louise.
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Larkin Hits the Road
http://www.openpoetrybooks.com/calendar/
Thursday, June 14, 2007 at 07:30 PM
MARYROSE LARKIN & DONNA STONECIPHER
“Am a detective of tangents,” writes Maryrose Larkin in her new collection, The Book of Ocean ($12.95 i.e. Press). The tangents she discovers – in sound and meaning – make for lyrically inventive poems that awaken both mind and heart. Imagery of the natural world, science, and religion appears in language that is fragmented yet rich, and often richly musical – “I am oxygen sentence a mouthful of mercury / calcium invention of hollow and ocean.” The connection of human perception, of language, to world is a thread throughout – “eye opens the idea of sky,” she suggests in “Prime,” the first poem in the spare and graceful series “Book of Hours.” An acknowledge-ment of loss, too, gently colors the volume – “we are wholly absence swung” – though the poems continually convey engagement and embrace, a desire to “edge / even closer see / inside out.”
Thursday, June 14, 2007 at 07:30 PM
MARYROSE LARKIN & DONNA STONECIPHER
“Am a detective of tangents,” writes Maryrose Larkin in her new collection, The Book of Ocean ($12.95 i.e. Press). The tangents she discovers – in sound and meaning – make for lyrically inventive poems that awaken both mind and heart. Imagery of the natural world, science, and religion appears in language that is fragmented yet rich, and often richly musical – “I am oxygen sentence a mouthful of mercury / calcium invention of hollow and ocean.” The connection of human perception, of language, to world is a thread throughout – “eye opens the idea of sky,” she suggests in “Prime,” the first poem in the spare and graceful series “Book of Hours.” An acknowledge-ment of loss, too, gently colors the volume – “we are wholly absence swung” – though the poems continually convey engagement and embrace, a desire to “edge / even closer see / inside out.”
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