Yet another reason — besides the museums and the galleries and my lovely friends and the plays and the streets and Central Park and etcetera etcetera — to move to New York, this one arriving via Poetry Daily’s Weekly Newsletter:
Anne Carson in performance at the 92nd Street Y
Come see Anne Carson in performance at the 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center! Wednesday, March 26, 8:00 pm. Carson will perform her pieces Cassandra Float Can and Possessive Used As Drink (Me), featuring dancers and singing. An essayist, classicist and poet, Carson is the author of Decreation, The Beauty of the Husband, Eros the Bittersweet and Autobiography of Red.. 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Ave, NYC. Tickets: $18.00/$10.00 Age 35 and under. Call 212-415-5500 or visit us online.
I am so jealous of everyone who’s even vaguely close enough to New York to see this, I can’t even talk about it. If you are in New York, in the tri-state area, or even vaguely close enough to New York to see this, it is your solemn duty to GO, GO, GO, and then write me and tell me about it and make me jealous. Anne Carson! In performance! The only thing that could make me more jealous would be a performance of “Lots of Guns: An Oratorio for Five Voices.” Who doesn’t love a little Gertrude Stein?
Speaking of Gertrude Stein, my Spring Break has drawn to a close, and I have already packed up my (thankfully, marvelously fuel-efficient) vehicle for the drive back to Auburn. Now, all that remains is for me to pack up Gertrude Stein (the feline version, who is currently sitting on my mouse pad) and all of her accessories, and prepare for a few hours of constant yowling. Thankfully, there’s George Harrison, who was, in my opinion, not only the coolest Beatle (I know, I know, people say this is blasphemy, but, seriously. The guy was awesome), but who is also the only singer with the magical power of lulling Gertrude Stein into a meditative calm during road trips. I always have All Things Must Pass on reserve — the second she hears the opening to “I’d Have You Anytime,” Gertie settles down and starts to purr. She may eat bugs, but she’s got great taste in music.
Emma Bolden is the author of How To Recognize A Lady, a chapbook of poems published as part of Edge by Edge, the third in Toadlily Press' Quartet Series, and The Mariner's Wife, a chapbook published by Finishing Line Press. Her third chapbook, The Sad Epistles, is forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press. She was the recipient of a Tennessee Williams Scholarship to the Sewanee Writers' Conference and was named a Finalist for a Ruth Lilly Fellowship by the Poetry Foundation/Poetry magazine. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in such journals as Prairie Schooner, the Indiana Review, Feminist Studies, The Journal, Redivider, The Greensboro Review, and Verse. Her manuscript was a semi-finalist for the Perugia Press Prize. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Georgetown College, where she also serves as the poetry editor of the Georgetown Review.
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March 27, 2008 at 11:32 am
didyousayhername
OMG I cannot believe this! I cannot I cannot I cannot! The only thing that would even come CLOSE to being as fabulous as seeing Carson perform would be to have heard Anne Sexton perform with her band.
Which I have just found audio of. AWESOME.
http://www.dianemiddlebrook.com/sexton/asaudio.html
March 28, 2008 at 5:42 pm
db
So, I stumbled across your blog while searching for people who attended the Carson reading/performance in hopes of comparing notes. Fortunately, living in NYC, I had the good opportunity to see her reading and I was thrilled to have gone. Needless to say, the reading was just as amazing, if not moreso, than you already imagined it to be. I can only hope that you’re sufficiently jealous (seeing as how you asked).
March 29, 2008 at 3:48 pm
emmabolden
No. No. NO! You did NOT just post audio of Anne Sexton performing with her band on my blog. You. Did. Not. Because that would mean that you are absolutely, without any shadow of a shadow of a doubt, THE COOLEST MOST AMAZING MOST FASHIONABLE FACE that ever graced this planet! “WOMAN WITH GIRDLE!!!” AAUUUGGGHHH!!
Um, when are we starting up our band?
March 29, 2008 at 3:49 pm
emmabolden
OH, OH, db, you are not getting away with leaving so little information! I am seriously jealous, though, but I want to be so jealous that my skin actually slowly, slowly turns a permanent shade of green. What was it like?!
April 3, 2008 at 5:45 pm
didyousayhername
Um, band? Did you say “band”? Um, keyboard? Check. Keyboard with weighted keys? Check. Keyboard with the most amazingly fashionable recording capabilities EVER? Check. Fake books? On their way. Accordion? Check. Accordion player? Check. Accordion player with an appreciation of poetry? Check.
And I’m sure we can find some sort of guitar player on the side of the road or something. But it must be a “he.” And he must be hott. With two Ts. Or hawt. Which is better?
Now, for the most important question: whatever will our name be?