Completed “Beatnik Questionnaire” sent by Gerard Malanga to Daisy Aldan, 1960, from the Ransom Center’s Gerard Malanga Papers.

Les modes sont un médicament destiné à compenser à l’échelle collective les effets néfastes de l’oubli. Plus une époque est éphémère plus elle est dans la dépendance de la mode.

Extrait de Paris, capitale du XIXe siècle de Walter Benjamin.

Photography by Jak & Jil.

PART I (10:00)

PART II (9:58)

Throughout her career, Eileen Myles has reclaimed poetry as public vocation. “Our times needs a shadow,” she writes in The Importance of Being Iceland. Framed by an account of her travels in Iceland, these essays assert inbetweenness as the most vital (and poetic) position to view the world as a whole. Culled form more than two decades of art and cultural criticism originally written for exhibitions, events, and journals, the essays in this book–on subjects ranging from Henry David Thoreau, James Schulyler, and Björk to queer Russia, working class speech, California freeways, and flossing–counterpose the nuance of Iceland’s deeply rooted yet fluid culture with the more prevalent, American fact of steamrolling “global” heteregoneity. Myles links ancient Icelandic verse, New York summer streets, the antiseptic malls of La Jolla, and the back of the Sister Spit tour van with an awareness that criticism is always a social gesture.

The Importance of Being Iceland was released last July by Semiotext(e). 369 pages.

WELCOME

TO

NOVEMBER

OF BLOOD

1. TODAY, THURSDAY NOVEMBER 5 @ 7PM
READING: ARIANA REINES + PENNY ARCADE

+ABDELLAH TAIA

a semiotext(e) reading hosted by Chris Kraus, with Abdellah Taia, Penny Arcade, and Ariana Reines, celebrating the release of, among other things, THE LITTLE BLACK BOOK OF GRISÉLIDIS RÉAL: DAYS AND NIGHTS OF AN ANARCHIST WHORE by Jean-Luc Hennig, translated + introduced by Ariana Reines. at Bluestockings, 172 Allen St, NY NY.
FREE / Further info here

2. SATURDAY NOVEMBER 7 @ 8PM
READING: ARIANA REINES + JIBADE-KAHLIL HUFFMAN

+ EUGENE OSTASHEVSKY
at Space Space, 390 Seneca Avenue, Ridgewood, Queens

(corner of Seneca + Stanhope; entrance on Stanhope; ‘L’ to DEKALB)

Further info here

3. SUNDAY NOVEMBER 15 + MONDAY NOVEMBER 16 @7:30PM
WORKS+PROCESS AT THE GUGGENHEIM

ARIANA REINES:

MISS ST’S HEIROGLYPHIC SUFFERING + POETRY READING + CONVERSATION
featuring the premiere of a new performance based on TELEPHONE + created by ariana reines, starring birgit huppuch, directed by ken rus schmoll, sound design by david linton, costume and set design by florencia vetcher + sigfus breidfjord, produced by sunder ganglani plus a conversation moderated by chris kraus + poetry reading
at The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue (at 89th St) NY, NY
$10/$20/$30

Further info here

And please look for PLAY: A JOURNAL OF PLAYS later this fall: it includes the text of TELEPHONE.  And do not forget the essential new translation of posthumous, intimate works of Baudelaire, MY HEART LAID BARE, translated by Ariana Reines and out now from MAL-O-MAR.

Lac de Sainte-Croix, Alpes-de-Hautes-Provence. Photography by dp.

“Beaudelaire, à la fin du premier poème du Spleen de Paris, semble n’avoir multiplié les points de suspension: “J’aime les nuages… les nuages qui passent… là-bas… là-bas… les merveilleux nuages!” que pour que passent réellement sous les yeux les nuages, pour qu’ils apparaissent comme des points de suspension entre la terre et le ciel. C’est que regarder de la terre un nuage est la meilleure façon d’interroger son propre désir.”

Extrait de L’amour fou d’André Breton. (Gallimard, 1976)