MEMBER BLOG TAG: imagination
| Saturday, April 30, 2011 12:59PM | | | | ERNESTO CARDENAL CENSORED @ PEN??? | Tags: WRITER's IMAGINATION V. GLOBAL CORPORATE OLIGARCHY, Free Speech?, ERNESTO CARDENAL & Pablo Neruda's V. Solipsistic Abstraction. Planetary Citizenship, Death of Democracies, Anemic Writing re. climate change, earth quakes, nuclear disasters, slave labor....
| | | | Was Ernesto Cardenal Censored at PEN's World Voices Poetry Evening titled: The Second Skin? Was it censorship in the guise of "Art for Art's Sake?" I heard Cardenal read a vital poem, "Cell Phone," at Poets House in the afternoon. He intended to read it at PEN, Friday evening. I was told by those traveling with him, that it was cut from his intended program by the directors of the poetry event. Why?
I was shocked that the PEN poetry event directors seemed to censor Ernesto Cardenal's vital poem, "Cell Phone." It's in Cardenal's latest book--no doubt one of the greatest poetry books of the 20 or 21st Centuries, titled The Origin of the Species, after Darwin's treatise, and translated by John Lyons. "Cell Phone"... | | | | | | | Tuesday, April 26, 2011 3:27PM | | | | PUBLIC INTELLECT & CORPORATE STATE | Tags: Public Intellectual. Emerson * Edward Said. Opening Eve: World Voices 2011. Global Corporate State, Writer's Imagination. Salmon Rushdie, nuclear disaster, writing in the 21st century, Mid-East Oil Wars, Writers as Planetary Citizens
| | | | WHERE WAS EMERSON'S & EWARD SAID's "PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL" in the OPENING EVENING: "Written on Water" of WORLD VOICES, 2011?
The opening night of PEN’s 2011 WORLD VOICES FESTIVAL of International Literature began with a call to speak out as writers, since those of us present were not as censored from Freedom of Speech as many are around the globe. A list of great books that have been censored was screened from Milton's Paradise Lost to Voltaire's Candide. The seventh annual festival was designed to celebrate the power of the writer’s voice to revitalize public debate on critical world issues, but the opening night’s event at the Lighthouse, Chelsea Piers on the Hudson, didn’t adhere well... | | | | | | | Monday, October 20, 2008 11:09AM | | | | Unfettering my imagination | Tags: Historical, fiction, research, imagination, anglo-saxons
| | | | Joan Didion once said, “Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing.”
I’m trying to figure out when she meant by that, since to me all writing is shaping something into the finished thing. And both my novels -- fiction, obviously -- have taken considerable research.
Even short stories, which may not take much research, certainly take shaping. Tons of it, in fact, since the short story form is all about economy, where anything superfluous sticks out like stone bunny ears over the head of the Venus de Milo. Crafting a decent short story involves chipping away... | | | | | | | Friday, May 2, 2008 1:18PM | | | | Personal narrative and public.... | Tags: Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras, South of the Border, Brooklyn, nomads, private, public, marginal, autobiography, imagination, women writers.
| | | Mexican novelist Carmen Boullosa and Honduras/El Salvador author Horacio Castallanos novelist and journalists both read a passage from a novel in English, and then sat down for a talk with playwright Nathalie Handal.
Nathalie Handal kicked off the exchange with a funny and revealing anecdote: Carmen Boullosa had just published a novel that was getting a lot of attention, and one of Mexico City famous critics called her up and said, you have to send me a new copy of your book immediately. I am missing five pages, and I can't wait to finish your book. By the way I really enjoyed when your mother made love to a priest! Boullosa was stunned: "it's a novel," she said. "I's not about my mother. My... | | | | | |
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