Happy New Year!

Get Your Asshole Kissed At Midnight - w4m - 25 (East Village)

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Date: 2010-12-31, 10:09PM EST

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putting the “x” back in xmas

Epicly Later’d

New Year’s resolution #5

Keep it together.

putting the “x” back in xmas

19th c

New Year’s resolution #4

Keep it crunk.

putting the “x” back in xmas

Diane Arbus

New Year’s resolution #3

Pin it on a drifter.

putting the “x” back in xmas

Diane Arbus

New Year’s resolution #2

Raise child in room painted with optical illusions and no direct human contact.

putting the “x” back in xmas

Santa’s Village

New Year’s resolution #1

Take it up a notch.

putting the “x” back in xmas

Santa’s Village

The Triumph of Life

Thus when we pronounce the word life, we are not to understand life intuited from the external aspect of things. But rather that kind of fragile, moving center which forms do not touch. If there is something infernal and truly accursed at this present time, it is the lingering artistically over forms, instead of behaving like victims being burnt at the stake, who gesture out of the flames.

Artaud

putting the “x” back in xmas

Santa’s Village

The Triumph of Life

Let us roll all our strength and all
Our sweetness up into one ball,
And tear our pleasures with rough strife
Thorough the iron gates of life.

Marvell

allegory, death

Robert Demachy, Autumn

The Triumph of Life

Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,
Stains the white radiance of eternity.

Shelley

allegory, death

Arthur Siegel

The Triumph of Life

Suddenly Hebdomeros saw that this woman had the eyes of his father; and he understood. She spoke of immortality in the great starless night.

“O Hebdomeros,” she said, “I am Immortality. Nouns have their gender, or rather their sex, as you once said with so much finesse, and verbs, alas, decline. Have you ever thought of my death? Have you ever thought of the death of my death? Have you thought of my life? One day, O brother....”

But she spoke no further.

Giorgio de Chirico

allegory, death

Erwin BLUMENFELD

The Triumph of Life

Bosola. Come, be of comfort; I will save your life.

Duchess. Indeed I have not leisure to tend so small a business.

The Duchess of Malfi

allegory, death

Robert Frank, Mary, 1957

What’s cooler than cool?

answer: ICE COLD

allegory, death

L’AQUOIBONISTE

John, do you think we both might be too much concerned with matters of taste? Or don’t you think it’s possible to be too much concerned with it?

JOHN ASHBERY: What else is there besides matters of taste?

KK: How would you change that statement if you wanted to put it in a poem? I think that statement would seem too pompous to you to put into a poem. Or too obvious.

JA: I would not put a statement in a poem. I feel that poetry must reflect on already existing statements.

KK: Why?

JA: Poetry does not have subject matter, because it is the subject. We are the subject matter of poetry, not vice versa.

KK: Could you distinguish your statement from the ordinary idea, which it resembles in every particular, that poems are about people?

JA: Yes. Poems are about people and things.

KK: Then when you said “we” you were including the other objects in this room.

JA: Of course.

KK: What has this to do with putting a statement in a poem?

JA: When statements occur in poetry they are merely a part of the combined refractions of everything else.

KK: What I mean is, how is the fact that poetry is about us connected to the use of statements in poetry?

JA: It isn’t.

KK: But you said before–

JA: I said nothing of the kind. Now stop asking me all these questions.

John Ashbery: A Conversation With Kenneth Koch

allegory, death

Between Gold

I was thinking today as I drove over here what my poetry could possibly do for me or for anyone who reads it.

I thought it might make people happy temporarily.

JA: That’s a pretty tall order.

KK: I know. I was just going to change the word from happy to something else.

JA: I’d be interested to know what you were going to change it to.

KK: Maybe to pleasantly surprised.

JA: Now you’re talking!

John Ashbery: A Conversation With Kenneth Koch

allegory, death

Dynasty interiors

I was just wondering if ambiguity is really what everybody is after. But if it is the case, why?

KK: It seems an essential part of true ambiguity that it not seem ambiguous in any obvious way. Do you agree?

JA: I don’t know. I’m wondering why all these people want that ambiguity so much.

KK: Have your speculations about ambiguity produced any results as yet?

JA: Only this: that ambiguity seems to the same thing as happiness–or pleasant surprise, as you put it. (I am assuming that from the moment that life cannot be one continual orgasm, real happiness is impossible and pleasant surprise is promoted to the front rank of the emotions.)

John Ashbery: A Conversation With Kenneth Koch

allegory, death

Dynasty interiors

Do you think there’s only one way of making sense? (We seem to be trying to trap each other into making pompous statements.)

JA: Yes, we seem to be determined both to discuss poetry and not to discuss anything at all. This is probably what we do in our poetry. I only wish I knew why we feel it to be necessary.

KK: I should think that if we really wanted to know why we felt it to be necessary that we could probably find out. I don’t think we really care.

JA: You’re right.

John Ashbery: A Conversation With Kenneth Koch