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Elliott Carter dies at 103; inventive American composer
Elliott Carter, the great American composer who was born in the horse-and-buggy era but whose music persistently looked ahead by reflecting and unabashedly celebrating the intricacies of modern life, died Monday of natural causes at his home in New York,...
Tags: Opera (genre), Queens (New York City), John Cage, Leopold Stokowski, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Poet Jack Gilbert has died
The poet Jack Gilbert, who had been battling dementia for many years, died Tuesday in Berkeley. He was 87. Gilbert -- who was featured in Monday's L.A. Times -- had been in frail condition at a nursing home for several years before he developed...
Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, Poetry, Awards and Prizes, Allen Ginsberg, Pneumonia
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Al Pacino, Andre Watts among National Medal of Arts winners
Culture MonsterAl Pacino and Andre Watts are among the National Medal of Arts winners announced Friday. President Obama will confer the awards on Monday at the White House.... -
National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medals announced
Jacket CopyThe White House announced the recipients of the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medals today. Poet Rita Dove (above) is the leading literary figure among the seven who will receive the National Medal of Arts, joining actor...... -
An artistic dialogue about Proposition 8 at SFMOMA
Culture Monster"The Air We Breathe" at SFMOMA addresses issues of Prop. 8... -
W.S. Merwin is green as U.S. poet laureate
Los Angeles TimesReporting from Maui — We've been batting our way through W.S. Merwin's yard for a couple hours, swatting mosquitoes in the streambed under the dark wet canopy of towering, philodendron-draped mangoes and looking at some 700 species of palm trees,...Tags: Gary Snyder, Cambridge (Middlesex, Massachusetts), Seamus Heaney, Wildlife, Journalism
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Discoveries
Special to the Los Angeles TimesIlluminations Arthur Rimbaud, translated from the French by John Ashbery W.W. Norton: 165 pp., $24.95 This may be the most beautiful book in the world — lighted from within and somehow embodying all forms of literature at the same time. The 44...Tags: French Literature, American Red Cross, Photography, Arthur Rimbaud, Merce Cunningham
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New Yorker Festival announces lineup
Jacket CopyIt wouldn't really be the New Yorker Festival without a little Malcolm Gladwell, would it? Today the New Yorker announced the lineup for its October festival of culture, arts and the written word. Who's taking part? A lot of the...... -
'Other Flowers: Uncollected Poems' by James Schuyler
Other Flowers
Uncollected Poems
James Schuyler,
edited by James Metzee
and Simon Pettet
Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 218 pp., $26
The Velvet Underground, it has been said, did not sell many records, but everyone who bought one went out and started his...Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, Awards and Prizes, Poetry, Kenneth Koch, Frank O'Hara
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Remembering Jim Carroll
Jim Carroll, who died Friday of a heart attack at 60 in Manhattan, was a legend by the time he was 13. That's when the poet Ted Berrigan took him to visit Jack Kerouac, who took a look at some of Jim's writing and said, "Jim Carroll writes better prose...Tags: Poetry, Andy Warhol, Arthur Rimbaud, Suicide, Jack Kerouac
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Still alive!
To call something "notes" means it isn't finished.
A preparation for something else, or a work in progress.
Or
It means I know this is less than perfect. It means the piecemeal composition is acknowledged, should be applauded.
"And to my horror (for I...Tags: Robert Kelly, Poetry, Charles Dickens, Walter Benjamin, Gaming
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Manny Farber: A film critic not in awe of Hollywood
Farber on Film
The Complete Film Writings
of Manny Farber
Edited by Robert Polito
Library of America: 824 pp., $40
At this year's Academy Awards, the most incongruous moment came during the "In Memoriam" roll call. Among the distinguished deceased...Tags: Daffy Duck (fictional animal), Don Siegel, Anthony Mann, Esther Williams, Casablanca (movie)
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