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Festival of Books: American poets make their debut on forever stamps
Jacket CopyThe U.S. Postal Service made a special delivery Saturday at the L.A. Times Festival of Books' Poetry Stage: It rolled out the first-day issue of commemorative stamps dedicated to 20th century poets. The midday first-day issue ceremony drew an audience....... -
Dorothea Tanning dies at 101; artist and poet married Max Ernst
Over more than a century, Dorothea Tanning collided and consorted with artistic titans of the 20th century who included Pablo Picasso, John Cage and Joseph Cornell. She designed sets for George Balanchine ballets, played romantic matchmaker for poet Andre...Tags: Andre Breton, George Balanchine, Man Ray, Artists, Poetry
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Reading L.A.: David Brodsly's 'L.A. Freeway'
Culture MonsterAs far as polarizing subjects in Los Angeles go, freeways have long ranked near the top, perhaps trailing only Shaq-Kobe and the question of where the Eastside really begins. Most of us love to complain about our freeways -- about...... -
'Slumberland' by Paul Beatty
Slumberland
A Novel
Paul Beatty
Bloomsbury: 244 pp., $24.99
I first heard of Paul Beatty in the 1990s, when Europe was awash in young black rebels trying to forge a new identity against the backdrop of insidious racism. We wanted to be black and...Tags: Racism, Charlie Parker, Disc Jockeys, Germany, Civil Rights
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New in paperback: The pioneers of the police procedural, Iraq by way of Homer and the Crusades through Muslim eyes
"Immoveable Feast" by John Baxter (Harper Perennial) Baxter, the film critic and biographer of Spielberg, Buñuel and others, fell in love and moved from Los Angeles to Paris some years back, from whence he has dispatched a series of fluent, witty and...Tags: Stranger Than Fiction, Crimes, Sid Vicious, Kurt Cobain, History
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James Thorpe dies at 93; former director of the Huntington Library put it on the map
James Thorpe, former director of the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens who helped raise the public profile of the institution, turning it into one of Southern California's leading educational and cultural centers, has died. He...Tags: Death, Armed Forces, Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, John Milton, Defense
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‘The Best of It: New and Selected Poems’ by Kay Ryan
Book review: ‘The Best of It: New and Selected Poems' by Kay Ryan
The Best of It
New and Selected Poems
Kay Ryan
Grove: 270 pp., $24
Contemporary poetry is a bit like visual art. Much of it makes you grab your chin and nod in stumped...Tags: Robert Frost, John Freeman
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'If Birds Gather Your Hair for Nesting' by Anna Journey
Anna Journey's first book of poems, "If Birds Gather Your Hair for Nesting" (University of Georgia Press: 104 pp., $16.95 paper), is a deeply American debut that deals with the author's Southern childhood and adolescence as a pretty, redheaded girl from...Tags: University of Georgia, Romanticism (genre), Death, Hair and Nails, Henry Taylor
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Eighth blackbird lands at Ojai Music Festival
The Ojai Music Festival has a long tradition of picking some of the era's most important artists to serve as its music director, a position that rotates annually. But though the festival has sometimes chosen more than one person at a time for the job,...Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, Pierre Boulez, Festive Events, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Aaron Copland
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'A New Literary History of America' by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors
Daunting as it may be to assemble a centuries-spanning assessment of any country, even one with a fairly linear march through history, how does one approach a culture as unstable, contradictory and contested as ours? Where do you start? Where do you stop?...Tags: Leslie Fiedler, John Adams, History, Randall Jarrell, Elvis Presley
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Off The Shelf: Finding the pieces that turn writing into poetry
When I was in my early 20s, living in Berkeley and drifting toward a PhD in Russian literature, I started writing poetry. It was a completely unexpected development. I definitely hadn't been one of those kids in high school who worked for the literary...Tags: Education, Poetry, Awards and Prizes, Nobel Prize Awards, Literature
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Live: 'Blackbird,' by the numbers
Times Music CriticThe math behind eighth blackbird’s program Tuesday night at the Orange County Performing Artscenter, titled "The Only Moving Thing," was this: The ensemble, based at the University of Chicago, takes its name from Wallace Stevens' poem "Thirteen...Tags: Michael Gordon, University of Chicago, Paul McCartney, Death, Pulitzer Prize Awards
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