Up at 8.
Skimmed this.
Snowed overnight, but not that bad.
Madonna’s “Open Your Heart” stuck in my head.
Left at 10.
Listened to 5049 podcast w/ Rebekah Heller (new music bassoonist).
Coffee. Read introduction to Stephanie DeGooeyer, et. al. The Right to Have Rights (on Arendt).
Therapy.
Lunch. Saw someone working on a MS titled “Where Do Birds Go To Die?” though a cafe window.
To Lincoln Center Library; started working by 2.
Worked an hr. each on CV and statement.
Then I looked more closely at the application instructions, and both my statement and intended writing sample are much too long.
Changed gears and cut 3 sections, about 8K, out of the version of the introduction I mean to send; now 15,000 words.
Left at 7:45. Read Ch. 1 of RtHR, started Ch. 2.
Perry Mason.
Decided to use the inconveniently chunky notebook that I began and avoid for the next 3 months of poetry, to fill it up. Wrote a page.
Trips to laundry room for Bree.
More Mason, lights out 1:30.
4.1.18
Up at 8.
Watched a few Bangles videos.
Coffee.
Poetry daybook.
Farmer’s market w/ Bree.
Added Adorno footnote to intro.
Read Susan Fast’s 33 1/3 on Michael Jackson’s Dangerous on train.
Communitea closed for Easter; went to Sweetleaf
Added another footnote about Leonard Meyer.
Worked 1-5 on grant application.
Called parents for Easter.
Opened up my musty CV, which I have to revise for same grant.
Home on train; more Fast.
Dinner at Urumbaya w/ Bree.
Zoned out at home: card magic videos and 1 episode of Perry Mason.
Finished Fast. Disappointing; hasty and inconsistent.
Read 1/3 of Andrew Levy, Ashoka.
Lights out 1:30.
March 2018 reading
Sigmund Spaeth, The Art of Enjoying Music
Lucy Ives, The Worldkillers
Camara Laye, The Radiance of the King
Charles Mills, Blackness Visible: Essays on Philosophy and Race
Percival Everett, God's Country
John Ashbery, Houseboat Days (re-read)
Edward E. Marks with A.J. Leibling, They All Sang: from Tony Pastor to Rudy Vallee
Carey Fleiner, The Kinks: A Thoroughly English Phenomenon
Emily Skillings, Fort Not
February 2018 reading
(I kept the list, but forgot to post it)
Francis Ponge, trans. Colombina Zamponi, The Table
Shake It Up!, ed. Jonathan Lethem and Kevin Dettmar
John Ash, To The City
Lee Ann Brown, Crowns of Charlotte: NC Ode
Heaton, A Brief History of Mathematical Thought
Burt, Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry
Max Kozloff, Vermeer
Anthea Kraut, Choreographing Copyright: Race, Gender and Intellectual Property Right in American Dance
Rebecca Woolf, One Morning--
Nathalie Leger, Suite for Barbara Loden
Chuck Stebelton, The Platformist
January 2018 reading
W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk
Tom Mandel, To the Cognoscenti
Ann Douglas, Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s
Vi Khi Nao, The Old Philosopher
Douglas Piccinnini, Blood Oboe
Khadijah Queen, I'm So Fine
Mary McCarthy, The Writing on the Wall
Leonard Diepeveen & Timothy Van Laar, Art With a Difference: Looking at Different and Unfamiliar Art
Catherine Taylor, You and Me and the Violence
Gary Watson, ed., Free Will
Marc E. Black, "Meanings and Typologies of Duboisian Double Consciousness within 20th Century United States Racial Dynamics"
James Weldon Johnson, Black Manhattan
Deborah Meadows, The Demotion of Pluto
Zadie Smith, Swing Time
Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
Clark Coolidge, It's Giordano Bluto! (chapbook)