Jill,
In harmony now! 'Fly me to the moon' etc. 'And let me play among the stars.'
Something, something, something, something, on Jupiter and Mars ...
Best
Árni
--
Árni Ibsen
Stekkjarkinn 19,
220 Hafnarfjördur,
Iceland
tel.: +354-555-3991
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
http://www.centrum.is/~aibsen/
on 11/14/03 11:08 PM, Jill Jones at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Hi Árni
>
> No problem. So long as you take me back to Iceland afterwards. I'll
> bring my toothbrush as well. Promise.
>
> Cheers,
> Jill
>
> On Saturday, November 15, 2003, at 09:37 AM, Árni Ibsen wrote:
>
>> Sounds great! I'd honestly love to be there, Jill! Will you raise the
>> money
>> for my airfare? 'Caus if you do, I'll certainly keep my end of the
>> bargain
>> and make it to the terminal on time with my toothbrush!
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Árni
>>
>>
>> --
>> Árni Ibsen
>> Stekkjarkinn 19,
>> 220 Hafnarfjördur,
>> Iceland
>>
>> tel.: +354-555-3991
>> e-mail: [log in to unmask]
>> http://www.centrum.is/~aibsen/
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> on 11/13/03 11:42 PM, Jill Jones at [log in to unmask] wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> If anyone is in Sydney on 24th November, you should be at this
>>> reading.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Jill
>>>
>>>
>>> The Loft Readings, Monday 24th November
>>> Featuring: Artwork by Francie Shaw, Readings by Bob Perelman and John
>>> Tranter
>>> The Loft Bar
>>> University of Technology, Sydney
>>> Entry to the right of the UTS tower building on Broadway
>>> 6.30pm for 7pm start ($5/$3)
>>>
>>> The University of Technology Department of Writing and Social Inquiry
>>> presents
>>> THE LOFT READINGS featuring Bob Perelman, Francie Shaw and John
>>> Tranter.
>>>
>>> The Loft Readings are proud to present two internationally renowned
>>> language
>>> poets. Language writers, heirs to the early modernists and beat
>>> poets, favour
>>> poetry that experiments with form, rejects the personal narrative and
>>> examines
>>> the use and misuse of language. It is poetry that draws from, and is
>>> inspired
>>> strongly by language rather than pure experience. We welcome, all the
>>> way from
>>> the USA, Bob Perelman and artist Francie Shaw, and from local shores,
>>> Sydney
>>> poet John Tranter.
>>>
>>> Bob Perelman and Francie Shaw lived in the Bay Area of San Francisco
>>> from 1976
>>> to 1990. There, Francie Shaw had a one-woman installation show at 80
>>> Langton
>>> Street and collaborated extensively with poets. She took part in
>>> collaborative
>>> performances with Perelman and musician Larry Ochs; created book
>>> covers for
>>> numerous poets, including Robert Grenier, David Bromige and Lyn
>>> Hejinian; and
>>> designed costumes for the Margaret Jenkins Dance Troupe and sets for
>>> Poets
>>> Theater. She taught art at the Sierra School from 1984 until 1990.
>>> That year
>>> she and Perelman moved to Philadelphia, where she taught art at
>>> Friends Select
>>> School until 1997 when she stopped teaching to devote her time to her
>>> own
>>> work.
>>> Since then she has shown her work in Philadelphia and New York (A.I.R.
>>> Gallery).
>>>
>>> Bob Perelman has edited Hills magazine, organized and curated the
>>> Talk Series
>>> in San Francisco, organized performances of Louis and Celia
>>> Zukofsky's A-24
>>> and
>>> participated in various art ventures, including 80 Langton Street
>>> (now Langton
>>> Arts) and Poets Theatre. He now teaches at the University of
>>> Pennsylvania. Bob
>>> is the author of 16 books of poetry, including Ten to One and The
>>> Future of
>>> Memory; and 2 critical books, The Trouble with Genius: Reading Pound,
>>> Joyce,
>>> Stein, and Zukofsky (1994) and The Marginalization of Poetry:
>>> Language Writing
>>> and Literary History (1996). He has edited 2 collections of poets'
>>> talks,
>>> Hills
>>> Talks and Writing/Talks.
>>>
>>> Playing Bodies, Shaw and Perelman's painting/poem collaboration, is
>>> forthcoming
>>> from Granary Books (NY) later this year.
>>>
>>> John Tranter is a leading modern Australian poet. He has worked
>>> mainly in
>>> publishing, teaching and radio production, and has travelled widely,
>>> making
>>> reading tours of the United States, Britain and Europe. 20
>>> collections of his
>>> verse have been published, including The Floor of Heaven, a
>>> book-length
>>> sequence of 4 verse narratives (HarperCollins 1992 and Arc, UK,
>>> 2001), Late
>>> Night Radio (Polygon, Edinburgh, 1998), Different Hands, a collection
>>> of 7
>>> experimental prose pieces (Folio/Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1998),
>>> Heart
>>> Print (Salt Publishing, UK, 2000), Studio Moon and Trio (both Salt
>>> Publications, UK, 2003). His work appears in the Norton Anthology of
>>> Modern
>>> Poetry. In 1992 he co-edited (with Philip Mead) the Penguin Book of
>>> Modern
>>> Australian Poetry, a 470-page anthology published in Britain and the
>>> USA as
>>> The
>>> Bloodaxe Book of Modern Australian Poetry. He is the editor of the
>>> free
>>> Internet magazine Jacket.
>>>
>>> The Loft Readings are coordinated by Berndt Sellheim, Stephanie
>>> Bishop and
>>> Kathleen Evans. For enquiries contact: Kathleen Evans 0402 07 9977 or
>>> [log in to unmask]
>>>
>>> The Loft Readings would not be possible without the support of The UTS
>>> Department of Writing and Social Inquiry, and The Literature Board of
>>> the
>>> Australia Council.
>>
>>
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>
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>
> ...........................................
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> His hair was ... perfect
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