Time on the Move: 6 (Xanadu Press) - Softcover

Wallenstein, Barry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 097607933X ISBN 13: 9780976079330

Publisher: Xanadu Press, 2020

Synopsis

poetry and photography

Nine one-page poems about the fleeting nature of time and relationships by Barry Wallenstein and thirty-four small contrapuntal surreal photographs by Barbara Rosenthal.

Barry Wallensteins poetry lures us into his jazz-rhythmed territory by pointing his personal compass straight toward our own active places. Once there, we meet up with our own demons and devines on the odd-numbered pages, while Barbara Rosenthal’s photographs on the even pages wrench the steering wheel right out from our moving, reeling stops at stop signs, and drive us into our own deeper dreams and nightmares. This is a book of unpretentious poetry and unmanipulated photographs that seems so straightforward and beautiful and easy to ease into the times and places and people we meet here, but as we travel through it, turning pages, re-reading, looking and reading and looking and reading again, we recognize everyone and everything and every place, as one we’ve visited on our own, but never known its reality, and its shared signifcance to us all, till now.

About this title

About the Authors

Barry Wallenstein is the author of eight collections of poetry, the most recent being At the Surprise Hotel and Other Poems [Ridgeway Press, 2016] and Drastic Dislocations: New and Selected Poems [New York Quarterly Books, 2012]. His poetry has appeared in over 100 journals, including Ploughshares, The Nation, and American Poetry Review. A special interest is his presentation of poetry readings in collaboration with jazz. He has made nine recordings of his poetry with jazz, the most recent being Lisbon Sunset (2018), What Was, Was (2015) and Lucky These Days (2013). Barry is Emeritus Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the City University of New York and an editor of the journal, American Book Review.

Barbara Rosenthal has published six books, which, with this one now, contain 368 of her photographs: Clues to Myself, Sensations, Homo Futurus, Soul & Psyche, (all Visual Studies Workshop Press) and Wish for Amnesia (Deadly Chaps), which also comprise her own writings and are in the collections of MoMA, Whitney, Tate, Berlin Kunstbibliotek et al, and Weeks, with poet Hannah Weiner (Xeoxial Editions). Her Surreal Photos have also been exhibited in NYC at the galleries Denise Bibro, Fourth Street Photo, Monique Goldstrom, Protégé, and Smith&Jones; in Berlin at Galerie Glass and Studio Baustelle; Ten Gales in London; and Accademia de Belle Arti, Invizin, and Grisu in Italy. For twelve years she taught Photography at Parsons School of Design / The New School.

Edition details

• Publisher: Xanadu Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 097607933X
• ISBN 13: 9780976079330
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 28