Monday, March 14, 2011
Dunagan on Guston
Patrick Dunagan, author of There Are People Who Think That Painters Shouldn't Talk : A GUSTONBOOK, with a write up for The SF Bay Guardian on a special screening of the 1980 documentary "Philip Guston: A Life Lived and Discussed" that will happen tonight in San Francisco. Dunagan will also give a talk at this evening's screening along with poets Clark Coolidge and Bill Berkson, friends and colleagues of Philip Gustons. See article for details.
Friday, February 25, 2011
Post-Apollo : News & Upcoming Events
Exciting times for The Post-Apollo Press. See below for the newest-latest news and events.
N E W S :
Post-Apollo's most recent work of translation, Maribor, has been nominated for a Northern California Book Award in the category of poetry translation. Huzzah!
The award will be presented on behalf of On behalf of the Northern California Book Reviewers and the Center for the Art of Translation at The 30th Annual Northern California Book Awards. Here are the details:
When: Sunday, April 10, from 1:00–2:30 pm, with a book signing and reception immediately following in the Latino/Hispanic Community Room.
Where: in the Koret Auditorium at the San Francisco Public Library, 100 Larkin Street at Grove. The Awards Ceremony is held from 1:00–2:30 pm. The ceremony and reception are free and open to the public, so come on by to support John and Angelos Sakkis!
Good luck to John and Angelos! We will be rooting for you.
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E V E N T S :
MARCH 12th
John Sakkis, co-translator of Maribor will be reading as part of 'Lectric Collective'sthird installment of Ekphrastic! Here are details:
Join us big time for our third installment of Ekphrastic! a multimedia reading series.
Poets reading are:
Steven Lance
John Sakkis
C.S. Giscombe
Exhibiting Artists:
Shannon May
Jae Lauren Payne
Jon Stich
Ben Belknap
Peter Schulte
Misako Inaoka
Sarah Ratchye
These artists have been asked to create original pieces in conversation with these poets. This night will act as a culmination of our project, joining the art with the writing that inspired it.
Additional hours for viewing artwork will be held Sunday afternoon, March 13.
Reading material will be for sale, there will be wine.
The 'Lectric Collective is:
Jillian Roberts
Sarah Rothberg
Kelsa Trom
lectriccollective.blogspot.com
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MARCH 14th
Patrick James Dunagan, author of Post-Apollo’s “There Are People Who Say That Painters Shouldn’t Talk : A GUSTONBOOK” will introduce a special screening of a documentary honoring the life and work of painter Philip Guston:
PHILIP GUSTON: A LIFE LIVED + DISCUSSEDClark Coolidge + Bill Berkson, in dialogue
Monday March 14th, 7:00 pm
Balboa Theatre, 3630 Balboa Street, San Francisco
Poets Clark Coolidge and Bill Berkson will discuss the life, work and influence of one of the most intellectually adventurous and poetically gifted of modern painters, in light of the newly published Collected Writings, Lectures and Conversations of Philip Guston (UC Press). Over the course of his life, Guston’s wide reading in literature and philosophy ever deepened his commitment to his art — from his early Abstract Expressionist paintings to his later gritty, intense figurative works.
This event is presented by Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization housed at Bird & Beckett Books and Records in San Francisco.
$10 admission.
For more information, please call 415-586-3733, email events.birdbeckett@yahoo.com, or check www.birdbeckett.com
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MARCH 23rd
Patrick James Dunagan reads at Moe’s Books in Berkeley:
Patrick Dunagan and Julien Poirer, Wednesday, March 23rd
Moe's Books
2476 Telegraph Ave.
Berkeley CA 94704
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APRIL 4TH
Patrick James Dunagan reads at Bird & Beckett Books and Records in San Francisco:
POETS Patrick James Dunagan & Jason Morris, plus an open mic. Jerry Ferraz, MC
Date:Monday April 4, 2011
Time:7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Bird & Beckett Books and Records | 653 Chenery St. San Francisco, CA 94131 | (415) 586-3733 | birdbeckett@yahoo.com | Design and logo by Jack
Monday, February 21, 2011
Simone Fattal : Sculpture Show in Beirut
SIMONE FATTAL
Opening : March 2nd 2011
From 6 to 9 pm
The exhibition will be on view until April 20th 2011
Opening hours : Mon to Fri from 1 to 7pm
Sat 12pm-5pm
From 6 to 9 pm
The exhibition will be on view until April 20th 2011
Opening hours : Mon to Fri from 1 to 7pm
Sat 12pm-5pm
Espace Kettaneh Kunigk (Tanit)
Clemenceau - Hamara area
Gefinor Center - Bloc E - GF
Phone : 961 1 738706
Email : espacekettanehkunigk@cyberia.net.lb
espacekk@gmail.com
website : www.galerietanit.com <http://www.galerietanit.com>
Post-Apollo Mailing List
Hello friends,
We are in the process of revamping our mailing list, both email and snail mail. We use these lists to send announcements about new titles, events and special offers. If you would like to be added to our list or if you are already on our list and would like to update your information, please send us an email with your email and/or mailing address to: postapollo@earthlink.net. Please include the subject line: Mailing List.
Thanks very much!
We are in the process of revamping our mailing list, both email and snail mail. We use these lists to send announcements about new titles, events and special offers. If you would like to be added to our list or if you are already on our list and would like to update your information, please send us an email with your email and/or mailing address to: postapollo@earthlink.net. Please include the subject line: Mailing List.
Thanks very much!
Monday, February 7, 2011
BOOK RELEASE PARTY !!!
So, as many of you know, Patrick James Dunagan's "There Are People Who Think That Painters Shouldn't Talk : A GUSTONBOOK" is now officially out in the world, and officially released as of last Friday's book release party at Lake Gallery in San Francisco. Simone Fattal our dear publisher wasn't able to join us this time as she is currently preparing for an exhibition of her sculptures in Beirut (more about that as the exhibition approaches), but she was there in spirit and in the intriguing figure of her line drawing featured on the cover of A GUSTONBOOK, and in the book's design. Many fine folks were in attendance. I especially appreciated the explicit and implicit interactions between literature and visual art made manifest in the event itself, truly in the spirit of Philip Guston himself. So, in this spirit and in the celebratory spirit of the book and of last Friday's event, I would like to use this blog to say, "Let's do this more often!"
The handsome fruits of our labors.
The handsome book and co.
The postcard for the Lake Gallery show we piggy-backed upon.Big THANK YOU's to Dan Johnson, the curator of Lake Gallery, and to Corey French & Ryan Coffey for welcoming Post-Apollo and sharing their opening night reception with our book release party.
Sneaky photo of Patrick James Dunagan (fellow in glasses).
Sneaky photo of P.J.D. and Ava with party go-ers in foreground.
The gallery featuring artworks by Corey French & Ryan Coffey. Ryan was quoted by Patrick in A GUSTONBOOK saying, "Guston is a god". He commented that the book's cover design (by our dear publisher, Simone Fattal) reminded him of old Grey Wolf Press books--a nice compliment from an artist/bibliophile. Gobs of paint were still WET on Corey's paintings, looking good enough to EAT. And that's David Highsmith (with friends), writer and proprietor of Books & Bookshelves one of the best poetry bookstores in San Francisco with an exceptional collection of chapbooks. B&B carries Post-Apollo books, including A GUSTONBOOK.
Gorgeous Lake Gallery interior with PLANTS and evidence of a great turnout. Lake Gallery occupies the space above PlantIt Earth. There were flats of basil and other plants growing all around us under white and even purple grow lights. Super attractive.
Drew Cushing, writer and publisher of Bent Boy Books, perusing the merchandise.
John Sakkis, poet and translator of Post-Apollo's Maribor represents.CODEX Book Fair: Etel Adnan's "Seasons", "The Spring Flowers Own" and "The Linden Trees Cycle"
This week artist books featuring the work of Etel Adnan will be showing at The CODEX Book Fair on the UC Berkeley Campus. February 6-9. (see below for details)
From Despalles Editions: Seasons with wood block prints by Johannes Strugalla. Click here to view pages from the book.
From Editions Al Manar: Printemps que les fleurs possèdent / Linden Trees, français / anglais, de Etel Adnan, rehaussé d'une aquarelle de l'auteur/peintre. (The Spring Flowers Own, and The linden Trees Cycle) with watercolors by the author.
The CODEX Book Fair, February 6-9
The third biennial CODEX International Book Fair will take place February 6-9, 2011 on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley.
The bookfair will be held in the Pauley Ballroom located in the Martin Luther King Student Union, at the top of Telegraph Avenue.
The price of admission to the fair for the general public for Four days is $20. A single-day ticket is $10. A FOUR-day ticket for students (with I.D.) is $5.
The public hours are:
Feb. 6: 12:00 – 4:00
Feb. 7: 12:30 – 6:30
Feb. 8: 12:30 – 6:30
Feb. 9: 12:30 – 4:30
For further information, please visit:
http://www.codexfoundation.org/bookfair.html
Monday, January 24, 2011
Now Available from The Post Apollo Press
There Are People
Who Think That
Painters Shouldn't Talk
A GUSTONBOOK
by Patrick James Dunagan
Poetry $15 96pgs 978-0942996-73-9
GUSTONBOOK is a workman’s notebook of sorts sketched out in response to years spent contemplating the work and life of painter Philip Guston in relation to the ongoing world, i.e. exhibitions, books on/about Guston, other books/art works amid daily walks, drinks, and talks. More explorations than explanations, the entries contained situate the eye of memory as witness to the immediate surrounds of now: day to day, hour by hour, the concern never (always) changing. As Guston once said, gesturing out the window, “Who wants that? And you can’t have it anyway.”
Sometime in the late 1960s, the mode of thought and talking known as Pondering with Guston became a frequent option for poets, most of them far younger than Guston himself. Aside from his prodigious genius as a painter, Philip Guston was an adept reader of modern poetry and prose, philosophy and art history; an ardent conversationalist and a sharp writer on his own and others’ works. His multifarious Romance of Doubt was an ongoing and fructifying virtuoso performance of irony and dialectic, conscience and devilish enjoyment, sublimity and near-sublime despair. In this provocative sequence, Patrick Dunagan—who never met the artist but knows his work cold, so to speak—has caught the fever. Unlike others so inclined, he engages Guston’s thought very much on his home turf: Poetry, subsuming all matters of “art” (as well as other parts of daily life), is where they join. As Dunagan says, “Person is assemblage…so many comprise a whole.” The book is a form of open conversation; the reader is welcome. —Bill Berkson
Dunagan writes, “A form is that which beckons.” Not only did this poem beckon, it put me in a state of reverberation with my own haunts. Guston’s legacy is paid homage to though the creation of a speculative (or in Guston’s term, baffling) environment. Steps forward in the world of the poem can provide “a longed for /sense of fucked up” because it’s whatever the opposite of numb is—it's the gong an artist rings to make us know that our bodies are surrounded by infinite “companion volumes.” —Stacy Szymaszek
Patrick James Dunagan lives in San Francisco and works at Gleeson Library Geschke Center for the University of San Francisco. A graduate of the Poetics Program New College of California, his writings have appeared in: Amerarcana, Art-voice, Big Bell, Chain, Critical Flame, Fulcrum, Jacket, ON, Polis, Rain Taxi, SF Bay Guardian, The Poetry Project Newsletter, Try!, and Vanitas. Recent chapbooks include: from Chansonniers (Blue Press, 2008), Spirit Guest & Others (Lew Gallery Editions, 2009), Easy Eden w/ Micah Ballard (PUSH, 2009) and her friends down at the french cafe had no english words for me (PUSH, 2010).
Who Think That
Painters Shouldn't Talk
A GUSTONBOOK
by Patrick James Dunagan
Poetry $15 96pgs 978-0942996-73-9
GUSTONBOOK is a workman’s notebook of sorts sketched out in response to years spent contemplating the work and life of painter Philip Guston in relation to the ongoing world, i.e. exhibitions, books on/about Guston, other books/art works amid daily walks, drinks, and talks. More explorations than explanations, the entries contained situate the eye of memory as witness to the immediate surrounds of now: day to day, hour by hour, the concern never (always) changing. As Guston once said, gesturing out the window, “Who wants that? And you can’t have it anyway.”
Sometime in the late 1960s, the mode of thought and talking known as Pondering with Guston became a frequent option for poets, most of them far younger than Guston himself. Aside from his prodigious genius as a painter, Philip Guston was an adept reader of modern poetry and prose, philosophy and art history; an ardent conversationalist and a sharp writer on his own and others’ works. His multifarious Romance of Doubt was an ongoing and fructifying virtuoso performance of irony and dialectic, conscience and devilish enjoyment, sublimity and near-sublime despair. In this provocative sequence, Patrick Dunagan—who never met the artist but knows his work cold, so to speak—has caught the fever. Unlike others so inclined, he engages Guston’s thought very much on his home turf: Poetry, subsuming all matters of “art” (as well as other parts of daily life), is where they join. As Dunagan says, “Person is assemblage…so many comprise a whole.” The book is a form of open conversation; the reader is welcome. —Bill Berkson
Dunagan writes, “A form is that which beckons.” Not only did this poem beckon, it put me in a state of reverberation with my own haunts. Guston’s legacy is paid homage to though the creation of a speculative (or in Guston’s term, baffling) environment. Steps forward in the world of the poem can provide “a longed for /sense of fucked up” because it’s whatever the opposite of numb is—it's the gong an artist rings to make us know that our bodies are surrounded by infinite “companion volumes.” —Stacy Szymaszek
Patrick James Dunagan lives in San Francisco and works at Gleeson Library Geschke Center for the University of San Francisco. A graduate of the Poetics Program New College of California, his writings have appeared in: Amerarcana, Art-voice, Big Bell, Chain, Critical Flame, Fulcrum, Jacket, ON, Polis, Rain Taxi, SF Bay Guardian, The Poetry Project Newsletter, Try!, and Vanitas. Recent chapbooks include: from Chansonniers (Blue Press, 2008), Spirit Guest & Others (Lew Gallery Editions, 2009), Easy Eden w/ Micah Ballard (PUSH, 2009) and her friends down at the french cafe had no english words for me (PUSH, 2010).
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