http://rattapallax.com/blog Tue, 25 Dec 2007 14:30:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en James Ragan reading “The Hunger Wall” from Rattapallax 5. James Ragan is the author of five books of poetry including In The Talking Hours, Womb-Weary, The World Sholdering "I", The Hunger Wall and Lusions, from Grove Press, as well as co-editor of Yevgeny Yevtushenko's Collected Poems. Director of the Graduate Professional ... http://rattapallax.com/blog/2007/12/25/james-ragan-the-hunger-wall/ Jeanne Marie Beaumont reading “Hotel Grimm” from Rattapallax 6, Jeanne Marie Beaumont earned her MFA from Columbia University. Her poems have been published in seven anthologies and over fifty magazines and newspapers including Boston Review, DoubleTake, Harper's, The Manhattan Review, The Nation, New American Writing, Pleiades, Verse, and Witness. She won ... http://rattapallax.com/blog/2007/12/25/jeanne-marie-beaumont-hotel-grimm/ Meean Alexander reading “Bengali Market” from Rattapallax 10. Meena Alexander was born in India, raised there and in Sudan. At eighteen she went to study in England. Her first poems were published when she was a teenager in Sudan, in Arabic translation.. She has read at Poetry International London, Struga Poetry ... http://rattapallax.com/blog/2007/12/25/meena-alexander-bengali-market/ Alberto Martins’ solo show “Eem Transito” at Estacao Pinacoteca” in Sao Paulo, Brasil in September 2007. Download for ipod. Alberto Martins is a poet and visual artist. His books include Cais (poetry, Editora 34, 2002), Goeldi: história de horizonte (MAC/Paulinas, 1995 – winner of Jabuti Prize for best literature book for ... http://rattapallax.com/blog/2007/12/23/alberto-martins-em-transito/ Interview and photography Margo Berdeshevsky The hotel lobby is elegant and ultra modern in the city of light, Paris. I learn every corner of it, as I wait. I am patient. And I wait. I have an interview with Claude M'Barali, alias MC Solaar. I will wait for the Senegalese, Dakar-born ... http://rattapallax.com/blog/2007/11/22/the-age-of-mc-solaar/   Stones are much slower than animals. Plants give more smell when the rain falls. When winter comes, swallows fly to summer. Pigeons love corn and breadcrumbs. The rains come from water the sun evaporates. When people come from far away they carry bags. When fish swim together they form a ... http://rattapallax.com/blog/2007/11/22/brazilian-rocker-poets-arnaldo-antunes/   [ Pressure ]   When I see you climb the walls I climb them too No way out of the cosmic mudhole! No way out of the telephone booth The classroom, the igloo No way out of the church, the temple, the mosque The A train the D train the noisy bar the department store No way out ... http://rattapallax.com/blog/2007/11/22/anne-waldman-with-pavla-jonssonova/   [ Verses For The New Amazing Grace ] The grace of all the bards who pen Their words do transport me Sweet vowels & consonants strengthen Goddess Poesy's legacyHeart-pearls roll off the poets' tongues Who chant in praise of Love Troubadours blest with hearty lungs Esoterics zapped from aboveSapho's bite & Shakespeare's wit & Dante's mystical climb Dickinson's rhyme, ... http://rattapallax.com/blog/2007/11/22/anne-waldman-with-pavla-jonssonova-2/   PEDRO ALMODÓVAR REKINDLED DYING ART FORMS in his ncredible Talk to Her, a theatrical tour-de-force sprawled across a two-hour cinematic landscape. Reviving ballet, silent movies, and bullfighting, he gracefully shoved back instant-gratification culture's impatient dogma, reminding us of beauty in temperance, dedication and determination. The film was utterly beautiful; Almodóvar's ... http://rattapallax.com/blog/2007/11/22/caetano-veloso-and-the-meaning-of-exile/ ELECTRONIC MUSIC IS NOT THE FUTURE. IT IS THE MOMENT. Romantics need not worry, for, to dispel the mystique, there requires as much human input and creativity into making a progressive, inspired club cut as any piece of music. Computers are yet another extension of earthly possibility; sounds rendered are ... http://rattapallax.com/blog/2007/11/21/navigating-the-moment-the-now-sound-of-brazil/