Duration: 45 minuts
Non-profit project
Admission $7, students/seniors/children $5, members FREE
Free street parking.
Monday, November 28, 2011
Just added: December 19, Monday 8:00 PM FESTIVAL ETERNAL TOUR AND ENSEMBLE VIDE PRESENT: DESERTING LAS VEGAS
A performance with music, text and dance, in one prologue and four acts, for six performers.
Duration: 45 minuts
Non-profit project
Admission $7, students/seniors/children $5, members FREE
Free street parking.
Duration: 45 minuts
Non-profit project
Admission $7, students/seniors/children $5, members FREE
Free street parking.
Monday, November 21, 2011
Check out our very own Beyond Baroque Music channel
Now on youtube.
Click on the youtube button and see what Beyond Music is all about:
November 27, Sunday 7:00 PM ONE AND ONLY: THE UNTOLD STORY OF ON THE ROAD WITH GERALD NICOSIA
Discover the Hidden History of the Girl Who Went On the Road with Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady
On-line advanced ticket sale available NOW!
http://bboneandonlyevent.eventbrite.com/
The book will be published in November, to coincide with the release of the long-awaited WALTER SALLES movie of On the Road later this fall, in which KRISTEN STEWART will portray Marylou, the character based on Lu Anne Henderson. The actors starring in the film weren’t born when On the Road was published. To educate them, Director Salles created “Beat boot camp,” enlisting ONE AND ONLY authorGERALD NICOSIA as the first instructor.
Lu Anne has routinely been portrayed as a teenage slut, which is how she came off in Carolyn Cassady’s memoir Heart Beat, made into a major movie in 1980. Finally, in ONE AND ONLY, we see Henderson as astutely sensitive and keenly observant about her own life, that of her friends, and the human condition. In preparing for her role, KRISTEN STEWART was having a hard time making sense of how Lu Anne could still love Neal, despite his endless cheating on her. After listening to the taped interview that is at the heart of ONE AND ONLY, Kristen said she found the key to playing Marylou in the movie “as her own woman, not Neal’s.”
At last, through the indefatigable research of GERALD NICOSIA, we meet the real woman who sparked a literary revolution—in effect, making the Beat Generation possible, as well as giving Kerouac the material for On the Road.
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Gerald Nicosia
On-line advanced ticket sale available NOW!
http://bboneandonlyevent.eventbrite.com/
Beat historian GERALD NICOSIA spent years looking for LU ANNE HENDERSON, the woman who started JACK KEROUAC and NEAL CASSADY on their journey, because he knew that if not for her, the two men wouldn’t have taken the road trip that became On the Road. With the help of Lu Anne’s daughter Anne Marie Santos, Nicosia tells the story of the beautiful 15-year-old girl who loved both men, and taught them how to love each other, in ONE AND ONLY: The Untold Story of On The Road, being published by Viva Editions in November.
Nicosia had interviewed Henderson in 1978, when she was 47 and he was just in his early 20s, and though he said “a lot of Lu Anne was beyond me then,” he understood what a great gift she had given him. She had long strenuously avoided the spotlight—Nicosia only found her through an off-hand comment from a fellow Beat aficionado—and she quickly dropped out of sight again after they spoke. As the author of Memory Babe, widely regarded as the definitive work on JACK KEROUAC, he alone recognized her secret impact on 20th century literature. ONE AND ONLY includes the never-before-published transcription of the 34,000-word taped interview and is illustrated with fifty-five rare archival black-and-white photographs, including priceless pictures of NEAL CASSADY and JACK KEROUAC, ALAN GINSBERG and others, many of which have never before been seen.
Viva Editions Associate Publisher Brenda Knight, herself a Beat scholar and author of Women of the Beat Generation, winner of the 1997 American Book Award, said, “There are many ‘Beat bombshells’ of new information. This book will be controversial and a major contribution to the oeuvre. People will read it alongside On the Road, scene by scene.” Nicosia had interviewed Henderson in 1978, when she was 47 and he was just in his early 20s, and though he said “a lot of Lu Anne was beyond me then,” he understood what a great gift she had given him. She had long strenuously avoided the spotlight—Nicosia only found her through an off-hand comment from a fellow Beat aficionado—and she quickly dropped out of sight again after they spoke. As the author of Memory Babe, widely regarded as the definitive work on JACK KEROUAC, he alone recognized her secret impact on 20th century literature. ONE AND ONLY includes the never-before-published transcription of the 34,000-word taped interview and is illustrated with fifty-five rare archival black-and-white photographs, including priceless pictures of NEAL CASSADY and JACK KEROUAC, ALAN GINSBERG and others, many of which have never before been seen.
The book will be published in November, to coincide with the release of the long-awaited WALTER SALLES movie of On the Road later this fall, in which KRISTEN STEWART will portray Marylou, the character based on Lu Anne Henderson. The actors starring in the film weren’t born when On the Road was published. To educate them, Director Salles created “Beat boot camp,” enlisting ONE AND ONLY authorGERALD NICOSIA as the first instructor.
Lu Anne has routinely been portrayed as a teenage slut, which is how she came off in Carolyn Cassady’s memoir Heart Beat, made into a major movie in 1980. Finally, in ONE AND ONLY, we see Henderson as astutely sensitive and keenly observant about her own life, that of her friends, and the human condition. In preparing for her role, KRISTEN STEWART was having a hard time making sense of how Lu Anne could still love Neal, despite his endless cheating on her. After listening to the taped interview that is at the heart of ONE AND ONLY, Kristen said she found the key to playing Marylou in the movie “as her own woman, not Neal’s.”
At last, through the indefatigable research of GERALD NICOSIA, we meet the real woman who sparked a literary revolution—in effect, making the Beat Generation possible, as well as giving Kerouac the material for On the Road.
________ Gerald NicosiaStarting in February of 2012: Latin American Poetry Workshop With Yago Cura!
Just in:
Yago Cura, publisher of the online journal Hinchas de Poesia (www.hinchasdepoesia.com), will serve as facilitator of the free workshops. Each session will address the work of a different 20th Century Latin American poet, and allow students to generate a piece inspired by some of their signature poems. More details to follow soon.
Stay tuned for more details to come soon.!
Your Beyond Baroque Team
Saturday, November 12, 2011
CLAYTON ESHLEMAN ON AIME CÉSAIRE
CLAYTON ESHLEMAN will be reading from his co-translations of the unexpurgated 1948 edition of AIME CÉSAIRE'S Solar Throat Slashed, recently published by Wesleyan University Press.
CLAYTON ESHLEMAN has been at the heart of American poetry since the early 1960's. His poems, critical essays, and translations of poets as important and diverse as CÉSAR VALLEJO, AIME CÉSAIRE, PABLO NERUDA, ANTONIN ARTAUD, VLADIMIR HOLAN, HENRI MICHAUX, and BERNARD BADOR have earned him (and his fellow co-translators in some cases) international acclaim, as testified by a US National Book Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, numerous grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and two Landon Translation Prizes from the Academy of American Poets. In 1994, he was a fellow at the Rockefeller Study Center in Bellagio, Italy, where he wrote a 50 page poem on HIERONYMUS BOSCH'S The Garden of Earthly Delights.
Eshleman was also the founder and editor of two of the most important literary journals in the latter half of the 20th century: Caterpillar (1967-1973, 20 issues) and Sulfur (1981-2000, 46 issues). During his career he has published over forty books, including, between 2000 and 2007, the following: three collections of poetry—My Devotion, An Alchemist with One Eye on Fire, and Reciprocal Distillations; three translations—AIME CÉSAIRE'S Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, a second edition (with many new texts) of his “selected translations,” Conductors of the Pit, and The Complete Poetry of César Vallejo; and three collections of prose—Companion Spider, Archaic Design, and Juniper Fuse: Upper Paleolithic Imagination & the Construction of the Underworld. This last title is a groundbreaking collection of poetry and prose that is the culmination of Eshleman's twenty-five years of research into the origins of image-making via the Ice Age painted caves of southwestern France. In 2008, Black Widow Press in Boston brought out a 630-page Clayton Eshleman Reader, The Grindstone of Rapport, collecting 40 years of poetry, prose, and translations. A new collection of poetry, Anticline, appeared in the spring of 2010.
Eshleman continues to live in Ypsilanti, Michigan, a Professor Emeritus at Eastern Michigan University, with his wife Caryl, who for forty years has been his editor and who for nineteen years was the Managing Editor of Sulfur magazine.
Admission $7, students/seniors/children $5, members FREE
Free street parking.
Friday, November 4, 2011
Big Sunday ahead of us! 4 events to choose from or come to all of them! See you there;)
November 6, Sunday 2:00 PM
THE MAN WHO NEVER DIED WITH WILLIAM M. ADLER AND ROSS ALTMAN
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November 6, Sunday 5:00 PM
FIRST SUNDAY OPEN READING - FREE event
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November 6, Sunday 7:30 PM
JAMES RAGAN SOLO
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November 6, Sunday 9:00 PM
THE DARK KINGDOM Of KENNETH PATCHEN
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Location: Beyond Baroque, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
For more information visit our website at www.beyondbaroque.org
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November 6, Sunday 5:00 PM
FIRST SUNDAY OPEN READING - FREE event
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November 6, Sunday 7:30 PM
JAMES RAGAN SOLO
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November 6, Sunday 9:00 PM
THE DARK KINGDOM Of KENNETH PATCHEN
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Location: Beyond Baroque, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
For more information visit our website at www.beyondbaroque.org
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