26 Sunday Apr 2015
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David Abrams, friendships in art, letters from painters, Matisse, Picasso, Sunday Sentence, women artists
My weekly contribution to David Abrams’ “Sunday Sentence” project in which participants share the best sentence read during the past week “out of context and without commentary.”
This epistle acted like banderillas on a fierce bull.
SOURCE: “Some Letters” chapter in Francoise Gilot’s Matisse and Picasso: A Friendship in Art
19 Sunday Apr 2015
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circus poems, Cradle of the American Circus, David Abrams, Elephant Hotel, Historical poems, Jo Pitkin, Somers NY, Sunday Sentence, The History Press, women poets
My weekly contribution to David Abrams’ “Sunday Sentence” project in which participants share the best sentence read during the past week “out of context and without commentary.”
Imagine an architect’s paradise,
to solve the tough problems
of height and width and weight,
how to soundproof the beehive
of cramped rooms that will echo
with trumpeting blasts of rage,
whether showers are optional,
the logistical nightmare of trunks.
SOURCE: Opening lines of “Elephant Hotel” from Jo Pitkin’s Cradle of the American Circus: Poems from Somers, NY
12 Sunday Apr 2015
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My weekly contribution to David Abrams’ “Sunday Sentence” project in which participants share the best sentence read during the past week “out of context and without commentary.”
Somehow I too must discover the smallest constituent element, the cell of my art, the tangible immaterial means of expressing everything.
SOURCE: from Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters on Cézanne.
05 Sunday Apr 2015
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A Letter to William Carlos Williams, David Abrams, Kenneth Rexroth, poetry, Sunday Sentence, The Signatures of All Things
My weekly contribution to David Abrams’ “Sunday Sentence” project in which participants share the best sentence read during the past week “out of context and without commentary.”
Dear Bill,
When I search the past for you,
Sometimes I think you are like
St. Francis, whose flesh went out
Like a happy cloud from him,
And merged with every lover —
SOURCE: Opening line from Kenneth Rexroth‘s poem “A Letter to William Carlos Williams,” found in his The Signatures of All Things collection.
08 Sunday Mar 2015
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David Abrams, Louise Erdrich, Native American authors, Sunday Sentence, The Master Butchers Singing Club, Women writers
My weekly contribution to David Abrams’ “Sunday Sentence” project in which participants share the best sentence read during the past week “out of context and without commentary.”
When he woke in Germany in late November of the year 1918, he was only a few centimeters away from becoming French on Clemenceau and Wilson’s redrawn map, a fact that mattered nothing compared to what there might be to eat.
SOURCE: Ojibwe writer Louise Erdrich‘s novel The Master Butchers Singing Club
18 Sunday Jan 2015
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Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin, David Abrams, early America, historical letters, Jill Lepore, Sunday Sentence, women in history, Women writers
My weekly contribution to David Abrams’ “Sunday Sentence” project in which participants share the best sentence read during the past week “out of context and without commentary.”
Spelling is part of the story.
SOURCE: Jill Lepore‘s non-fiction portrait “Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin”
21 Sunday Dec 2014
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best sentence, Colm Toibin, David Abrams, Irish novelist, Nora Webster, Simon & Schuster, Sunday Sentence
My weekly contribution to David Abrams’ “Sunday Sentence” project in which participants share the best sentence read during the past week “out of context and without commentary.”
The expression on Catherine’s face when she saw her hair had not helped; the fact that she had not spoken immediately meant that she was saving it up for later, and she would, Nora was sure, have a great deal to say.
SOURCE: The prolific Colm Toibin‘s latest novel Nora Webster (Simon& Schuster).
14 Sunday Dec 2014
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David Abrams, Getty Iris Magazine, My Lifelong Quest for Color, Sunday Sentence, The Brilliant History of Color in Art, Victoria Finlay, women essayists
My weekly contribution to David Abrams’ “Sunday Sentence” project in which participants share the best sentence read during the past week “out of context and without commentary.”
SOURCE: “My Lifelong Quest for Color” essay by Victoria Finlay, author of The Brilliant History of Color in Art (Getty Museum, 2014).
07 Sunday Dec 2014
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Contemporary cartoonists, David Abrams, Hilary Chute, interviews with women artists, Lynda Barry, Outside the Box, Sunday Sentence, University of Chicago Press
My weekly contribution to David Abrams’ “Sunday Sentence” project in which participants share the best sentence read during the past week “out of context and without commentary.”
I had this series that was basically women talking to men in the bar, but the men were giant cactuses, and the women were trying to decide if they should sleep with them or not.
SOURCE: Multi-talented Lynda Barry in conversation with Hilary Chute in Outside the Box: Interviews with Contemporary Cartoonists
30 Sunday Nov 2014
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David Abrams, Empire State College Writing Center, Food for thought, Nonfiction resources, Qualities of Academic Writing, Sunday Sentence
My weekly contribution to David Abrams’ “Sunday Sentence” project in which participants share the best sentence read during the past week “out of context and without commentary.”
Writing provides food for thought — it enables you to knead small, half-baked words and sentences to grow great big loaves of satisfying thought that lead to more thought.
SOURCE: “Qualities of Academic Writing” section of Empire State College’s Writing Center
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