Below are some candid photos I’ve taken of Poetryland’s Personalities.
“One of the marks of our world is perhaps this reversal: we live according to a generalized image-repertoire. Consider the United Sates, where everything is transformed into images: only images exist and are produced and are consumes… Such a reversal necessarily raises the ethical question: not that the image is immoral, irreligious, or diabolic (as some have declared it, upon the advent of the Photograph), but because, when generalized, it completely de-realizes the human world of conflicts and desires, under cover of illustrating it.”
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- Mark Strand, Star Black & John Ashbery
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- Mark Strand
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- John Ashbery & David Lehman
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- Harold Bloom
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- Timothy Donnelly
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- Richard Howard
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- Christian Hawkey & Dara Wier
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- Christian Hawkey
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- James Tate
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- Ruth Stone
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- Frank O’Hara’s grave
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- Lucie Brock-Broido & Tree Swenson
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- Paul Mariani
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- anonymous poet
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- Adam Zagajewski
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- John Yau
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- John Ashbery (iPhone wallpaper)
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- Christopher Ricks
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- Linda Gregg
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- Hart Crane
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- Fanny Howe
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- Derek Walcott & Lucie Brock-Broido
“Each photograph is read as the private appearance of its referent: the age of Photography corresponds precisely to the explosion of the private into the public, or rather into the creation of a new social value, which is the publicity of the private: the private is consumes as such, publicly.”
“The Photograph is an extended, loaded evidence — as if it caricatured not the figure of what it represents (quite the converse) but its very existence… The Photograph then becomes a bizarre medium, a new form of hallucination: false on the level of perception, true on the level of time: a temporal hallucination, so to speak, a modest, shared hallucination (on the one hand ‘it is not there,’ on the other ‘but it has indeed been’): a mad image, chafed by reality.”
