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Crediting Saul Bass [by Stefanie Green]
The credit sequences that open a movie constitute an under-appreciated art form, as you will conclude if you watch an hour of Saul Bass’s film title sequences on youtube.com [https://youtu.be/qqM3McG4-LE ]. Distinctive and recognizable,…
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Met Percent: Week Twenty-two [by Alec Bernstein]
Still Life With . . . Left: Still Life with Flowers and Fruit, Henri Fantin-Latour, 1866, gallery 824.Top right: Still Life with a Glass and Oysters, Jan Davidsz de Heem, 1640, gallery 964.Center right:…
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For Summer: Poems by Latina/o/xs: Edwin Torres
Subordinate Volca (after the eighth elegy) by Edwin Torres I dreamt I was holding a sea creature, tightly, in bed, the room was not mine, but a long darkened space with no walls, almost…
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“The Humble Crafter” (for Paul Violi) [by Michael Quattrone]
The Humble Crafterfor Paul Violi I am thinking of you and the whimsical grace with which you lived and taught; the humor you enjoyed, imbued; the daily rumor of your wit; life’s confusion, its…
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“Of Self and Shadow” [by Molly Arden]
1. Molly is the only woman she knows who talks about herselfin the third person. She used to likepeople but now she's a misanthropewho has read Moliere. O, to be a famous recluse! 2. Molly…
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On Paul Violi’s Birthday: A Poem [by David Lehman]
Look for Remus in the index of a bookAnd you are bound to get “See Romulus”Which is perfectly logical but makes me wonderAbout indexes, or indices, and why I prefer the formerAs the plural…
