Read By: Catherine Barnett
Catherine Barnett on her selections:
Because there are so many texts I love and because of the radical adjustments we\u2019ve had to make in the space-time continuum, I chose to curate a small collection of poems and prose excerpts, each of which takes notice of, or is somehow guided by, time. I\u2019ve included the following poems and excerpts; a collection I\u2019m calling \u201cOn the Specious Present and the So-Called Obvious Past.\u201d
From Samuel Beckett's "Texts for Nothing, #3"
Dominique Bechard, "Half a Party"
Gwendolyn Brooks, "An Aspect of Love: Alive in the Fire and Ice"
Guillaume Apollinaire, \u201cThere Is\u201d or "Il y a"
John Berger, from "Paul Strand"
Saskia Hamilton, \u201cOn. On. Stop. Stop.\u201d
Wislawa Szymborska, "May 16, 1973"
Yiyun Li, from "Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life"
Jean Valentine, \u201cFor Love\u201d
Rick Barot, \u201cThe Galleons 4\u201d
Ellen Bryant Voigt, \u201cStorm"
Paul Celan, "So many constellations" (trans. Michael Hamburger)
Music: "Shift of Currents" by Blue Dot Sessions // CC BY-NC 2.0