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You Must Hear
Mark Cross...he has soul or perhaps funk, I can't quite put my finger on it; *BUY* "This Journey In" AND "Love Issue" by The Rebirth
Movies
The Black Stallion, The Ringer, Office Space, Rois et Reine, Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, Grizzly Man, Smiles of a Summer Night, Carry On Nurse, Portrait of a Lady, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, 25th Hour, Escape from New York, Aguirre, Talk to Her, All About My Mother, Open City, Il Messia, Dracula (1931 and Andy Warhol's), Miracle, whole bunch a others
By Me aWaiTinG a PuBLisHeR Her Stories {title changes} The To-Do List Manifesto {novel} To be published in 2009: The Future Is Happy (BlazeVox; poetry collection)
About me: To be said in Sarah Sarai's defense: Please check back later.
My 3,000 Loving Arms await. Read my blog! at [since Myspace isn't letting me link to it:] http://my3000lovingarms.blogspot.com/
Readings for Nov/Dec:
Wednesday, October 28, 8:30 p.m., Free - Open Mic
Nuclear Poetry Series curated by Aaron Wimmer
Sarah Sarai + Christine Hamm
Elmo, 156 - 7th Avenue btwn. 19th/20th Streets
http://www.nuclearpoetry.com/NUCLEARpoetry/Point_A.html
Wednesday, December 9, 7 pm, Free!
Uphook Press
Sarah Sarai + Samantha Barrow, Thomas Fucaloro, Christian Georgescu, Robert Harris, Joan Payne Kincaid, Mary McLaughlin Slechta, Geoffrey Jason Kagan Trenchard, Joanna Valente
KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street, btwn. 3rd and 2nd Avenues
Recent readings: Mad Hatter's Review / Earshot Series / Van Gogh's Radio Ear / Other Rooms Press, The Secret City, The Ear Inn, Otto's Shrunken Head, The Cornelia Street Cafe, Saturn Series, Community Garden at 6th & B
The Future Is Happy
can be purchased at http://www.blazevox.org/bk-ss2.htm and Amazon. Your independent bookstore can order it from SPD. Read some poets' reactions to the book:
Sarah Sarai’s poems are charged with the terrible presence of the now and the dangerous fact of words. This is poetry as it should be. Scary, strange, generous, intensely in a physical world while illuminating an unimaginable spiritual world. This is writing that sings. The song it sings is the song of our hearts.
—Jack Wiler
With both wit and tenderness, Sarah Sarai rigorously navigates the dialectics of knowledge and not knowing, thinking and being, the fantastic and the quotidian, the spiritual and the earthy, in language that is by turns crisp and lush. These are heady, whip-smart, funny and moving poems in which time becomes fluid and vertical—high-rise pageant of art, ephemera, filigree and memory through which our physical and temporal bodies spark and fall much too quickly.
—Lee Ann Roripaugh
How often we hear it: "No ideas but in things." But Sarai throws pie in the face of such doctrine, and a tasty pie it is. Here, abstractions such as connection, morality and "sloppy forgiveness" form the crust of her work. But the filling, juicy with the polymorphous perversity of a living breathing world, teems with a compote of voices, textures, colors. Socrates, James Brown, Anna Karenina are tossed together with bebop, chili peppers and "100 billion neurons nipping maybe 268 mph." So much to chew on! The poet serves it all with an uncommon heart and broad-ranging intellect. The result is writing which is naked, urgent, frisky and sublime.
—Nina Corwin
Sarah Sarai’s poetry is hot-wired and hip-swivel all the way up the spine! Emily Dickinson is Jewish and Moses breaks tablets for stellar sex. She’s retained the best of modernism (especially that syncopated variable foot Charlie Parker bop in the word-love) and moved onto new red earth for her own vision. Eat this book! It’s terrific.
—Doug Anderson
About me: Sarah Sarai has taught Comp. 101 {never 99 or 102.5} or creative writing at BMCC/CUNY, Fordham, Pace, Antioch's Seattle campus…and St. Mathias High School (Southern Cal.). She also works 1-on-1 {fiction and poetry}, and as an added bonus advises on deportment and etiquette.
Other means of remaining a viable taxpayer {Sarah Sarai is patriotic}: Copywriter: Words shall be fashioned to suit your every mood. Copyeditor in medical education, finance, law and advertising. Freelance editor. Of particular interest to the flailing: Sarah Sarai is willing to edit your life.
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Speak Up, Voice {in} Weber Studies. Ida, who owned a pet shop in a green wooden building, low and one-story like a gas station in the desert, phoned.
Other stories appear sorta gauzey-like in The Ampersand
and Tampa Review and South Dakota Review and Raven Chronicles and stet and West and The Antigonish Review and The Written Arts and Webster Review and Bellowing Ark.
A story is forthcoming in 2009 in the Aquamarine issue of The Fairy Tale Review.
Other poems are in Flaneur Foundry and in Willows Wept Review and in Sprung Formal (Kanas City Art Institute) and in Fifth Wednesday Review and in Big City Lit and Fogged Clarity and Eleven Eleven and Ghoti Magazine and The Threepenny Review and Terrain.org and Taiga and Main Street Rag and Other Rooms Press and PANK and The Columbia Review and The Smoking Poet and The Powhatan Review and Asbestos and Potomac Review and Fine Madness and Numinous and Helix Magazine and ZYZZYVA and The Ester Republic and the ether or your dreams and certainly my dreams and other places yet to be unveiled. Poems forthcoming in 2009 in the Poets Wear Prada Insects anthology and in Mad Hatter's Review and in you say, say from Uphook Press and in Boston Review and in Say it Loud: Poems about James Brown and God knows where else. Did I mention my collection, The Future Is Happy? Available as described above.
Who I'd like to meet: My great nephew. Ricky Jay. William Blake. Elizabeth Bishop. Brian Wilson. Hafiz. Gracie Allen. Sojourner Truth. Bach. A publisher who loves my work. You.
"A great soul and noble heart always scorns your type. I am a noblewoman, who is used to ceremony, and I know how to make myself attended to. Go, talk to that ungrateful man, you will tell him that I am faithful. But he does not merit forgiveness. Yes, I want to take revenge."
(Mozart's arias often contain moments of genuine emotion, including anger and scorn.)
All my best, michael
..Today music by Béla Bartók, considered to be one of the greatest composers of the 20th century, is in my myspace classical music-video blog.
Brahms became attached to Schumann's wife, the composer and pianist Clara, fourteen years his senior, with whom he would carry on a lifelong, emotionally passionate, but probably platonic, relationship.
Music: Brahms - Piano Quintet in Fm, Move. 4
Composer: Johannes Brahms
Performers: Pinkhas Zukerman - Violin I Ida Kavafian - Violin II Gary Hoffman - Cello Paul Neubauer - Viola David Golub – Piano
All my best, michael
..Today wonderful piano concerto music of Prokofiev is in my myspace classical music-video blog.
One can disregard the pitch for religious vocations in this video and simply be saturated by the music. Music in western civilization began with and evolved from Gregorian chant. As a boy, I studied with Benedictine monks in a monastery. We sang!!!
Music: Gregorian Chant
Composer: Traditional
Performer: Monastic Choir of the Abbey of Notre Dame de Fontgombault
All my best, michael
..A gorgeous cello and piano piece - unusual for Chopin, whose output was mostly solo piano music, is in my myspace classical music-video blog.
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