Sarah Sarai
Sarah Sarai
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Last Login: 11/15/2009
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    Sarah Sarai's Interests
GeneralLearning to ski without leaving my bed. Perfecting being a bad human. Writing more poems. Writing more stories.

Angels: give to The Jenesse Center
Musicbebop Bowie funk early tardy baroque bossanova stringq-s r&b rock heavymetal nonmetallic substances musical alloys Satie Poulenc Al Green Laura Nyro Judee Sill Sun Ra Sun Ra Sun Ra

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

MoviesThe 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
Televisioneverything on CBSarahSarai . . .
Booksgoldenbookoffairies babartheking childsgardenofverses confederacyofdunces mayorofcasterbridge crimeandwhateverthatwas annakareninatakesaspill janeeyre wutheringheights

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)

a FeW ReVIeWS i WRoTe
Jamie Fuller's Diary of Emily Dickinson &
Sven Birkert’s The Gutenberg Elegies and Barry Sanders’ A Is for Ox &
Stephen Dobyn’s Saratoga Backtalk &
Peter Taylor’s In the Tennessee Country & {more}
HeroesEvery damn one of you. Well, almost every damn one of you. A few of you?

Groups: Writing and poetry exposed to agents and publishers (for serious writers and poets)RangeNet's FriendsPoetic Empty.comThe Readers CircleThe SchubertianModern Metrics

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     Sarah Sarai's Details
Status:Swinger
Hometown:an estancia on the pampas of Long Island
Ethnicity:Other
Zodiac Sign:Aquarius
Occupation:Writer. Editor. And more.

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Sarah Sarai : The Future Is Happy : from BlazeVOX [books] : "Eat this book" [Doug Anderson] Posted at 7:58 PM Sep 26
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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.

Poems Online {Stories Below}


Willows Wept Review

Fogged Clarity

The Mississippi Review

Red Peter

Big City Lit

Ghoti

Terrain: A Journal of the Built and Natural Environment

Other Rooms Press' Obsequious Riot

The Smoking Poet {scroll down one poem}

Juice: A Journal of the Ordinary

Blackbox

The Tipton Poetry Journal

The Minnesota Review

FRiGG.com and FRiGG.com.

Stories Onllne {Poems Above}


The Amazon Mountains of Tibet {in} Storyglossia.

She Must Be Killed {in} The Houston Literary Review. {Browser sensitive} {Aren't we all} How to do it. Here, at the bowling alley?

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.

Stars {in} VerbSap. What kind of mole talks about anxiety?


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.

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michael palmieri

michael palmieri



Nov 7 2009 3:35 AM



Hello Sarah,

An operatic warhorse!



Music:
Quando Me'n Vo from La Boheme

Composer:
Giacomo Puccini

Performers:
Anna Netrebko - soprano


All my best,
michael

..Today Beethoven is in my myspace classical music-video blog.


KaiRoS PoeTRy CaFe (2 pm, 2nd Sun. of Ev. Month)

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Nov 2 2009 2:34 PM

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michael palmieri

michael palmieri



Oct 31 2009 2:52 AM



Hello Sarah,

Bach said, "A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit."



Music:
Prelude from Partitia in E for solo violin

Composer:
J. S. Bach

Performers:
Vanessa-Mae - violin


All my best,
michael

..Today the poignant Chopin and the virtuoso Lang Lang are again in my myspace classical music-video blog.


michael palmieri

michael palmieri



Oct 30 2009 4:29 AM



Hello Sarah,

An elated Cinderella sings with ecstatic virtuosity!



Music:
"Non piu mesta" from "La Cenerentola"

Composer:
Gioachino Rossini

Performer:
Cecilia Bartoli - soprano


All my best,
michael

..Today the piano virtuoso Lang Lang plays Chopin in my myspace classical music-video blog.


michael palmieri

michael palmieri



Oct 29 2009 3:33 AM



Hello Sarah,

Eight weeks till the holidays!!



"For Unto Us A Child Is Born" & "Glory to God" separated by recitatives for soprano from "Messiah"

Composer:
Georg Friedrich Händel

Performers:
The Choir Cantillation
The New Baroque Ensemble
Sara Macliver – Soprano
Antony Walker – Conductor


All my best,
michael

..Today the desperate, weeping, dreamy Chopin is in my myspace classical music-video blog.



michael palmieri

michael palmieri



Oct 28 2009 5:03 AM



Hello Sarah,



Music:
Alma Grande e Nobile Core – concert aria

Composer:
W. A. Mozart

Performers:
Elina Garanca - Mezzosoprano
Concertgebouw Orchestra
Mariss Jansons – Conductor

Translation: 

"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.



michael palmieri

michael palmieri



Oct 27 2009 3:59 AM



Hello Sarah,

Leaves me breathless!



Music:
Der Rosenkavalier - Finale Act 3

Composer:
Richard Strauss

Performance:
Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, 1/31/2009


All my best,
michael

..Today the exciting, unceasing, dissonant, modern American violin concerto of John Adams is in my myspace classical music-video blog.



michael palmieri

michael palmieri



Oct 26 2009 3:56 AM



Hello Sarah,

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.


erick

erick masse



Oct 25 2009 4:14 PM


 

michael palmieri

michael palmieri



Oct 25 2009 3:52 AM



Hello Sarah,

One of the late Romantic era's most definitive compositions!



Music:
Serenade for Strings in C major, Op. 48, Move 1

Composer:
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Performers:
UBS Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra
Maxim Vengerov – conductor


All my best,
michael

..Today the fabulously sumptuous cello concerto of Elgar is in my myspace classical music-video blog.



michael palmieri

michael palmieri



Oct 24 2009 4:23 AM



Hello Sarah,

Lyrical simplicity and single-hearted love in the atmosphere of hypocrisy, jealousy, double-dealing and feuding in medieval Florence!



Music:
"O mio babbino caro" from Gianni Schicchi

Composer:
Giacomo Puccini

Performer:
Kiri Te Kanawa


All my best,
michael

..Today an intense, brilliant and epic Bruch Violin Concerto is in my myspace classical music-video blog.



michael palmieri

michael palmieri



Oct 23 2009 4:09 AM



Hello Sarah,



Straightforward & simply elegant!

Music:
Sonata K.545, movement 2

Composer:
Wofgang A. Mozart

Performer:
Mitsuko Uchida


All my best,
michael

..Today the monumental Grieg Piano Concerto is in my myspace classical music-video blog.

Tragedy: Live in Philly 11/20, UK Dec. ’09!!

Tragedy: Live in Philly 11/20, UK Dec. ’09!!



Oct 21 2009 4:53 PM

TRAGEDY vs. DANGEROUS @ CMJ Tribute Wars!!!

Saturday October 24th @ Le Poisson Rouge in NYC

Doors 11pm


michael palmieri

michael palmieri



Oct 21 2009 3:58 AM



Hello Sarah,



Music that is forever! Passion that is universal!

Music:
Symphony No. 4, Movement 3

Composer:
Gustav Mahler

Performers:
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Leonard Bernstein – conductor


All my best,
michael

..Today an elegant Mozart flute concerto is in my myspace classical music-video blog.



michael palmieri

michael palmieri



Oct 20 2009 4:01 AM



Hello Sarah,



"Soul food!"

Music:
Impromptu – Op. 90, No. 3

Composer:
Franz Schubert

Performer:
Alfred Brendel


All my best,
michael

..Stravinsky's groundbreaking 1910 ballet music from the "Firebird" is in my myspace classical music-video blog.



michael palmieri

michael palmieri



Oct 18 2009 1:05 AM



Hello Sarah,



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.



SoulfulPen

Melanie C. Jordan



Oct 17 2009 8:53 PM

Thank you Sarah Sarai for supporting
"Imagine " Art Magazine.
http://www.soulfulpen.com
michael palmieri

michael palmieri



Oct 5 2009 2:55 AM



Hello Sarah,

Lush and evocative!



Music:
Quintet for Piano and Strings in E flat Major, Op.44, Move. 2

Composer:
Robert Schumann

Performers:
Hélène Grimaud - Piano
Renaud Capuçon - Violin
Sayaka Shoji – Violin
Lars Anders Tomter - Viola
Mischa Maisky – Cello


All my best,
michael

..Today another huge, touching and most compelling piece by Mahler is in my myspace classical music-video blog.



Luciole Press

Luciole Press



Oct 5 2009 2:10 AM


Thank you so much for the birthday wishes!

Karen








10,000 Girls Called Sarah

10,000 Girls Called Sarah



Oct 2 2009 10:00 AM

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Sep 30 2009 9:27 PM


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David Rowe

David Rowe



Sep 30 2009 8:06 PM

Happy Rumi's Birthday!
 
 
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Sep 26 2009 1:01 PM

best wishes with your upcoming event!!
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Sep 15 2009 7:16 PM

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erick

erick masse



Sep 15 2009 5:22 PM

thank you for the add
 

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