Monthly Archives: June 2017

Notebooks

Posted on June 27, 2017 by Scott Abbott

I’m writing a biography, of sorts, of Zarko Radakovic. Fragments of biography. Flights of fancy interspersed with passages from my notebooks. Reading through a notebook I filled on a trip to Alsace and Paris (in Paris I met Zarko and … Continue reading →

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Zarko’s Notebook/My Notebook

Posted on June 24, 2017 by Scott Abbott

The previous two posts featured Alex’s notebook and Peter Handke’s notebook . Now Zarko’s notebook with spaces left for drawings by Nina Pops: As I work on my half of our book “We: A Friendship,” I leaf through my own notebooks … Continue reading →

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Peter Handke: Drawings from Notebooks

Posted on June 22, 2017 by Scott Abbott

After posting some pages from Alex’s three new books I found this current exhibition of drawings from Peter Handke’s notebooks at the Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese in Berlin. Both authors draw and write and write and draw. Neither is a … Continue reading →

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It rains even on who’s wet: POMS 2005 by Alex Caldiero

Posted on June 19, 2017 by Scott Abbott

Alex’s new work — newly presented, that is, since these are taken from his notebooks written and drawn in 2005. Words are no longer “enough like things,” a poem in the first volume complains, and one way to read these … Continue reading →

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Resurrection / Auferstehung / Anastasis

Posted on June 9, 2017 by Scott Abbott

Spent the last couple of days working on the metaphor of standing in Dostoevsky’s novel The Idiot. A copy of Hans of Holbein’s painting of the dead Christ hanging in Rogozhin’s apartment  is key to my thinking, raising questions of … Continue reading →

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