John Ashbery has influenced more poets than almost any other author since 1950. Dean Young, Jane Miller, David Shapiro, and many younger poets take up the pen from within his tradition of shifting tone, quirky imagery, and timeless narratives. His innovations seem to have arrived simultaneously with
Born to a Jewish family in Natick, Massachusetts, Richman began playing music and writing his own songs in the mid-1960s. Richman became infatuated with the Velvet Underground, and in 1969 he moved to New York City, living on the couch of their manager, Steve Sesnick, while working odd jobs and try
It is the sensory impression of a moment -- its sight, sound, and smell -- that most deeply embeds itself in our memories and our internal histories, and it is such impressions that Austrian filmmaker Peter Kubelka seeks to capture in his short works. Quantitatively, the entire collection of his shor