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Translator/poet Stuart Krimko and artist Amalia Ulman read, in English and the original Spanish, "Athletic Sex," a poem by Argentinian writer Cecilia Pavón, as collected in Belleza y Felicidad (trans. Stuart Krimko).
Recorded on 06/24/17, this reading was part of an extended program booked by Ready-to-read at Eckhaus Latta's rEtail Store in Los Angeles, CA.
Image: Amalia Ulman, The Destruction Of Experience, 2014.
background text from Will Alexander’s 1998 poem Above the Human Nerve Domain
Forthcoming Hard to Reader Amanda Yates Garcia interviews past guest Stuart Krimko on her KCHUNG radio show The Oracle Hour.
Tuesday 03.21.17 at 7pm
Will Alexander was born in Los Angeles in 1948. His poetry reads consonant with multi-syllables that feel like tools like we’re creating new biological entities with them.
Stuart Krimko’s poetry tends towards the theological. He also practices grounded astrology and translates. He translated, for e.g., one of my favorite books, Belleza y Felicidad: Selected Writings by Fernanda Laguna and Cecilia Pavón (Argentinian prose poet artists).
Yasi Salek’s known for wearing this sardonic tone that’s really revealing of her extrasensitive care. In writing, she can address a ‘you’ that’s not you, we feel rather like her, recognizing her ‘you’ is her and us too (mirror mirrors). She’s also a stand-up comedian.
Peter Nowogrodzki will likely read on gluttony.
Hard to Read at the Standard DTLA 550 S. Flower St Los Angeles, CA
by Cecilia Pavón, collected in Belleza y Felicidad, trans. Stuart Krimko
Stuart Krimko reads his "Sometimes You Have Life" at Hard to Read, 03.21.17.
Before I bummed a cigarette. Before I read my Braille newspaper. Before I went out into the world and bought as many knickknacks as I could afford. Before I offered a prayer to a Lord. I would love my daughter more than my water, she would always come first, she would be the answer to my thirst.
Stuart Krimko, The Sweetness of Herbert (excerpt)
