Waldman, Anne & Vincent Katz: Fantastic Caryatids: A Conversation with Art

Fantastic Caryatids: A Conversation with Art by Anne Waldman and Vincent Katz (BlazeVOX Books, paperback) Publication Date: January 15, 2017 "FANTASTIC CARYATIDS, by Anne Waldman & Vincent Katz, is a lush, vivid and spectacular reading/album/book of poetry, conversation and photographs. Note that the subtitle is A Conversation with Art. The with has the particularities of city, specificities of the senses, of memories, of an ethos whose upper limit is friendship, companionship. It is a model, a remarkable 'alternative version of how to be alive.' (Anne Waldman) Dynamic, urbane, intimate, 'the occasion of these ruses' (Frank O'Hara) is synergy from chronos to kairos. From Ted Berrigan and Barbara Guest to Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, from Chelsea to St. Mark's, from Kiki Smith to Patti Smith, we see the duo's radiant and earnest exchanges about how communities develop around being together in space and time, making and sharing a world, a life. The proliferations of concretio