Annotated #PhoneCallFromPaul: with Garth Greenwell
Another Annotated #PhoneCallWithPaul @Holdengraber, with @GarthGreenwell
A bibliography, httpography, quotography of a great conversation
https://lithub.com/garth-greenwell-on-defeating-the-conception-of-categorization/ …
Paul talks with Garth about his new book Cleanness https://amzn.to/2OhT6WQ pic.twitter.com/xlB3AgxLrw
... and about two exceptional review of Cleanness. The first is Christian Kiefer’s review @lithub
https://lithub.com/how-does-garth-greenwell-make-such-wonderful-sentences/ …
... and the second is Colm Toibin’s review @NYTimes
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/17/books/review/garth-greenwell-cleanness.html …
#Quotomania from Paul @Holdengraber while discussing with @GarthGreenwell what exactly Cleanness is:
"To define is to distrust" - Laurence Sterne
"Nothing will fit if we assume a place for it." - Robert Creely
And Paul & Garth discuss a recent tweet by
@ilya_poet, which included this quote from Miłosz:
"The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person."
NB: with a bonus Pessoa quotehttps://twitter.com/ilya_poet/status/1220690717523304448?s=20 …
Talking about the 9-sections of Cleanness, Garth brings up his music background, & likens it's form to Schubert's Winterreise. Here's the first #PhoneCallFromPaul soundtrack item:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnuvs2w7ges …
Paul adds another quote, by Vincent Van Gogh, as quoted by Mary Oliver “But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.”https://twitter.com/holdengraber/status/1111381435040948224?s=20 …
... and Garth brings up Paul's @ParisReview interview with Adam Phillips:
https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6286/adam-phillips-the-art-of-nonfiction-no-7-adam-phillips …
In a discussion of happiness, Paul brings up two works: Camus's Summer - https://amzn.to/2GMufGr and Stendahl's The Life of Henri Brulard - https://amzn.to/37Sax8i pic.twitter.com/VXVwwtXMre
The Stendahl is the source of one of Paul's favourite quotes:
"I had the childishness to speak about my happiness."
The source of the happiness is Domenico Cimarosa"s Il Matrimonio Segreto
The second item in our #PhoneCallFromPaul playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrFa7mTK0KE …
The conversation comes back to Colm Toibin. Garth commends to us his 2004 book Love in a Dark Time: And Other Explorations of Gay Lives and Literature https://amzn.to/3b6GjAs pic.twitter.com/4iKxRqB88f
Garth also discusses Harold Bloom's The Anxiety of Influence https://amzn.to/2GKCLG0 pic.twitter.com/dZloe9hNI2
In another fit of #quotomania, Paul add two more quotes from Adam Phillips:
"When we talk to each other, things fall out of our pockets."
"We can’t tickle ourselves."
Garth talks about originality in art, & Paul brings up a recent article about the poet Frank Bidart in @TheAtlantic:
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2020/01/by-heart-garth-greenwell-frank-bidart/604933/ …
The #PhoneCallFromPaul @Holdengraber continues with
@GarthGreenwell reading a Cavafy poem:
The Bandaged Shoulder
https://poemhunter.com/poem/the-bandaged-shoulder/ …
"... the blood of love on my lips."
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Paul replies with his own reading of another Cavafy poem, He Vows https://allpoetry.com/He-vows "... he returns, forlorn, to the same fatal joy."pic.twitter.com/8V30p7fIAk
Finally, @GarthGreenwell reads the final paragraph of the second section of Cleanness, "Gospodar"pic.twitter.com/b4YBl1gnyd