Reading and Singing St-John Perse
Images a Crusoe, Op 11 , by Louis Durey Scenes d'Anabase , by Paul Bowles Beth Anne Hatton, voice Ishmael Wallace, piano Vita Wallace, violin Text read by Jee Leong Koh Excerpts from Exile , text read by R. Nemo Hill Date: October 16, 2006 (Mon) Time: 8 p.m. Place: The Stone, 2nd St & Ave C (www.thestonenyc.com) Tix: $10 St-John Perse , or Alexis Leger, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1960. Born in Guadeloupe, the young Alexis felt like an exile when the family moved to France. His sequence, Pictures for Crusoe , gives voice to an old Crusoe who lives, barely, in the city and dreams of returning to his sensual island paradise. From the section titled "The Wall": ...It is the sweat of saps in exile, the bitter oozings of plants with long pods, the acrid insinuation of fleshy mangroves, and the acid delight of a black substance within the pods. It is the wild honey of ants in the galleries of the dead tree. The style is a little too rhapsodic and overblown for my ...