in which the editor of ZYZZYVA, a journal of west coast writers & artists, describes the struggle day by day
It's all very well for a developer to have the name of a Cavalier poet inscribed on an I-beam.
But a "Poetry/Sculpture Garden" (2000), words by Robert Hass, sculptural concept by Paul Kos, seems totally bogus, and a waste of money. It's in back of the popular restaurant Town Hall, 342 Howard (official address: 199 Fremont). Nature is already taking its toll.
posted by Howard Junker at 7:49 AM
ZYZZYVA was founded in San Francisco in 1985. It is published on paper three times a year; the current issue, Fall, is the 83rd. The editor, Howard Junker, was born in Port Washington, NY, a town on Long Island that Fitzgerald called East Egg in The Great Gatsby. Junker lives in San Francisco with his wife and their daughter, a senior in college in Washington, D.C. In the photo, he's standing with the managing editor, Kristin Kearns, in front of the Columbarium, which survived the Earthquake. Click here for the Corporate Autobiography
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I wonder what the full text of that piece is... just for the sake of knowing.
Since the early 1980s or thereabouts there are, in San Francisco, quite a number of such works of art which would be less recognized as such. As an example, certain monumental top-knots passing as architectural setbacks downtown.
Vita longa, Ars brevis?
Michael S. Bell
Joplin
No poet can resist the chance to see his/her words carved in stone.
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