Bøger af Larry Goodell

DANCE BOOK by Larry Goodell - a New Mexico dance renaissance in New Mexico in the 1980's!>A compilation of my poems about dance, poems used in collaboration with dancers, primarily Lee Connor and the Danzantes - the dance company he formed - dancers I have performed with, have known and loved - pictures and memorabilia - dedicated to the memory of Lee Connor - I am grateful for the dance photographs from the collections of Lorn MacDougal and Connor and I am grateful for New Mexico Aids Services for their help with Lee. "Lee Connor was born October 21, 1947, in Derry, New Hampshire. He was a professor of Dance at UNM from 1976 until his death in 1987. At the time of his death he was the coordinator of the Dance Program of the Department of Theatre and Dance. He held a BA in English with a minor in Theatre from the State University of New York at Binghamton and earned his MA in Fine Arts from New York University School for the Arts in 1976. Connor was the founder of Danzantes, a dance company based in Albuquerque, and helped found the Contemporary Dance Alliance. As a nationally known dancer and choreographer, he often toured the Western United States, performing duet concerts with Lorn MacDougal and was honored with fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New Mexico Arts Division." - New Mexico Archives Online. "I have the gratification of feeling that I am adding . . . some movement awarenesses to American modern dance that are not otherwise much considered here, and that feels good." Lee Connor, in a letter from College Station, Durham NC.

"I live for the unexpected." Ann Quin "Between Ann & Larry is a timely and important publication. It shows convincingly that Ann Quin was not only interested in the work of William Burroughs, but also in that of other Beat and Beat-related writers. It also draws the attention to a literary and artistic community in New Mexico which at times was as lively as, for instance, Bolinas in the late 1960s and early 1970s. While what was going on in Bolinas is well-documented, not much has been written about the many poets and artists who passed through Placitas or who still live there, like Larry Goodell." Jaap van der Bent, in "Ann Quin and the Beats," Beat Scene, Autumn, 2023, London. We were honest close friends and we opened our hearts and our minds to each other with a certain joie de vivre. We danced together any bar or party we could find and we wrote to each other when Ann traveled. She loved New Mexico and I'm glad I could be with her here. Our letters continued in spite of the increasing mental anguish that finally took its toll. Here are letters and some memorabilia, Between Ann & Larry, the British novelist and friend, and me, a poet rooted in Placitas, New Mexico. Ann died at 37, a tragic loss to energetically creative fiction and a great loss to her friends and admirers. Larry Goodell Ann Quin: "The most naturally and delicately gifted novelist of her generation." The Scotsman

A quick paced word-play theater, post-Yeatsian, post-Steinian, simply the excitement of verbal dance, the play and byplay of voices bouncing out of his head, hilariously so. Plays for spontaneous as well as rehearsed performance. Plays for leader and chorus, crazy word chant playlets. Plays for the love of it. Hot Art, Alfalfa, Left and Right, Captain Armor, Body Palace, The Football Game, A Fifth Apart, Billy the Kid in Bed, Pecos Bill, Each Other, Rabbit Stew and short short plays called Diversions from the poet playwright performer publisher painter composer Larry Goodell. These plays, whether long as in "Pecos Bill" or short as in "The Football Game," move dialogue entertainingly from the characters to the audience. Some can be spontaneously performed, some minimally rehearsed and performed for the audience's pleasure. One is a full length radio drama broadcast as part of a radio performance grant. Some use the reciting chorus but in a new fashion. Some are poetry as theater, poetry fresh and performed. Gino Sky says, "Poetry's a revolution, and Larry's our peace-loving drum major." Ann Waldman says that Goodell presents in his work "A personal vocal mythology of New Mexico expressed in songs of words."

"No poet is more particular to the wild outside and inside vastnesses of New Mexico, where Cabeza de Vaca got truly lost and D.H. Lawrence equally found." Robert Creeley. "Nature is also a common theme in Goodell's poetry: the role of Nature, the need to save the planet from destruction by corporate greed, the beauty of walking in the Ojito Wilderness, the yearly gardens around his house, his tasks with the local committee to clean out irrigation canals, the stark beauty of the Sandia foothills, the timeless poetry of the 'fervent valley' where he lives, above the larger Rio Grande Valley; in the shadow of the Cosmic Mountain. We think you will find all these riches in the poetry of Larry Goodell." Gary Brower "His poems . . . are clear fables, alien stories, truth parading in spirals. His muse is full of imagination and wonder." Jules Nyquist, founder of Jules Poetry Playhouse. "Goodell is a natural, a category that academe either explicitly denies, actively discourages, or has forgotten." Gus Blaisdell in "Co[s]mic Clown," in Artspace Fall 1976. "Breath is really 3 books: 'The Light No Stars are Made Of, ' 'Oh Cabezon, ' and 'Breath' and it traverses a time at the beginning of the last decade where Goodell leads us all further into his playfulness and inventiveness." Don McIver