[New York, NY]

Bernadette Mayer, George Quasha, Charles Stein, Sam Truitt, Peter Lamborn Wilson
October 25, 2011, 6:00 pm
at ACA Galleries

Boog City presents d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press Station Hill of Barrytown (Barrytown, N.Y.) Event will be hosted by George Quasha, co-founder Station Hill of Barrytown Featuring readings from: Bernadette Mayer George Quasha Charles Stein Sam Truitt Peter Lamborn Wilson and music from: George Quasha and David Arner There will be wine, cheese, and crackers, too. Curated and with an introduction by Boog City editor David Kirschenbaum Directions: C/E to 23rd St., 1/9 to 18th St. Venue is bet. 10th and 11th avenues Bernadette Mayer, 0 to 9 (Ugly Duckling Presse 2006) was born in Brooklyn and is the author of more than two dozen books of poetry, including most recently Studying Hunger Journals (Station Hill Press), as well as Ethics of Sleep and Poetry State Forest. She has taught writing workshops at The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church for many years and served as its director. She lives in East Nassau, N.Y. Sam Truitt is the author of Vertical Elegies 6: Street Mete (Station Hill Press); Vertical Elegies: Three Works (Ugly Duckling Presse 2008); Vertical Elegies 5: The Section (The University of Georgia Press); and Anamorphosis Eisenhower (Lost Roads Publishers), among other books. He teaches in the Language and Thinking Workshop at Bard College and is managing director of Station Hill Press. Station Hill of Barrytown, established in 1977 by George Quasha and Susan Quasha, is an independent publisher whose mission is to challenge and expand conceptions of human possibility. Innovative works in human alternatives have been published in the arts, particularly in poetry and literature (including fiction, non-fiction, and criticism), and contemporary art and music; philosophies and practices of conscious living (including studies in Buddhism/Dzogchen/Zen and Jewish esotericism); alternative health and healing (including acupuncture, bodywork, oriental medicine, mind-body therapies, and cooking); and social and ecological studies. David Arner (piano, harpsichord, percussion), a long time proponent of innovative music and spontaneous composition, teaches at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Performing throughout the US both solo and collaboratively (with musicians Michael Bisio, Tomas Ulrich, Jay Rosen, as well as poet/sound-artists Charles Stein and George Quasha), he has also pioneered a re-vitalization of new music for silent film (recently at The Museum of Modern Art). George Quasha, poet/artist/sound artist, explores a common principle in language, sculpture, drawing, video, sound, and performance. His books include Ainu Dreams, Axial Stones: An Art of Precarious Balance, Verbal Paradise (preverbs), and, with Charles Stein, An Art of Limina: Gary Hill’s Works and Writings. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship (video art) and NEA Fellowship (poetry). Charles Stein is author of 13 books including most recently From Mimir’s Head (Station Hill Press); a translation of The Odyssey; a vision of the Eleusinian Mysteries, Persephone Unveiled; a study of poet Charles Olson, The Secret of the Black Chrysanthemum; and, with George Quasha, a study of Gary Hill, An Art of Limina. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut and lives in Barrytown, N.Y. Peter Lamborn Wilson is author most recently of Ec(o)logues, a Menippean Satyre (mixed poetry and prose, both serious and humorous), published by Station Hill Press, as well as co-author of Green Hermeticism=alchemy and ecology (Lindisfarne Books); and author of Escape from the Nineteenth Century & Other Essays: Fourier, Marx, Proudhon and Nietzsche (Autonomedia) plus numerous other books and essays. He is a long-time member of the Autonomedia Collective and lives in the Hudson Valley. Boog City is a New York City-based small press now in its 21st year and East Village community newspaper of the same name. It has also published 35 volumes of poetry and various magazines, featuring work by Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti among others, and theme issues on baseball, women’s writing, and Louisville, Ky. It hosts and curates two regular performance series—d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press, where each month a non-NYC small press and its writers and a musical act of their choosing is hosted at Chelsea’s ACA Galleries; and Classic Albums Live, where up to 13 local musical acts perform a classic album live at venues including The Bowery Poetry Club, Cake Shop, CBGB’s, The Knitting Factory, and The Sidewalk Café. Past albums have included Elvis Costello, My Aim is True; Nirvana, Nevermind; and Liz Phair, Exile in Guyville.