Anne Tardos
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The insubstantial and changing quality of space is appreciated.
Intellectual understanding is based on harmless and spontaneous perception.
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Take a good look, she says about her inventory.
Palatially housed, her inflammatory and multifaceted
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A life terminated is still a life, while a life about to be terminated
may be less so.
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It's the ego that lets go of the ego.
A leftist is usually right.
Everyone is really a very fine fellow.
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Lacan says to "Eat your existence, mange ton dasein."
There's no field of sense that can be quilted.
(I don't really know what that's supposed to mean.)
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It’s so quiet today—don’t know what to say.
The uncertainty of the uncertainty and then the uncertainty.
Is the road we take imagined or already given?
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My love is strong but more work is needed.
It's hard to "translate" a Shakespeare sonnet like that.
You can publish my language, but who reads it.
When I sing, I follow my Philomel, the nightingale.
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Don't blame me, I was hacked, not my fault.
Nobody is wrong, everybody is right, nobody is right.
I reach across something white from a nearby universe.
And see a familiar looking mirror image of myself.
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Everything, but everything, tends to be working against me.
It's the way in which the world functions, basically.
Existence is assured to those who overcome every obstacle.
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In writing: find the right tone, and you're off.
Leave the phony stuff behind, you don't need it.
That doesn't mean that devices are to be avoided.
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Determining what constitutes this "phony stuff"—is the thing.
Try sensing when it's okay to open your mouth.
Sometimes it's preferable to not sing, to not speak.
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Finally we learn that we are dealing with images.
It doesn’t matter what the fantasy is or isn’t.
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You buy me eggs and watch me eat them.
Sometimes everything seems like a movie or stage set.
Suppose we really were animals before we became human.
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The masculine point of view I can only imagine.
And now I shall go take a little nap.
Take a nap in the middle of a Nine?
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On those genre-free nights, she just writes and writes.
Tourism, lovers' strolls, arm in arm under the sun.
Mine is the ever perpetuating fricassee of life's continuity.
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Anne Tardos Biography
Anne Tardos is a poet, visual artist, and composer born in Cannes, France. She lived as a small child in German-occupied Paris, then after the war moved with her parents to Budapest, where she learned Hungarian. The Hungarian revolution resulted in her having then to move to Vienna, where she learned German and attended a French high school. After completing high school, she spent two years in Paris. In 1966 she moved to the United States. Tardos received her education in film and the visual arts, attending the Vienna Film Academy from 1963–65, then the Art Students League of New York, from 1966–70, for which she received grants from the Ford Foundation for the years 1967–70. Her books of multilingual poems and graphics include The Dik-dik's Solitude: New and Selected Works (Granary Books, 2002), A Noisy Nightingale Understands a Tiger's Camouflage Totally (Belladonna Books, 2003), Uxudo (1999), Mayg-shem Fish (1995), and Cat Licked the Garlic (1992). She is among the guest faculty at Naropa University (2008, 1994) and has lectured at Bard College (2008), UC Berkeley (2003), SUNY-Buffalo (2003), The New School (2001), University of Hawaii-Manoa (1999), The School of Poetry of Vienna (1996, 1994, 1993), University of Szeged, Hungary (1993), UC San Diego (1990), School of Visual Arts, New York (1987), SUNY-Albany (1986), and the Brooklyn Museum Art School (1982). Tardos is the author of the multilingual performance work Among Men, which was produced by West German Radio Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), in Cologne. Among Men consists of 17 music scores and two reader’s scores, with text based on encyclopedia entries for female artists and the first names of the men whose entries fall between theirs. The scores utilize collaged sound and visual elements from female musicians and artists, with variation allowed for in performance according to the visibility of a note on the score. Among Men was also performed live at Roulette, New York (1996); the Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna (1994); and the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, Boulder, CO (1994). She met Jackson Mac Low in 1975; the two lived and worked together from 1978 until his death in 2004. Thing of Beauty, New and Selected Works by Jackson Mac Low, edited by Tardos, released January 2008 by the University of California Press, provides a general outline of Mac Low’s poetic oeuvre and includes many previously unpublished texts. Tardos’s editorial work has been highly lauded, with Publishers Weekly stating that "Thing of Beauty does the best job to date in providing a window into Mac Low’s unique perspective on what constitutes poetic beauty." For collecting many of Mac Low’s artworks, Tardos received a grant from the Judith Rothschild Foundation. Tardos' latest book, I Am You (Salt Publishing, 2008), is a collection of five long poems that explore the limits of language, time, subjectivity and grief. A deeply personal elegy for Mac Low, I Am You is also a poetic inquiry into the boundaries of the human subject.)
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The insubstantial and changing quality of space is appreciated.
Intellectual understanding is based on harmless and spontaneous perception.
Supposition gold-digger advocating pleasure—be the laughing stock!
Amber cushion softly evident seagull commentary, we shall prevail.
Tirelessly pedaling along the ever present source of ideas.
Long, drawn-out suffering is not what we're after.
Palpably diligent search for the hidden order in art.
Studying aspects of artistic imagination, the kinds of attention.
Conscious and unconscious scanning of perceptual stress and oscillation.
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