Nathan Kernan
An Open Door: Scenes From James Schuyler's First Summer In Italy
From Tether 1, page 119:
“On October 20, 1947, James Schuyler sailed for Europe with his lover Bill Aalto. Schuyler was then twenty-three (almost twenty-four), not yet a poet. He had been living in New York with Aalto for the past four years and working at a clerical job at NBC Broadcasting, while trying to write fiction in his spare time. He had recently inherited a farm in Arkansas from his paternal grandmother, which he sold for $6,000 and was planning to use that money to live in Italy for as long as he could—two years as it turned out. His best friend for the past several years was Chester Kallman, W. H. Auden’s lover. Kallman was a passionate and knowledgeable lover of music, especially opera, and Chester and James were known among their friends by the camp names of Fiordiligi and Dorabella, after the two sisters in Mozart’s opera Così fan tutte. Auden and Kallman accompanied the travelers to the dock in Hoboken to see them off, and the four made plans to reunite in Italy the following spring.”
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Tether 1 contains essays by Bill Berkson on the influence of Piero Della Francesca; W. C. Bamberger presents never before published translations of the surrealist art critic Emil Szittya; Holly Day discusses George Sugarman’s polychrome sculptures from the 1960’s; John Willenbecher unearths something out of the ordinary about Chardin’s drawers; Judith Stein writes about the little known textile works of Katherine Porter; Douglas Crase reflects on sitting for a portrait; Trevor Winkfield unpacks the mysteries of Cezanne’s masterpiece, Mardi Gras; Nathan Kernan leaks a preview of his forthcoming biography on James Schuyler; Bill Zavatsky translates Robert Desnos’s 1926 book “It’s The Seven League Boots This Phrase ‘I See Myself’”; a selection of pages from Gerald Murphy’s notebooks; Chris Byrne introduces us to the visionary work of Susan Te Kahurangi King; Paul Hammond recalls his childhood awakening to the world of cinema; Charles North debunks the threat of poetry; and an essay on walking in the English countryside by A.J.A. Symons.
Printed in the USA
Edition of 500
9 black and white images and 59 color images
Item Weight : 0.82 pounds
Paperback : 180 pages
ISBN: 978069237617151500
Product Dimensions : 6 x 0.5 x 8.25 inches
Publisher : Sienese Shredder Editions; Pap/Com Edition (2015)
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