January 30 , 2010
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Saturday, January 30, 2010, 7:30 PM

RON SILLIMAN and MARILYN CRISPELL in an evening of poetry and improvised music, with Silliman offering a reading of his work, and Crispell featured in a solo jazz piano concert. Presented by Chax Press, co-sponsorship by The University of Arizona Poetry Center and POG.

Recital Hall, Pima Center for the Arts, Pima Community College West Campus, 2202 West Anklam, Tucson (PDF map).

You can purchase tickets via telephone in advance ($10) by calling the Pima Center for the Arts at (520) 206-6986 or on the evening of the reading/performance ($15) at the Pima Center for the Arts box office .

The box office is open for window & phone sales Tuesday-Friday 12-5pm and one hour before the show.

Seating is limited to 120 people! Any questions call Charles Alexander (520) 275-4330. Tickets already sold will be honored!

 

Ron Silliman is one of America's most consistently challenging and rewarding poets, with more than 30 books to his credit, most recently The Alphabet. The Times Literary Supplement opines, "Ron Silliman's ongoing long poem The Alphabet... mingles quotidian observation, linguistic-philosophical reflection, and street-level social critique to produce as vivid, systemic, and cumulatively moving an account of contemporary life as any poet now writing."

Silliman's Blog: A weblog focused on contemporary poetry and poetics, has had over 2.5 million hits since its inception in 2003.

Ron Silliman reading from The Alphabet:

Marilyn Crispell has more than two dozen albums of music and has long been one of our great innovative performer/composers on the piano; John Pareles, in the NY Times, writes, "Hearing Marilyn Crispell play solo piano is like monitoring an active volcano. She is one of a very few pianists who rise to the challenge of free jazz." Crispell is a rarity in that she's not interested in hard bop, jazz/hip-hop, or fusion. Her style, with its slashing phrases, percussive mode, clusters, and speed, pays homage to Cecil Taylor (whom she reveres) but isn't merely an imitation...and her use of space, African rhythms, and chording also recall Thelonious Monk and Paul Bley, two others she cites as influences, along with Leo Smith.
(Photo by Claire Stefani, Claire.Stefani@Daddario.com)

Please visit Marilyn Crispell.com.

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