Jim Dine Reading: (Plus one song)

Description

Since the mid-sixties when Jim Dine began writing poems "full force" (his own words), they have formed a crucial, if subtle thread between the diverse visual media in which he works: the painting and drawing, the print-making (in all its forms), the sculpture... Often written in the studio itself (even on its walls), his poems come into being through the same intense self-exploration and re-shaping that defines all his art. Dine has published numerous volumes of his poems, compositions described by Tom Raworth as "direct as brushstrokes, as casual as conversation, as passionate as loss," yet nowhere is the life of his poetry-its verve and color-as compelling as in Dine's recitals of them. Jim Dine Reading (plus one song) presents ten such vital recordings, originally recorded as part of Dine's groundbreaking Hot Dream (52 Books) (2008), for which he made a book a week for a year. Here are not only his poems (with, in Ron Padgett's words, their "wonderfully goofy playfulness and a no-holds-barred, slightly scary exhilaration"), but also an autobiography, a remembrance of Robert Creeley (Dine's most important literary inspiration), and a song by Dine written some half century ago. CD 1 Clarence CD 2 Chalk Poems, Black & White CD 3 Chalk Poems, Color CD 4 These Europeans I knew, (a) long long time ago CD 5 I knew about Creeley CD 6 Personal, Personal CD 7 Pastoral poem of Revenge CD 8 The Flowering Sheets CD 9 Some Poems CD 10 Ode to Sad

Born in 1935 in Cincinnati, Ohio, Jim Dine completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Ohio University in 1957 and has since become one of the most profound and prolific contemporary artists. Dine's unparalleled career spans 60 years, and his work is held in numerous private and public collections. His books with Steidl include Pinocchio (2006), Hot Dream (52 Books) (2008), A Printmaker's Document (2013) and Paris Reconnaissance (2018).