Judith Fitzgerald
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Poet : Literary Journalist : Cultural Critic : Poetry Bloggadociotica |
| Location | The Forest of Estrangement / La forêt de l'aliénation, The Almaguin Highlands, Ontario, Canada |
| Introduction | Literary journalism by avocation; poetry by vocation. Participate in the former enterprise to make a living, the latter to make a life. Unlike someone we all know, I never paid the syntax and quit this gig I did fulltime commencing 9 February 2009 on 17 November 2011: Contributing Reviewer / Poetry Blogger for The Globe and Mail's "Books" and "In Other Words." IOW? Cue Thomas Pynchon's Hallelujah Chorus: Who arm moi? I'm your classic case of terminal insanity, impossibility, and imponderabilia. My brain's a bad neighbourhood you do not wish to visit: Woman + Poet = Raving Balloonatic (or, if you're fond of povert poets, you may call same benign eccentrics. Everybody else does). S'Okay. My mother <*angel*> already warned me about me :). A sui generis mythmaker, heteronymically adopted by Pessoa's colección de animales mágicos, je n'existe pas. Jes' another somenone all too willing to entertain you avec les nouvelles que les séjours nouvelles till the cows keel over. Moooooooodith :). |
| Interests | Marshall McLuhan: The Medium and the Messenger, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova, Collected Walt Whitman, Selected Philip Larkin, Collected W. H. Auden, The Odyssey, The Iliad, Crash, Alibi, Book of Longing, A Painted Field, Selected Gerard Manley Hopkins, Tales of Mystery and Imagination, The Shape of Meaning in the Poetry of David Jones, Five New Facts About Giorgioni, The Science of Nothing, The Velveteen Rabbit, Diamond Grill, The Confessions, Collected Chesterton, O Pioneers!, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, Collected E. E. Cummings, Diving Into the Wreck, Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism, Monks' Fruit, Last Evenings on Earth, Plainsong, The Natural, Les fleurs du mal, A Game of Chase, Confessions of a Poet, The Golden Bough, Poet in New York, The Dying Gaul, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Mason & Dixon, Thirty Days, The Complete Poems of Cavafy, Roget's Thesaurus, Let Them Eat Crumbs, How to Install a Window, Hildegard: Prophet of the Cosmic Christ, Slaughterhouse Five, The Philip K. Dick Reader, Everything and More, The Bible, The Completed Field Notes of Robert Kroetsch . . . |
| Favorite Movies | The Night Porter, The Asphalt Jungle, Bad Timing, Jules et Jim, Casablanca, They Shoot Horses Don't They?, Ninotchka, Farewell My Lovely, Fantasia, Midnight Cowboy, Love at First Sight, The Deer Hunter, Jesus of Montréal, The Silent Partner, Blade Runner, IF . . ., Being There, New York New York, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Lawrence of Arabia, Key Largo, The Graduate, The King of Marvin Gardens, I Am a Hotel, Drunken Angel, Ossessioni, Raging Bull, Blue Velvet, Kiss Me Deadly, Murder My Sweet, Ran, L'Amour l'après-midi, Lacombe Lucien, The Art of War, Chinatown, Dr. Zhivago, The King of New York, The Conversation, Straw Dogs, The French Connection, Nashville, The Collector, Ulysses, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Blood Simple, Don't Look Now, The Grifters, Scarface, Double Indemnity, Dr. Strangelove, Annie Hall, Singin' in the Rain, Bonnie and Clyde, Goodfellas, Gone With the Wind, The Manchurian Candidate, Cape Fear, Zapruder's 26th Way Out of This World, It's a Wonderful Life, Cabaret, All That Jazz, Secretary, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Day for Night, Miller's Crossing, Metropolis, Closely Watched Trains, Camille, La vie en rose, Charade, Children of Paradise, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch, Unforgiven, The Wizard of Oz, Ikiru, Kamouraska |
| Favorite Music | Johann Sebastian Bach, Doc Stompin' Tom Connors, Jacques Brel, Dwight Yoakam, Serena Ryder, Radiohead, INXS, Nick Cave, Theory of a Deadman, Ana Egge, Dmitri Shostakovich, Leonard Cohen, Kathleen Battle, Ludwig van Beethoven, Anne Murray, Stone Temple Pilots, Trent Reznor, Buck Owens, Guy Clark, Colleen Peterson, Treble charger, Franz Haydn, Edith Piaf, Merle Haggard, Blackie & The Rodeo Kings, Billie Holiday, Caitlin Hanford, Hank Williams Sr., Sarah Slean, Willy P. Bennett, Wilhelm Hieronymus Pachebel, Ray Charles, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Kurt Cobain, 54-40, The McGarrigle Sisters, Glenn Gould, The Tragically Hip, George Jones, Jane Siberry, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palastrina, Blue Rodeo, Stan Rogers, Neil Young, Jann Arden, Sergei Vasselievitch Rachmaninoff, Camille Saint-Saens, Lennie Gallant, k.d. lang, Our Lady Peace, James McMurtry, Emmylou Harris, Lennie Breau, Mary Margaret O'Hara, Daniel McGeever, Arcade Fire, Ray Price, Roger Miller, Patsy Cline, David Baxter, Steve Goodman, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Daisy DeBolt, Franziskus de Cineros Ximenes, Don Marco Uccellin, Hawksley Workman, Claude Achille Debussy, Ian Tyson, Tom Waits, George Frederick Handel, Lou Reed |
| Favorite Books | . . . Captain Vancouver, Four Quartets, Winter Sun, The Anathemata, The Sleeping Lord, The Selected Gwendolyn MacEwen, The Divine Ryans, Beautiful Losers, The Collected Odysseus Elytis, Heart of Darkness, Understanding Media, The Mechanical Bride, The Simple Art of Murder, All of Us, Fuck Me Blind, Directions for an Opened Body, The Great Gatsby, Afterworlds, The Pursuit of Loneliness, The Stone Angel, Civilisation and Its Discontents, An Introduction to Language, Bondage & Discipline for Beginners, The Oresteia, Spirit Engine, Minimalism: Origins, The Martyrology, Postmodernism Or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, The Divine Comedy, The Society of the Spectacle, Coming Through Slaughter, A Course in Miracles, Mortal Ghost, Hamlet, The Condition of Postmodernity, The Poetics, Big MAC: Mexico / America / Canada™, Everything in Winnipeg Begins in a Car, Rimbaud Complete, Salvage King Ya!, A Streetcar Named Desire, Requiem for a Dream, The Sportswriter, Possession, The Oxford Dictionary of Etymology, Nights Below Station Street, Carpe Carpus!, Synchronicity, The Third Policeman, The Sorrows of Young Werther, The OED, The Metamorphoses, The Consolation of Philosophy, The White Goddess, Physics for Poets, Wittgenstein's Mistress, Finnegans Wake, Taken, Ariel, Duino Elegies, Game Time, Book of Mercy, Collected Emily Dickinson, Howl, One / Eye / Love, Wanted Alive, No Language Is Neutral, The Art of War, The Night the Dog Smiled, Growing Pains, Love's Body, The Periodic Table, Newer Lies, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Invisible Cities, The Quiet American, Ambuguity™ |
ADAGIOS QUARTET EPIGRAPH: Tunc Ulixes eum consiliis ad rem pulchram transtulit; idem Ulixes cum Diomede ad Iphigeniam missus est adducendam, qui cum ad Clytaemnestram matrem eius venisset, ementitur Ulixes eam Achilli in coniugium dari. (Gaius Julius Hyginus, FABULAE 69)