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<\/a>Bay Ridge: lovely 1890s summer day on Third Avenue and 75th Street<\/p><\/div>\n
It is just five months now that I call Brooklyn home, though given the nomadicity of teaching at Albany & traveling nearly weekly elsewhere for readings or conferences, I’ve barely had the time to savor living in Yellow Hook, aka Bay Ridge \u2014 except of course for the long walks along the Narrows from the 69th street pier to the Verrazano Bridge (2.4 miles, one-way) with Nicole when we have the time, and\u00a0 shopping along third and fifth avenues twixt Bay Ridge Avenue and the 96th Street farmer’s market (now in hibernation).<\/p>\n
A few days ago a book edited by our friend Pauline Peretz arrived from France: a big 1300-page “bouquin” published by Robert Laffont and called NEW YORK Histoire, Promenade, Anthologie & Dictionnaire<\/em>. I had been asked to contribute, but given my crazy necklace, no: noose of deadlines, I didn’t get my piece \u2014 on the East Village in the late sixties\/early seventies \u2014 done in time (it is still in the works & will, hopefully, come out someday). I had suggested to Pauline that she contact Robert Kelly for a piece on Brooklyn \u2014 which she did, and Robert responded with a long meditation on cities and specifically his birth-place, Brooklyn. For the last few days I’ve been committing\u00a0 a very pleasurable minor act of d\u00e9payisement (or repayisement?) as I’d call the Verfremdungseffekt of reading Kelly on Brooklyn in French.\u00a0 And then thought: why not reprint the original English version on Nomadics<\/em> over these holidays in several installments (visions of Eug\u00e8ne Sue or Balzac on Paris serialized in French newspapers 150 years ago…) RK agreed, and I am now getting his text ready for this blog. First installment tomorrow, for Christmas Eve…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It is just five months now that I call Brooklyn home, though given the nomadicity of teaching at Albany & traveling nearly weekly elsewhere for readings or conferences, I’ve barely had the time to...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[182,1709,645],"class_list":["post-2541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bay-ridge","tag-brooklyn","tag-robert-kelly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}