Tumble Home by Amy Hempel

Author:Amy Hempel
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 1997-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

Notes

Page 28: “The need for the new love …” is from “Wait,” by Galway Kinnell, in Mortal Acts, Mortal Words, Houghton Mifflin, 1980.

Page 72: “Not every clocktick needs a martyr” is from the poem “Turning to Look Back,” by John Woods, from Keeping Out of Trouble, Indiana University Press, 1968.

Page 81 and 121-22: The gorilla who uses sign language is Koko. Incidents cited are either from the author’s visit with Koko, or from documented exchanges and observations by Koko’s teacher, Dr. Francine Patterson.

Page 105: The artists referred to are Alex Melamid and Vitaly Komar, whose conceptual art piece/poll was titled “The People’s Art.”

Page 112: “He opens a book at random and consults randomness,” is from the poem “Sortilege,” by Eric Pankey, from Apocrypha, Knopf, 1993.

Page 145: “Drawing is a racing yacht …” is from Robert Motherwell in “Thoughts on Drawing,” reprinted in The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell, edited by Stephanie Terenzio, Oxford University Press, 1992.

Page 146: “… to reassert himself in the face of …” is from Robert Motherwell in conversation with the author and in “The Place of the Spiritual in a World of Property” (later titled “The Modern Painter’s World”), and in The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell, ibid.

Catherine Tatge’s film, Robert Motherwell and the New York School: Storming the Citadel, for the PBS series American Masters, was also a valuable reference.

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