Monday Memo

This week we're talking about...

• Joanna Klink's poem "The Infinities" from APS No. 26, a thoughtful read for a warm July day when summer is halfway gone: "Because we live we are granted / names, streams, shocks of / heat, murmuring summers. All the days you have / ever breathed are swallows / shooting between trees."
• Of the Self and of the Other, an exhibition of historical and recent paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by Etel Adnan (APS No. 23 & 24), Ione Saldanha, and Carolee Schneemann at Galerie LeLong​, now through August 3, which considers "how these three artists focused on the relationship between body and landscape."
• Jamel Brinkley's debut collection A Lucky Man (A Public Space/Graywolf), and his recent conversation with Brandon Taylor for LitHub: "It’s a cliché in fiction to have a dog barking in the distance," Brinkley says, "but what happens when that dog actually shows up? What happens when harmless potentialities peel themselves from the inert background, become fully animate and dimensional, and intrude on our mental and physical space?"
• The riveting World Cup final match between France and Croatia, and the Croatian Renaissance humanist Marko Marulić. The British Museum Library holds Henry VIII's copy of Evangelistary, with the king's marginal notes.
• An event this Tuesday: Glitch, An Evening of Poetry and Catalogue Launch for One Hand Clapping presented by the Guggenheim. The roster of poets includes Tan Lin, Feliz Lucia Molina, Sawako Nakayasu, Lynn Xu, and catalogue contributor Nicholas Wong. Each poet will present new works addressing the theme of One Hand Clapping: how globalization affects our understanding of the future​.