Jordan from the New Kids on the Block (cyan)
What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow
Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man,
You cannot say, or guess, for you know only
A heap of broken images, where the sun beats,
And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,
And the dry stone no sound of water.
The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot
Ultra for Extra
Ultra for Extra, a PDF chapbook of nine poems for Private Circulation
Memories of New York, Private Circulation’s first New York exhibition
March 12, 2008Comments Off
Download the Memories of New York press release.
Pages 13–21
Of a Name: A Brief History of No Man’s Land
Since the British explorer Bartholomew Gosnold landed on its shores in 1602, the little island two and three-quarters miles off the southern coast of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts has had a succession of names, among them: Cappoaquit, Marthaes Vineyard, Hendrick Christiaensen’s Eylant, Dock Island, and the Isle of Man. Four hundred years of chance and linguistic drift have chiseled out a name that accurately describes the condition of No Man’s Land today as a restricted Fish and Wildlife Refuge and former bombing range. This month’s Private Circulation brings together a collection of historical documents into a brief history of the island. Also included is the long awaited announcement of Private Circulation’s first New York exhibition, Memories of New York.
—The Editors