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Brandy, Rye, Scotch.

 

 

 

“My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.”
                         —William Faulkner
 

 
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La Habana en Navidad, 1950s

La Habana en Navidad, 1950s

¿CUÁNDO LLEGARÁ LA NOCHEBUENA?

December 7, 2017

¿Cuándo llegará la Nochebuena? That was my Grandmother Mercedes’s favorite song. The Trío Matamoros interpretation. I will never forget the preparations for Christmas Eve, especially in guajiro households, in the countryside, a place where December 24 earned its greatest splendor. To prepare the hayacas—what the habaneros called tamales—each one of us had our task. My cousin Nenena peeled the corn; Tanya, my other cousin, milling the grain. Aunt Fefa put small pieces of pork into the masa harina, wrapping the dough in the husks. At another station, Ely cut the lettuce, avocados and tomatoes, while Puchita prepared an immense mixed salad. In the coal and wood stove, my mother prepared huge pots of congri—rice and beans—sweet potato, cassava and yam. Uncle Nene was called on to give a tremendous janazo to the head of the poor pig he had fed like a king for thirty days in anticipation of this date. In an instant, the revelry gave way to moments of cruelty. In his last sighs that pig began to squeal, while my cousins Gallego, Nenecito and I, dead scared, held down the legs. Suddenly, the expert hands of Uncle Nene stab at the jugular. With that moment, the uproar resumed: the suckling danced on a prong and into the bonfire they threw spears of guava. In the courtyard, a cloud of smoke slowly penetrating into the mass of piglet and filling bathed in a delicious aroma and unforgettable taste. Then someone turns up the radio volume a todo dar, to let the whole neighborhood hear the music of the Matamoros Trio, the Ignacio Piñeyro Septet, of Chapotín, Abelardo Barroso, and Chepín and his Orquesta Oriental. Into the night we sat on stools of leather around a long table. We were always more than thirty people. And so commenced the best part of Nochebuena, between dances and songs, casabe, Spanish nougats, cider, soft drinks, Pru Oriental, brandy, casseroles of food brought from the kitchen, and that giant roast suckling pig, which, I swore, did not stop watching me.

— Iván Acosta

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¿Cuándo llegará la Nochebuena? Esa era la canción preferida de mi abuela Mercedes. La interpretaba El Trío Matamoros. Nunca olvidaré los preparativos de Nochebuena, especialmente en los hogares guajiros, en la campiña, lugar donde el 24 de diciembre cobraba su mayor esplendor. Para preparar las hayacas—lo que los habaneros llaman tamales—cada cual tenía su tarea. Mi prima Nenena pelaba el maíz; Tanya, mi otra prima, molía el grano. Tía Fefa le ponía trocitos de puerco a la harina según iba envolviendo la masa en las mismas hojas de maíz. Por otro lado, Ely cortaba lechuga, el aguacate y los tomates, mientras Puchita preparaba una inmensa ensalada mixta. En el fogón de carbón y madera, mi mamá preparaba enormes cazuelas de congrí, boniato, yuca y ñame. A mi tío Nené le tocaba darle un tremendo janazo por la cabeza al pobre cerdo que él había alimentado a cuerpo de rey durante los últimos 30 días en anticipación de esta fecha. Por unos instantes, el jolgorio daba paso a momentos de crueldad. El cochino aquel en sus últimos suspiros empezaba a chillar, mientras mis primos Gallego, Nenecito y yo, muertos de miedo, le sujetábamos las patas. De pronto, de la mano experta del tío Nené, la puñalada en la yugular. A partir de ese momento, resumía la algarabía: el lechón bailaba en la púa y a la hoguera se arrojaban gajos de guayaba. En el patio se levantaba una humarada que lentamente penetraba en la masa del lechón y del relleno, que se impregnaban de un delicioso aroma y de un sabor inolvidable. Entonces alguien subía el volumen del radio a todo dar para que el vecindario entero escuchara la música de los Matamoros, del Septeto de Ignacio Piñeyro, de Chapotín, Abelardo Barroso, y Chepín y su Orquesta Oriental. Entrada la noche nos sentábamos en taburetes de cuero alrededor de una larguísima mesa. Siempre éramos más que 30 personas. Y comenzaba la mejor parte de la Nochebuena, entre bailes y cantos, casabe, turrones españoles, sidra, refrescos, Pru oriental, aguardiente, las cazuelas de comida que se traían de la cocina, y aquel gigantesco lechón asado que, yo hubiera jurado, no dejaba de mirarme.

— Iván Acosta

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Iván Acosta

Not a novel of politics, not a history of Cuban music, not an autobiography, but an anecdotal and musical journey of a soul, “a Cuban, an exile, a Cuban-American” liberated by and with the music. A double album compilation on Un-Gyve Records and an exhibition of the album artwork coincides with the publication of With a Cuban song in the heart which includes both the English and Spanish versions of the text. Introduced by Marc Myers.

 

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INTERVIEW WITH CHRISTOPHER RICKS ABOUT THE LYRICS Dylan Review Vol. 1.2. Winter 2019, Interviews Christopher Ricks spoke to DR about The Lyrics., co-edited in 2014 with Lisa Nemrow and Julie Nemrow of Un-Gyve Press. "There are great American traditions of pretending that the printed page is a performing art, so Whitman goes on and on revising, and Henry James goes on and on."

INTERVIEW WITH CHRISTOPHER RICKS ABOUT THE LYRICS Dylan Review Vol. 1.2. Winter 2019, Interviews

REREADING RANSOM             Wyatt Prunty     Kenyon Review July/August 2017   "Ransom’s poems are the subject at hand. They have been reprinted in an elegantly produced Collected Poems. Any reader who opens this book will want to own it."

REREADING RANSOM Wyatt Prunty July/Aug 2017 issue of the Kenyon Review

REREADING RANSOM Wyatt Prunty July/Aug 2017 issue of the Kenyon Review

HARVARD REVIEW Inside the Book feature WITH A CUBAN SONG IN THE HEART Iván Acosta "The music in this collection informs and interacts with every moment in With a Cuban Song in the Heart...."

HARVARD REVIEW

HARVARD REVIEW

Azteca News Miércoles 12 de Abril de 2017 Sección Literaria CON UNA CANCION CUBANA EN EL CORAZON Por Iván Acosta Editorial UN-GYVE PRESS —"Un texto para apreciar, para obsequiar y para disfrutar."

Azteca News 

John Crowe Ransom’s Quarrel with Himself The Hudson Review Spring 2016 (Volume LXIX, No. 1) Robert Archambeau — "Almost thirty years ago, Ransom’s biographer Thomas Daniel Young spoke of the urgent need for a variorum edition of Ransom’s poetry, and only now, with the appearance of Ben Mazer’s Collected Poems of John Crowe Ransom, do we have one. It is a shame that it took so very long for someone to answer Young’s call, but it is a boon to all who care for
Ransom’s work that Mazer was the one to do so: his scrupulously
edited book includes all of Ransom’s textual variants in detailed
end notes."

THE HUDSON REVIEW

Classic Ransom The Hopkins Review Volume 9, Number 1, Winter 2016 Ryan Wilson — "Certainly, lay-readers and scholars alike, both of the present and of the future, owe Mr. Mazer a debt of gratitude for his formidable editorial achievement."

The Hopkins Review

The Hopkins Review

Poet of the Violent and the Chaste  The New York Review of Books Helen Vender April 21 2016 Issue —  Ben Mazer, editor The Collected Poems of John Crowe Ransom (Un-Gyve Press) "...painstakingly edited and well introduced by Ben Mazer...."

The New York Review of Books

By foul subtraction
John Greening
04 November 2015
Literature & Poetry TLS
—  Ben Mazer, editor The Collected Poems of John Crowe Ransom (Un-Gyve Press) “has done us a great service in producing this mighty and handsome Collected Poems....” 

The Times Literary Supplement

Alex Shakespeare "On in Prose"  FALL/WINTER 2015 Volume 8.1 Literary Matters — “Each one of the book’s forty-two patchwork pieces is brief, but the effects are wide and deep.” Kasia Buczkowska's in Prose, Un-Gyve Press. 

 

‘Paris’ memories APRIL 18, 2015 Boston Globe — “Marian Parry’s The Paris Book (Un-Gyve Press) is an exquisitely drawn love story that dates back to her childhood....”                    Jan Gardner   

ILLUSTRATION BY MARIAN PARRY

WINTER-SPRING 2015 Bostonia “In the Service of Bob Dylan’s Genius — The Lyrics is an elegant, outsized tribute to the Bard” Susan Seligson

Editors of The Lyrics (from left) Lisa Nemrow, Julie Nemrow, and Christopher Ricks. Photo by Cydney Scott


Feb. 19, 2015 Issue

New York Review of Books: “Bob Dylan’s Genius” — The Lyrics. as never before “has so meticulously and so brilliantly set these words in lines and stanzas, which remind us that some of the greatest lyric poems, from Shakespeare and Thomas Campion and George Herbert to the Child Ballads and beyond, are written accommodations of performance.”

The Lyrics. Since 1962

The Lyrics. Bob Dylan in GQ Magazine among Literary Editor Olivia Cole’s selected best of the year

The Lyrics. Since 1962 

GQ UK

The Lyrics. Bob Dylan in The New Yorker: Nine Great Poetry Books of 2014

The New Yorker

The Lyrics. Since 1962, Bob Dylan, a TLS Book of the Year.

The Times Literary Supplement


January 2015
The Paris Book: Select Morsel

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BOSTON, Oct. 8, 2014 /PRNewswire/

Un-Gyve Press to Publish Selected Poems of Greg Delanty

A sense of vital, actual experience is in fact wonderfully sustained in Delanty's verse in its notable linguistic energy, product of a distinctive fusion ...

Oct 07, 2014, 14:05 ET

Un-Gyve Press to Publish With a Cuban song in the heart by acclaimed playwright, Iván Acosta

Rich in sentiment, anecdote and history, it is a sincere and authentic book which will inform and delight its readers. I recommend it with enthusiasm. 

—Oscar Hijuelos

 October 8, 2014 | Rolling Stone
Every Bob Dylan Lyric Ever to Fill 13-Pound, 960-Page Book
By Kory Grow

Bob Dylan's lyrics will be compiled in the new book The Lyrics: Since 1962                 John Cohen/Getty
 

Oct 07, 2014 2:33 PM

The Most of Bob Dylan
By ALLAN KOZINN

When music fans in the 1960s described Bob Dylan’s songs, in terminology of the day, as “heavy,” they didn’t know the half of it.

The Lyrics. Since 1962 in New York Times

Oct 02, 2014, 14:01 ET

Un-Gyve Press to Publish Views of the Haunts and Homes of the British Poets, Oct. 19 1850 

From our Un-Gyve archives, an original sequence of thirty-nine small watercolours by an unknown artist, the home or haunt and the poet being...


Sep 25, 2014, 16:21 ET

Un-Gyve Press to Publish Collected Poems of John Crowe Ransom edited by Ben Mazer 

Of the tread of the dark wood mold and turfy rye, / Rich smell of horse in his nostril, wind in his eye, – from "In Air,"...

Sep 25, 2014, 08:00 ET                    

Three Talks by Christopher Ricks THE KOSCIUSZKO FOUNDATION 15 EAST 65th STREET, NYC | 7:30PM 

Jun 18, 2014, 15:32 ET

Mark Chester's Touring Exhibit Twosomes at the Reykjavik Museum of Photography

 Mark Chester's Twosomes touring exhibit and award-winning companion book from Un-Gyve Press represents images culled from his...

May 29, 2014, 20:35 ET

Un-Gyve Press Publishes The Paris Book by Marian Parry

 In 1952 Ben Shahn said to Marian Parry, "Marian, make the most beautiful book you can and I'll take it to Curt Valentin." She made The Paris...

May 13, 2014 - The Pursuitist: 
Marian Parry’s ‘The Paris Book’ Published After 60 Years

In 1952, Marian Parry presented her editor Curt Valentin with The Paris Book, a series of illustrations depicting the French capital during the ...


May 29, 2014, 19:23 ET

Un-Gyve Press Publishes in Prose by Kasia Buczkowska

 Kasia Buczkowska is a writer and translator in New York City, who writes very short fiction in Polish and English. She studied English...

REALITY CHECK - Dave Fries’ Top 10 Albums Of 2013

December 2013 Eric Harabadian on REALITY CHECK for Jazz Inside 

‘“Masters of musical dialogue”; that’s how leader Greg Hopkins describes his creative cohorts on this album. And who could dispute him? It’s evident from the first note that there is a rich connection that’s taken place throughout these recording sessions and between the participants involved. This record, essentially, is about seasoned vets that have nurtured their sound for a significant amount of time. And here are the results of their diligent road work and artistic commitment....’

BOSTON, Nov. 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/

Un-Gyve Press Publishes Some Complicity: Poems and Translations by Harry Thomas

BOSTON, March 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/

Reality Check - The Greg Hopkins Quintet + One - New #Jazz Album: April 1 Release on Un-Gyve Records

 
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