![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So, I’d say that Ultramarine is more somber than The Pink Trance Notebooks and Camp Marmalade, partly because the composition of Ultramarine took much, much longer. ![]() That’s a writing rhythm I noticed in my book The Anatomy of Harpo Marx-how giddy the first four chapters are and how somber and death-driven the later ones are. Wayne Koestenbaum: In all of my long projects, there’s a movement from optimism and exaltation to a certain bittersweet sobriety by the end. Is there really a conclusion to a trilogy based in trance? I’m particularly interested in how you see Ultramarine fitting into the arc of the trilogy. Patrick Davis: You’ve just published the third of your trance notebooks, Ultramarine, with Nightboat Books. Here Koestenbaum reflects on his various obsessions-color, kink, the Northeast corridor, Gertrude Stein-and his signature “trance poetics.” (His poem, “,” was just featured in Harvard Review 59.) In an interview with Patrick Davis, he discusses his recently completed trilogy of “trance notebooks”: The Pink Trance Notebooks, Camp Marmalade, and, this February, Ultramarine. Wayne Koestenbaum is an essayist, professor, public intellectual, and poet. “I have a crush on the world to some extent”: An Interview with Wayne Koestenbaum ![]()
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