This was a rare chance to hear a huge, unclassifiable work, part oratorio, part drama, and part political manifesto.
Bureaucratic menace and emotional totalitarianism combine to produce a thrillingly unclassifiable work.
What unfolds is a complex, typically unclassifiable work.
This Canadian poet, whose unclassifiable work is steeped in a deep knowledge of Hellenic literature as well as philosophy, fiction and other fields, brings her elusive, free-associative style to bear on the story of a marital breakup and "the dilemma of desire".
When the show is "Egg," PBS's 12-part series about the arts, add smart, welcoming companionship through an inclusive parade of performance, visual art, poetry and unclassifiable work.
More than 250 of them -- revealing portraits of the famous; documents of atrocity and heroism; sensitive studies of everyday life; unclassifiable works of art -- have been collected into a book, "The New York Times Magazine Photographs," edited by the magazine's director of photography, Kathy Ryan, to be published in October by Aperture.
But in "The Devil Finds Work" he tried something different: an amalgamation of essay, criticism, memoir, and plain old talk that presages so many of the delicious unclassifiable works by such subsequent writers as Renata Adler, John Keene, Sarah Manguso, Leslie Jamison, and Maggie Nelson.
I showed the manuscript to Simic, and he wrote that he found it one of the unclassifiable works that appear out of nowhere now and then, and defy genre categorization.
