Book Launch « More Fugitive Than Light: Poems of Rome, Venice, Paris, 2016-2017 »
Hudson Hall and The Flow Chart Foundation present a book launch and panel discussion for
More Fugitive Than Light: Poems of Rome, Venice, Paris, 2016-2027
by Richard Milazzo with collages by Daniel Rothbart
Friday, June 26, 2025 at 6pm
Book launch and discussion with writer Richard Milazzo and artist Daniel Rothbart, Moderated by Éric Longo, Interim Executive Director of The Flow Chart Foundation
Hudson Hall at the historic Hudson Opera House
327 Warren Street
Hudson, NY 12534
(518) 822-1438
Hudson, New York: Hudson Hall and The Flow Chart Foundation celebrate the book launch of More Fugitive Than Light, a collaboration between scholar and poet Richard Milazzo and artist Daniel Rothbart. The book features 70 of the artist’s digital collages in analogical dialogue with 58 poems by the poet. The book also presents essays the co-authors wrote on one another’s work.
Richard’s poems reflect a fascination with diverse cultures, skirting a love-hate relationship with his native New York City while embracing many of the storied cities of Europe and Far Eastern destinations such as Saigon, Penang, Phnom Penh, Seoul, and Kyoto. Much in the same spirit, Daniel’s collages ask the question: “Are they bracketing peripheries without centers or centers without peripheries?” Both address the magisterial but mystery-driven assertion and question Yeats and Rilke once posed, respectively: “the center does not” and “Who, if [we] cried out, would hear [us] among the angelic orders?”
Publisher: Tsukuda Island Press / Publication date: July 2024 / Price: $30.00 paperback / 256 Pages / ISBN:1-893207-50-1 // 978-1-893207-50-9
2019, photo credit: Joy L. Glass.
Exhibition
Collages from More Fugitive Than Light are on view at The Flow Chart Foundation as part of Daniel Rothbart’s survey exhibition titled Plus fugitif que la lumière from June 14 – July 14, 2025.
Hudson Hall at the historic Hudson Opera House is a cultural beacon in the Hudson Valley, offering a dynamic year-round schedule of music, theater, dance, literature, film, workshops for youth and adults, as well as family programs and large-scale events such as the Hudson Jazz Festival. Located in a historic landmark that houses New York State’s oldest surviving theater, Hudson Hall underwent a full restoration and reopened to the public in April 2017 for the first time in over 55 years.
Founded on the legacy of legendary American poet John Ashbery, The Flow Chart Foundation explores the relationship between poetry and other art forms as a way to foster creativity, and to promote engagement with John’s work and its influence on contemporary poetry and other creative fields.