06/23/2026
Transatlantic Influences Part 3: In Black and White, and mostly in France, a dialogue between Leonard Schwartz and Allen S. Weiss
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The latest post in Leonard Schwartz’s Transatlantic Schwartz’s series for Future-feed.net our online extension.
LS: “This piece is the second part of an interview writer Allen Weiss did with me. Weiss may be the interviewer, but he is the one that has been a central go-between French and American writing and thought for many years.”
Leonard Schwartz is a poet and writer and the author of numerous books of poetry, including, most recently, Flacofolio (with artist Heide Hatry), Actualities I: Transparent, to the Stone, Actualities II and III: Two Burned Hotels, and Actualities IV/V Comic Earth (2021, 2022, 2023, Goats & Compasses). Heavy Sublimation (Talisman House, 2018), If (Talisman House 2012) and Salamander: A Bestiary (Chax Press, 2017), with painter Simon Carr, are also out and about. His work in poetics The New Babel: Toward a Poetics of the Mid-East Crises (University of Arkansas Press, 2016), is inclusive of poetry, essays, and interviews. Other titles include At Element (2011), which explore the idea of an eco-poetics, as well as The Library of Seven Readings (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2008). He edited and co-translated Benjamin Fondane’s Cine-Poems and Other, for New York Review Books. From 2003 to 2018 he produced and hosted the radio program Cross Cultural Poetics. Schwartz splits his time between New York City and the Pacific Northwest.
�Allen S. Weiss is the author and editor of over forty volumes in the fields of art history, performance theory, landscape architecture, gastronomy, sound art and experimental theater. Among his theoretical works are The Aesthetics of Excess (SUNY); Phantasmic Radio (Duke); Breathless: Sound Recording, Disembodiment, and the Transformation of Lyrical Nostalgia (Wesleyan); Feast and Folly: Cuisine, Intoxication, and the Poetics of the Sublime (SUNY); Varieties of Audio Mimesis: Musical Evocations of Landscape (Errant Bodies). His creative work includes Theater of the Ears (a play for electronic marionette and taped voice based on the writings of Valère Novarina), which premiered at CalArts ended its tour at the Avignon Off Festival; Danse Macabre (a marionette theater for the dolls of Michel Nedjar), which premiered as part of the Poupées exhibition that he curated at the Halle Saint Pierre in Paris, and was reprised at the In Transit festival at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin and the Centre Pompidou Metz; and a novel, Le livre bouffon (Le Seuil). His radio productions include L’Indomptable (with Gregory Whitehead) for France Culture; the Hörspiel Glissando for the Klangkunst program of Deutschlandfunk Kultur; and Carmignano, an essay on w**e for Radio Papesse in Florence. He produced and directed Poupées des ténèbres / Dolls of Darkness, a documentary film about the dolls of Michel Nedjar and the Holocaust, and most recently published Unpacking My Library, or, The Autobiography of Teddy (K. Verlag), which he ghost wrote for his Teddy bear. He is Distinguished Teacher in the departments of Performance Studies and Cinema Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.
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