Enrique Martínez Celaya - Böcker

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Whale and Star Press Enrique Martínez Celaya's blog, Bad Time for Poetry, began on August 24, 2007, and ended on May 25, 2009. In the emergence of the literary genre of the blog, Bad Time for Poetry existed as an antiblog, showing how this literary genre can be used to cultivate and preserve cultural commentary that has lasting value and is mindful of the past and responsible to the future. His posts were intended to be read closely, contemplated, and assimilated into readers' lives. Martínez Celaya's blog is now preserved in this complete compilation of his posts.

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Whale and Star Press This limited edition book documents the creation of four music albums in the Nomad Series. The 144-page full-color, hardcover book, wrapped in linen with a CD inset designed to hold the four volumes of the series, was designed and produced by Enrique Martínez Celaya. The book includes work drafts and photos relating to the creation of the Nomad Series as well as lyrics, essays, and original art work by Celaya.

This collection, spanning nearly a decade of artistic activity, features selections of writings that trace the intellectual influences and track the development of one of the more formidable and productive minds in the contemporary art world. The writings comprise Enrique MartÍnez Celaya’s public lectures; essays; interviews; correspondence with artists, critics, and scholars; artist statements; blog posts; and journal entries. These texts were written during MartÍnez Celaya’s appointment as Visiting Presidential Professor at the University of Nebraska; Roth Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Dartmouth College; and, most recently, as the first Provost Professor of Humanities and Arts at the University of Southern California. Marked by MartÍnez Celaya’s encyclopedic curiosity and considerable knowledge about the world, these writings and interviews explore the role of art in life, evaluate texts by other modern and contemporary artists and thinkers, and reveal the artist’s deep engagement with artistic, philosophical, and literary lines of inquiry.