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Originally Posted by rostasi
Does that include this one:
Buffalo, New York
Every two weeks on Tuesday during the academic year
from 7:30 to 11:00 or so.
Contact
Alphonse Kolodziejczak
70 Rollingwood
Williamsville, NY 14221-1834
716-568-0808
akolo55@msn.com
The Poetry Collection
University of Buffalo
716-654-2917 |
So kind of you to dig that up! What a guy! THANKS!
Yes - my understanding is that that was the primary group in Buffalo. I originally found the contact listed at finneganswake.org and inquired about it at the Finnegans Waves art event. I had a cup of tea with a woman there who said she used to frequent the group but that it had since fizzled out. I don't believe the finneganswake.org resource list is actively maintained and current.
I'm also friends with a beautiful young woman who is a Joycean scholar who performed many of the archival scans of Joyce's crayon-stricken notebooks and earliest drafts of
The Wake as part of her graduate work for the University Poetry Collection. I mentioned my interest in a reading group to her and she's encouraged me to try and start one anew with hopefully a younger audience.
The head of the University Poetry Collection explained to me that Stephen James Joyce, (Joyce's grandson and sole living descendant), is a miserly man who has repeatedly destroyed artifacts and threatened legal action against anyone who attempts to publish or publically perform James' work. For that reason, the facsimile notebook I seek commands a painfully high price and it is highly unlikely that anything else will be published in my lifetime. The text was produced in an incredibly limited run and those with copies are collectors and scholars who are unlikely to put them up for sale.
There is also a rare bookshop in town the proprietor of which is a Joyce scholar and a fellow of the Poetry Collection. He has a large framed art print in his bookshop of Nightmaze - a 2000/2001 stage adaptation of
The Wake written by Vincent O'Neil of the city's Irish Classical Theatre. Sadly he isn't willing to part with it but I took down the name of the graphic design company that produced the original limited run of the print and am going to see if they would consider printing a single edition for my home.
I was also incredibly grateful to be contacted by a gentleman who created an independent project compiling all known audio recordings inspired by Joyce's writings. He read some of my journal entries and asked if he could bestow the complete collection as a gift to my archive. I was honored to accept.
As an introvert, (and admittedly not the most proficient at reading
The Wake aloud), I've had anxiety about attempting to start a new group. Perhaps one day I'll work up the nerve, but for now, I'm just grateful to live in a city with so much love for the author.
(I'll stop rambling now!)
Thanks again for digging up the contact, though. I really appreciate it!
