The Lull Report for Tuesday morning, March 4, 2014 …

… courtesy of Dave Lull:

… And the winner is: Yale Younger Poets Prize goes to Ansel Elkins - latimes.com.

… Together at last: Frank Gehry and Alexander Calder, a captivating union at LACMA.

It's an intriguing union: Gehry and Calder, who died in 1976, were influenced by and at times resisted the aesthetic trends of the last century. Both men summoned unique, unorthodox styles. So it was fitting that Gehry was asked to design the Calder exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which required dozens of sculptures and mobiles — some resembling fish bones, others solar systems — to breathe individually and in a wider expanse, collectively.

… Art and life:  To Tell and Not To Tell.

Might we …  suppose that in creating a novel an author is using many levels of address, ranging from utterances directed to those closest to the author, perhaps even in a sense exclusively to him or herself, and utterances addressed to everyone? So that certain aspects of a novel are, in fact, or are also, conversations overheard, and as such perhaps more intriguing than comprehensible? Is this what creates an element of enigma in many writers’ narratives, a surplus of emotion that seems to go beyond the apparent content?

… The bottom line and more: The bleak state of American fiction.