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art jamesPaper marshall in 3Dat icon _by nicholas schroeder | p 16 May 3–9, 2013 | Portland’s news + arts + entertainMent authority | Free unions in maine Laborers may have a bright future _by Deirdre Fulton | p 8 THis a word for assad maine plays JusT in Matt Bors: UN’s watching | p 4 !At Acorn festival | p 18 André Derain (French, 1880-1954), Bridge over the Riou, 1906, oil on canvas, 32 1/2 x 40 inches. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The William S. Paley Collection The exhibition is organized by The Museum of Modern Art, May 2–September 8, 2013 New York. The Portland Museum of Art presentation is generously supported by George and Eileen Gillespie, and Isabelle and Scott Black. This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities. Corporate Sponsors: Media Sponsors: (207) 775-6148 | portlandmuseum.org © The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The William S. Paley Collection. 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MINdICH Chief oPerating offiCer EVERETT FINKELSTEIN (207) 772-8274 THE PHoENIX NEWSPAPERS | PHoENIX MEdIA VENTuRES | MASS WEB PRINTING STATETHEATREPORTLAND.COM portcitymusichall.com 4 May 3, 2013 | the portland phoenix | portland.t hephoenix.coM CNN’s Wolf Blitzer left a pressure cooker on a Boston sidewalk two days this Just in after the marathon. #numbstream Words off the page Frontline reporting Tales from When silence speaks volumes maraThon On her deathbed, Terry Tem- for whom this book is written to heed, fpest Williams’s mother left her to pay attention. “In a voiced commu- madness daughter three shelves of cloth-bound nity, we all flourish,” she writes. journals. When Williams opened them, While much of Williams’s book Why did Wolf Blitzer’s hoping to find solace as well as perhaps treats voice as a personal and internal fCNN crew leave a pressure some insight into her mother’s soul, all concept, she doesn’t neglect the global cooker on a Boston sidewalk she found was blank pages. Volumes context, which is unsurprising given two days after the bombing? of empty journals, bestowed as a final, her status as a renowned thinker on so- Seek answers here. inscrutable gift that Williams came cial justice and environmental issues. Chris Faraone was a block and a half from the finish to interpret in many ways — as an act “We are engaged in two wars, big line of the Boston Marathon, en route to a bar called Fo- of aggression, as a vessel for her own wars with big costs,” she reminds us. rum on Boylston Street, when the bombs went off. The truths, as a mirror, and as a void. “The only thing quiet about them is day’s shift from carnival to chaos is preserved impeccably In her latest book, released earlier that the conflicts in Afghanistan and on his Twitter feed. this year in paperback, Williams (who Iraq have remained largely hidden, “I’d make fun of all the people going to watch the mara- speaks at Longfellow Books on May 2) Louis Gakumba denied except to those who are fight- hon [sic] in running gear, but I totally did go to see Magic dives from those stark white journal LuMInARY Terry Tempest ing them. This is our national lie, that Mike in my G-string,” he wrote at one point. Soon after, he pages into the stories and revelations Williams is in town this week. somehow these wars exist outside of us. was sending dispatches from a war zone: “Some relatively they call to mind. Woven together, America’s War on Terror has silenced calm, others crying for blocks near Boston marathon finish these meditations comprise When Women us, turned us into sleepwalkers, not line where loud noises were just heard,” “Observer who was Were Birds: Fifty-Four Variations on Voice (Pica- listen. And here, Williams shows us only unable to speak, but afraid to speak right near Boston Marathon finish line during explosions dor; $15), a surging and lyrical memoir how. Carried on waves of prose, we get out. In times of war we can use our voic- tells me he smelled gun powder,” “FYI to my friends and fam of womanhood as influenced by nature to know Williams as a writer, an activ- es as a stay against those who are suffer- and readers: I’m okay, and for the next few hours will be and nurture. ist, a wife, a daughter, and an adopted ing. In times of war, survival depends writing and processing today’s pandemonium.” A woman hears many voices over the mother; she asks us to join her on a on listening to that suffering.” That last tweet could serve as an epigraph for the e-book course of her life: Her own, one hopes, journey of self-discovery and we do so, _Deirdre Fulton Faraone, a former Boston Phoenix staff writer who covered ev- and that of her mother, also those of her finding our own questions reflected in erything from Occupy protests to the LA rap collective Odd Fu- grandmother and great-grandmother hers. In this book, even what is sound- TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS | Thursday, ture at the bygone paper, released last week called Heartbreak and all the women who came before. less has voice: silence, sorrow, intu- May 2 @ 7 pm | Longfellow Books, One Hell: Searching for Sanity in Boston Through a Week of Tragedy and Terror. Like birdsongs in a forest, these can ition, death. These intangibles speak Monument Way, Portland | 207.772.4045 | Faraone didn’t just spend the hours following the attack be difficult to discern unless you truly loudly, in fact — beseeching the women longfellowbooks.com | coyoteclan.com writing and processing; he has never really stopped.