Melinda in Conversation with Eugenio Montale

With this publication, Melinda Camber Porter In Conversation with Eugenio Montale, we have an opportunity to listen to the strong voice of Eugenio Montale (1975 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature) discussing poetry and its role in society.

“Nowadays, it is becoming harder to distinguish between artistic and commercial life. The role of the artist has been reduced to his success or failure in commercial terms… these mass-produced voices are not those which will tell us whether we are heading for disaster and, if so, how to prevent it." - Eugenio Montale

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Coming Soon!

Melinda Camber Porter's critically acclaimed novel, Badlands, a love story set in the awe-inspiring landscape of the Wounded Knee Reservation in South Dakota, is coming in November. 

The novel that Peter Matthiessen called "an achievement" and Joyce Carol Oates called "very  strong, very intellegent" will be published by Blake Press in a beautifully illustrated, hardcover edition.

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Melinda in Conversation with Roy Lichtenstein

"I know, in advance, the appearance the brush stroke will create, so that they appear spontaneous but are in fact as restrained as any other style. Nobody just throws paint; it's got some purpose. You're directing it and it may look spontaneous because you're making single uncorrected brush strokes. But I do it with the knowledge that I'm going to be able to adjust it and change it or remove it or paint over it. These painterly brush strokes are both spontaneous and directed. That's not exactly the right word. Controlled, I guess is better." - from Melinda Camber Porter in Conversation with Roy Lichtenstein

 

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Melinda in conversation with Michelangelo Antoniono

Michelangelo Antoniono (1912 - 2007) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, editor, and short story writer.

Melinda spoke with Michelangelo Antoniono in Rome in June 1977.

“Too many untold stories are weighing me down. The images of films I have not made continue to accumulate and obsess me.”

“I always create a catalogue of objects around a character. I do not see him or her as the center of my film. There is no hierarchy in my mind between a character’s context, clothes, objects, and his personality or emotions. People think you have to tell a story about someone rather than something. But the two are invisible for people and so enmeshed in their surroundings.”

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From the Exhibition

Blogger Dana Southerland visited Melinda's exhibition at the University of South Dakota recently and wrote about at her blog.

"Reading about Porter’s nomadic background and artistic approaches to her work had me intrigued. She painted these abstract and gestural triptychs that were vibrant in color and dynamic in composition. The thick layers of paint and textural qualities made me get lost in her work. I wanted to get up close, examine her brush strokes, and imagine how she applied them to the canvas."

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Melinda in Conversation with Françoise Sagan

Melinda on Françoise Sagan, from Through Parisian Eyes: Reflections on Contemporary French Arts and Culture: 

 

Sagan talks quietly. She responds to questions with a momentary look of deep reflection, then looks straight  at you as she rushes through her thoughts. She rarely disappears into a reverie or a monologue. And she does not lose herself in her thoughts. She constantly tried to find out my responses to all the issues we discussed.m not as a way of avoiding being interviewed but rather out of curiosity. She is extremely considerate and thought she had just come in from a dentist's appointment, it was hard to tell that she was in pain. Her liveliness radiates out of her very thin frame and gives her an ethereal quality. Yet her voice is deep and earthy.

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Melinda discusses her novel, Badlands, on South Dakota Public Radio

During her 1996 interview with Carl Gerky of South Dakota Public Radio, Melinda describes the South Dakota landscapes and discusses her novel, Badlands, set on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

    

    

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