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Puzzling Out the Gap Between Communication and Meaning
Sid Gold's poems address our failure to hear what others are saying.
Douglas Messerli
Art
When Gordon Parks Photographed the Life of a Brazilian Boy and Sparked Debate
Published in Life Magazine, the images of the sick and impoverished twelve-year-old Flávio da Silva prompted an outpouring of letters and offers of financial assistance.
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David Kinloch's Poetry Explores Scottish and Biblical Lore
Kinloch seeks out a Scots "Orpheus" figure who is a merchant, a troubadour, and a juggler.
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Vasily Kandinsky's Poems
Evocations of color dominate these ruminative prose poems.
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Charles Bernstein's Poems Rethink Language
Bernstein often transforms accessible language into a visual puzzle.
Art
When "Outliers" and "Outsiders" Are No Longer Useful Categories in Art
Inherent in the show Outliers and American Vanguard Art is a kind of subtle hierarchy among artists, even if the curator has tried to delimit its force.
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Ranjit Hoskote's Poems Visit a Kingdom of Shadows
Hoskote's poems describe a landscape of doubt and loss.
Art
The Science and Pleasures of How We See
In looking through 3D vision, we are able to turn flat surfaces into the way we daily see the world, and there is a kind a miracle, so it appears, in that very act.
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Ted Greenwald's Poems Chart Our Connections to the Earth
Greenwald combines a Wordsworthian sense of nature with cartoon-like characters.
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Néstor Perlongher Conjures the Disappeared and the Dead
Perlongher evokes Argentina, its people, and their resistance in the face of violent dictatorship.
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The Complex and Passionate Poems of Joseph Ceravolo
Ceravolo worked for most of his life as a civil engineer and brought an outsider sensibility to his poetics.
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The Reluctant Surrealist
Guy R. Beining's poems appear disjunctive but are in fact carefully constructed in ways that call to mind André Breton, Luis Buñuel, and Paul Delvaux.