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Douglas Messerli

Douglas Messerli is an American writer, professor, and publisher based in Los Angeles. In 1976, he started Sun & Moon, a magazine of art and literature, which became Sun & Moon press, and later Green Integer press. He has taught at Temple University in Philadelphia, and Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles.

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Hunger and Thirst: Chantal Akerman’s ‘Je tu il elle’

by Douglas Messerli August 13, 2016August 12, 2016

Chantal Akerman’s death by suicide in October 2015, led me to revisit many of her films and to watch new ones, among them Je tu il elle of 1975.

Posted inArt

Robert Mapplethorpe: Beauty, Power, and Sex from the Outside

by Douglas Messerli April 30, 2016May 29, 2016

LOS ANGELES — The remarkable two-museum show Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium, gathering hundreds of photographs, collages, installations and other objects at both the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Getty Center, represents just a portion of the spectacular gift of the Mapplethorpe Trust to those institutions.

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A Dying Society: Abel Gance’s ‘End of the World’

by Douglas Messerli April 10, 2016April 10, 2016

Abel Gance’s 1931 film End of the World certainly did represent the “end” of a very important thing: the director’s career as a great cinema pioneer.

Posted inBooks

Susan Bee and Johanna Drucker Tell the Real Life Stories of Fabulous Females

by Douglas Messerli February 27, 2016March 5, 2016

In the tradition of Lives of the Saints and, even more pointedly, Laura (Riding) Jackson’s Lives of Wives, visual artist Susan Bee and book artist Johanna Drucker have created a wonderful new “picture” book, Fabulas Feminae or fables of women.

Posted inFilm

A Test of Faith: Jacques Rivette’s Story of Marie and Julien

by Douglas Messerli February 14, 2016February 14, 2016

No one is quite likeable in Jacques Rivette’s 2003 film, The Story of Marie and Julien.

Posted inArt

On the Outside Looking In: Mardsen Hartley’s Poetry

by Douglas Messerli January 24, 2016January 27, 2016

Marsden Hartley represents a rather contradictory figure in American art and literature. Both poet and painter—he wrote poetry during the mornings throughout most of his life and painted in the afternoons—he survived through the latter, but actively sought out literary attention and wrote about literature as a “business.”

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I Am A Candle: The Poetry of Arseny Tarkovsky

by Douglas Messerli October 18, 2015October 21, 2015

Although long recognized in the Soviet Union and later Russia as a great poet continuing in the tradition of Osip Mandelstam, Arseny Tarkovsky — father to renowned film director Andrei — has been little known to Western readers, and almost entirely unknown in English.

Posted inPoetry

The Drama in the Everyday: Bernadette Mayer’s Early Poems

by Douglas Messerli August 15, 2015August 20, 2015

I first began reading the works of Bernadette Mayer in 1975 or 1976, contemporaneous with their publications. While I didn’t realize it at the time, Mayer wroten them in her late 20s and early 30s, quite close to my own age.

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Riding Backwards to See What You Missed

by Douglas Messerli July 5, 2015July 9, 2015

In his introduction to Clarence Major’s new poetry collection From Now On, Yusef Komunyakaa hints, even if he does not directly state, that there is a kind of natural quietude about Major’s work.

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Corsino Fortes: The Poetics and Politics of Seduction

by Douglas Messerli May 2, 2015May 2, 2015

The central objects and images of Cabo Verde poet Corsino Fortes are deceptively simple: sun, moon, sea, stone, bread, drums, guitars, blood, palm, fist, thumb, and mouth, along with the colors red, yellow, and green, appear time and again throughout the book.

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Imagining the Ordinary: Heatherwick Studio at the Hammer Museum

by Douglas Messerli April 11, 2015April 11, 2015

With its new show, Provocations: The Architecture and Design of Heatherwick Studio, the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, portrays itself as a kind of exploratory museum.

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The Poet with a Razor in His Vest: Amiri Baraka’s Selected Poems

by Douglas Messerli April 5, 2015April 6, 2015

When a publication of a large selection of poems by Amiri Baraka, who died this past year, was announced, I immediately determined to review it.

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