Test 2018 posts
Eileen Myles's Homage to a Dearly Departed Dog
Afterglow is written in part from the perspective of the poet's pit bull, Rosie.
Felix Bernstein
Interview
No Rest Cures for the Wicked: An Interview with Psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster
A psychoanalyst and cultural commentator, Jamieson Webster upends academic discourses on a daily basis.
Interview
"Virtuosity Provides Freedom": Thoughts from an African American Composer
Lamar’s performances evoke a haunted, transcendent act of awakened consciousness and composed virtuosity that b(l)end the conventions of goth rock and European classical music, opera and the avant-garde, and spirituals and free jazz, yielding something that is singularly his own.
Art
The Prison House of Post-Internet Poetry: A Critical Look at the Poetry of the New Museum’s Triennial
Poetry has never been more of a hackneyed product — from tiresome MFA hybrid poems to stale derivations of pop/Net conceptualism to the New New New York School, always proclaiming that its linking of art, gay male cosmopolitanism, and poetics is “new.”
Art
Breaking Camp: John Waters After Divine
Shown as part of Beverly Hills John, his third show at the Marianne Boesky gallery, John Waters’s video Kiddie Flamingos made us chuckle, which is rare for a Chelsea gallery work. But then, his gallery art has always been funny.
Poetry
The Golden Mean: Dorothea Lasky and the Well-Adjusted Poem
Dorothea Lasky is the Ello of poetry. She gives us poems that are cute and zany, but on a clean, ad-free platform that is friendly, complex, and interpersonally sensitive. She is poetry’s golden mean between radical and legible, romantic and classical, interpersonal and impersonal: in other words, s