Paul Stubbs 7/19/21 Paul Stubbs 7/19/21

The Acceptance of Loss, Part II

To read Kerouac, especially his poetry, is to listen to an already posthumous message sent from himself to himself in the void after the end of speech…

Madison Winston 7/15/21 Madison Winston 7/15/21

Meow Wolf: Revenge of the Artist?

When Meow Wolf’s claim to fame, House of Eternal Return, hatched in March 2016, the art world was forced to confront the monster that two decades of discourse around socially-engaged art had unwittingly created.

Louis Sterrett 7/13/21 Louis Sterrett 7/13/21

Walter Benjamin’s Marxist Critique

“Critique is an exploration of conditions of possibility for freedom in transformation.”

Hugo Skarstedt 6/9/21 Hugo Skarstedt 6/9/21

Review of Sanya Kantarovsky at Luhring Augustine

Hugo Skarstedt reviews Sanya Kantarovsky’s “Recent Faces” at Luhring Augustine Tribeca

pablo lopez 6/3/21 pablo lopez 6/3/21

Review of Structures the Moment (approx.) by pablo lopez

pablo lopez reviews his own new book of poetry, out now from Anonymous Energy.

Inspector Watt 6/1/21 Inspector Watt 6/1/21

Anvil and Rose 14

“I have yet to arrive / I will never arrive / in the center of everything is the poem / intact sun / inescapable night.”

Herman Van den Reeck 5/31/21 Herman Van den Reeck 5/31/21

Anvil and Rose 13

“I have been wrong before, god of syntax / and understatement, god of slips in silk / and polyester, god of the laboratory, god of newsprint / and sunscreen”

Ioanna Kostopoulou 5/26/21 Ioanna Kostopoulou 5/26/21

Review of Theater Symptoms by Robert Musil

Ioanna Kostopoulou reviews Genese Grill’s translation of Robert Musil’s Theater Symptoms

Inspector Watt 4/29/21 Inspector Watt 4/29/21

Anvil and Rose 12

For Anvil and Rose 12, Inspector Watt returns with reviews of books from Paul Celan (tr. Pierre Joris), Jean Daive (on Celan), Alen Hamza, Lara Mimosa Montes, and a COVID anthology edited by Alice Quinn.

Jessa Crispin 4/23/21 Jessa Crispin 4/23/21

Pulse

Every time a new technology is invented our first thought is, how can I use this to get off? Our second: how can we use this to talk to the dead?

Herman Van den Reeck 4/22/21 Herman Van den Reeck 4/22/21

Anvil and Rose 11

In this latest Anvil and Rose, Herman Van den Reeck reviews books from Rosebud Ben-Oni, Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley, Andres Cerpa, Andrew Levy, and Jackie Wang.

Hans Bellmer 4/16/21 Hans Bellmer 4/16/21

The Anatomy of the Image

The experience is absolute; a demonstration is made of the presence of an incomplete reality to which its image is opposed by the intervention of a motor element condensing the real and the virtual into a superior unity.

Tamas Vilaghy 4/13/21 Tamas Vilaghy 4/13/21

Aprils

Every year in April I am reminded of two monumental poetic works which begin with the Earth’s springtime renewal: The Canterbury Tales from 1400 and The Waste Land from 1922.

Greg Gerke 4/12/21 Greg Gerke 4/12/21

Returning to The Dreamlife of Angels

Art, that great teacher, says to us, like Robert Frost’s most famous lines, “Here are your waters and your watering place. / Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.”

Peter Cole 4/1/21 Peter Cole 4/1/21

Bloom’s Last Word

“We hear the intuitive Bloom, the open and receptive reader, the brooder and fabulous conversation partner, talking and chuckling, searching and scowling; we see him rubbing his brow and thinking aloud…”