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‘Faut-il qu’il m’en souvienne?’ (by Mitch Sisskind)
You there having coitus, I gesture to you, I salute you and I genuflect as befits you And myself also, wandering Santa Monica Tonight as you have coitus. Are you the School teacher…
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Archie Rand: The Motets (after Eugenio Montale) & collaborations with David Shapiro
Archie Rand, Motet #1, 2013, 24 x 36 inches, acrylic, enamel and fabric on canvas. BravinLee is very pleased to exhibit the Motets, a series of 20 paintings by Archie Rand, after the poems of…
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“The Jews of Kaifeng” [by Adrienne Su]
When the exhibit went up at Peachtree Center,the Chinese of Atlanta flocked downtown.Jews had been in Henan so close to forever,they weren’t seen as foreign. And we had foundan exhibit on China that wasn’t…
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Raymond Roussel’s “Nouvelles Impressions d’Afrique”: 3 Extracts translated by Mark Ford
(Ed. note: In 2011 Mark Ford wrote for us about the experience of translating Raymond Roussel's Nouvelles Impressions d’Afrique. You can read yesterday's post here. Find Ford's new translation here. ) The first two extracts are footnotes…
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Nancy Vieira Couto’s “Carlota Wears Her Sister’s Life Like Skin”
Carlota wears her sister’s life like skin,a snug imprisonment. She wanted less surety, wanted not to bemoonservant to a planet on its boisterous orbit. But Maria Conceição’schildren were easy, their faces bowls to be…
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Mark Ford on Raymond Roussel: “Such Also Wonder”
Nouvelles Impressions d’Afrique is largely made up of lists. Most of Canto II, for instance, is taken up by a list of 207 examples of things of things that might be mistaken for smaller things…
