APR 2017 – The Brooklyn Rail

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Co-Founder's Message

Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong Bui

Editor's Message

Reviews of relatively recent works of poetry and poetics, mostly by poets.
– edited by Charles Bernstein

Art

PAM GROSSMAN with Jessica Caroline
– By Jessica Caroline
AGNÈS VARDA with Alexandra Juhasz
SIMON STARLING with Marcia E. Vetrocq
Blur and Fuzz
– By Richard Shiff
ROE ETHRIDGE with Amy Ontiveros
Allan McCollum with Phong Bui
Barry Schwabsky with Jarrett Earnest

ArtSeen

Aleksandar Duravcevic: Steppenwolf
– By Alexandra Fowle
Threads of Fire and Water and Gold
– By Laila Pedro
The Power of Suggestion: Rhonda Wheatley
– By William Corwin
Romare Bearden: Bayou Fever and Related Works
– By Jessica Holmes
Sputterances, organized by Sanya Kantarovsky
– By Stephen Truax
Vanishing Points, curated by Andrianna Campbell
– By Tim Barry
Doug Wheeler: PSAD Synthetic Desert III
– By Hannah Sage Kay
A World of Emotions: Ancient Greece, 700 BC - 200 AD
– By Sara Christoph
Nina Chanel Abney Royal Flush
– By Samuel Feldblum
Al Taylor Early Paintings
– By Tom McGlynn
Turner’s Modern and Ancient Ports: Passages Through Time
– By Joyce Beckenstein
Sue Williams
– By Jessica Holmes
Alexei Jawlensky
– By Jason Rosenfeld
Rene Ricard: So, Who Left Who?
– By Charles Schultz
Paul Chan Rhi Anima
– By Ian Cofre
Marsden Hartley’s Maine
– By Noah Dillon
Simone Fattal
– By Phillip Griffith
Merce Cunningham Common Time
– By Elliot Josephine Leila Reichert
A Whole Culture: The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston's 2017 Foster Prize
– By Leah Harrington
Tattooed New York
– By Hovey Brock
EJ Hauser ME + YOU
– By Stephen Truax
JOS DE GRUYTER and HARALD THYS Xanax Film Festival
– By Erin Sweeny
The Garden of Eden
– By Phong Bui
SANDRO CHIA
– By Jonathan Goodman

Critics Page

Philippe Soupault, Lost Profiles: Memoirs of Cubism, Dada, and Surrealism
– By Paul Auster
Andrew Dodds, I, Sparkie
– By Derek Beaulieu
Erín Moure, My Beloved Wager: Essays from a Writing Practice
– By Caroline Bergvall
Daniil Kharms, Russian Absurd: Selected Writings
– By Charles Bernstein
Moez Surani, ةيلمع Operación Opération Operation 行动 Oперация
– By Christian Bök
Tom Raworth, As When
– By Miles Champion
David Antin, i never knew what time it was
– By Cecilia Corrigan
Adam Fitzgerald, George Washington: Poems
– By Samuel R. Delany
Gavin Selerie, Hariot Double
– By Johanna Drucker
Tracie Morris, handholding: 5 kinds
– By Craig Dworkin
J. H. Prynne, The White Stones
– By Peter Gizzi
Tonya M. Foster, A Swarm of Bees in High Court
– By Erica Hunt
Abdellatif Laâbi, In Praise of Defeat: Selected Poems
– By Pierre Joris
Simone White, Of Being Dispersed
– By Douglas Kearney
Barbara Guest, The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest
– By Kyoo Lee
Sawako Nakayasu, The Ants
– By Tan Lin
Keith Waldrop, Selected Poems
– By Mark McMorris
Édgar J. Ulloa Luján, Move that River to the Sea
– By Tracie Morris
Will Alexander, “Live at the Roosevelt Room,” Detroit, August 24, 2016
– By Julie Patton
Martin Mueller, The Iliad
– By Bob Perelman
Mia You, I, too, Dislike It
– By Lisa Robertson
Cat Painters: An Anthology of Contemporary Serbian Poetry
– By Jerome Rothenberg
Alejandro Miguel Justino Crawford, Egress
– By Danny Snelson
Renee Gladman, Calamities
– By Juliana Spahr
Ted Greenwald, The Age of Reasons & Common Sense
– By Stacy Szymaszek
M. NourbeSe Philip, She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks
– By Elizabeth Willis
Susan Howe, Spontaneous Particulars: The Telepathy of the Archives
– By Mia You

Books

Traces of Humanity
– By John Goldbach
Radical Empathy: A Manifesto for the 21st Century
– By Taney Roniger
Fostering A More Socially-Conscious Narrative Olivia Kate Cerrone with David Winner
Up Against the Wall, Magician
– By Eric Nelson
Florida Records
– By Ashley P. Taylor
What's the Point of Love?: Sarah Gerard with Christine Sang

Music

Five Pieces at the Kitchen Exploring the Space Between 1 and 0
– By Marshall Yarbrough
Five Pieces at the Kitchen The Beautiful and the Good
– By George Grella
Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
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"Attention Online Shoppers..."
– By Scott Beauchamp
The Expansive Harmonium
– By Michael Blair
The Hired Hands: A Tribute to Bruce Langhorne
– By Christopher Nelson
Outtakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
Brooklyn Rail Wintry Mix
– by the Editors

Dance

Divining the Shadows Okwui Okpokwasili’s Poor People’s TV Room
– By Ivan Talijancic
Adding Words to Phrases: the conversation continues between Whelan and Brooks
– By Jen George
A Bicycle is Loved and Lost, Orgasm Found
– By Mike Stinavage and Michael Parmelee
Last Love Letter
– By Nancy Dalva

Film

THEO ANTHONY with Dan Sullivan
Notes from the 2017 True/False Festival
– By Jason Fox
Mapping a History of Activist Real Estate A new online project reveals the hidden history of a pioneering nonprofit
– By Paul Dallas
On Paul Sharits An Excerpt from “I Was a Flawed Modernist”
– By Tony Conrad
Bad Blood, Honest Work Blood on the Mountain
– By Vanessa Thill
Even The Dead Will Not Be Safe Part III of III
– By Madison Brookshire

Theater

A Vivifying Spectacle Target Margin Theater’s Mourning Becomes Electra
– By Amber Reed
Begetting Charleses: Carl Holder
– By Ying Ying Li
Following the Cinematic-Theatric with Sara Farrington
– By Connie Congdon

Fiction

The Perpetually Barking Man in the Best of All Possible Worlds
– by Albert Cossery, translated from the French by Alyson Waters
In Your Element
– By Howie Stier
Neither Madame, Nor Mademoiselle
– by Elise Galmard, translated from the French by Jenessa Abrams
inSerial: part seven Delusions of Being Observed
– By Lewis Warsh
LOST AND FOUND ANIMALS a misplaced bestiary Part 7: Caswell's Inkfan Lizard (polyphonia metamorphica)
– By Sid Gershgoren
an extract from The Fifth Wall
– By Rachel Nagelberg
excerpts from Gnome
– By Robert Lunday
Easter Sunday
– By Tom Daly
New Routes in Fiction A talk with Jonathan Lee
– by Alec Niedenthal

Poetry

Eight
– By Mike Hauser
Six
– By Tony Leuzzi
Four
– By Elaine Kahn
Two
– By Christopher Rey Pérez
from TANKA/ZANKA
– By Sho Sugita
Two
– By Alice Notley
Alyson Hannigan Ordered Me To Be Made
– By Nick Sturm
Winter Writing
– By Brenda Coultas

Verbatim

Ahmed Yacoubi: The Occidental Tourist
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Art Books

Becoming Imperceptible
– By Wendy Tronrud
Ramblings of a Wannabe Painter
– By Alyssa Collura
The Weight of the World
– By Avra Spector
Reading as Art & Publishing as Artistic Practice
– By Megan N. Liberty

Field Notes

Editor's Note
– By Paul Mattick
Nowhere to Go: Automation, Then and Now Part Two
– By Jason E. Smith
Behind the Myths: A Review
– By Peter St. Clair

The Well

Bemelmans Bar
– By Mitchell Kuga

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