A Review of Katie Ford’s Colosseum
Cate Whetzel reviews Katie Ford's "Colosseum," a book of poems that "record [the] anxiety, trauma, and stunned sense of coping" of "the loss of New Orleans" and "the destruction and devastation of the...
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I have one goal as an artist: not to sit on my ass. For me, art is action in all of its variety of forms. Performance artists, then, should be pushing the boundaries of action, daring to engage with...
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The tangles of anxiety are knotted from generation to generation, rooted in place, and may just be the ties that bind.
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A Review of Katie Ford’s Colosseum
Katie Ford, Colosseum (Saint Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 2008), 60 pages, $15.00 paper. Click here to buy Colosseum from Amazon.com and support The Other Journal. When the lights go down in Colosseum,...
View ArticleAnxieties of Influence: Performance Art, Celebrity, and the Self
I have one goal as an artist: not to sit on my ass. For me, art is action in all of its variety of forms. Performance artists, then, should be pushing the boundaries of action, daring to engage with...
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My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call. —Pat Conroy, Prince of Tides There is a spot on the downslope of Colima Road in Hacienda Heights, in southern California, where, if...
View ArticleWaiting
Time as we experience it is by definition a denial of instantaneousness, a requirement to wait.—Alan Lewis At one thirty on a Tuesday afternoon ten days from now, I will fall asleep. Fall is perhaps...
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