Books in Brief | Friday Pick
The Blind Man: Dada’s New York Incarnation | Friday Pick
These are innovative intellects poking fun at convention and making timeless art while they're at it. What a refreshing project and publication.
Re: Word: Daniil Kharms
Anton Mikhailovich spat, said “yuck,” spat again, said “yuck” again, spat again, said “yuck” again, and closed the door. To hell with him. Let me tell about Ilya Pavlovich.
Tomaž Šalamun
My great-grandmother milled an old man / and swallowed him. -- two new poems by Tomaž Šalamun
Kristen Kosmas – Part 5
Between all things / that appear to be touching, / that appear to touch, / there is still space.
Kristen Kosmas – Part 4
All of the electricity in the city goes out at this point and there is a kind of mild panic.
Kristen Kosmas Interviewed by Sibyl Kempson
"Well when you’re having that experience of profound uncertainty, it’s sort of like -- anything! Somebody gimme a magazine about anything! I’ll believe it!"
Daniil Kharms
Because of me, Marina Petrovna turned completely bald – bald like a baby’s bottom. It happened like this: I went over to visit Marina Petrovna, and bang! she lost all her hair. And that was that.