So, what rocked my world? The remarkable power of ‘naming.’ MOEZ SURANI‘s book-length poem ةيلمع Operación Opération Operation 行 动 Oперация (BookThug, 2016), lists the code names for UN miltary interventions from 1945 to present that could easily be mistaken for the titles of children’s picture books. At once absurdly funny and utterly grotesque, the […]
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Poet, ANNA MOSCHOVAKIS, live and in colour, last night @ knife | fork | book Thanks to all who had the good fortune to attend. Photos: KIRBY UPCOMING: 11/02 JONATHAN GARFINKEL 11/03 KILBY SMITH MCGREGOR + ROXANNA BENNETT
You have your axes What, precisely, is your procedure? from [The challenge: to start] by Anna Moschovakis They and We Will Get into Trouble for This opens with the line, “I don’t know a thing about paradise,” an opening gesture that tempers faux curiosity as much as it disavows the setting of paradise. It is also […]
“…think of it as a turbulence machine.” —Mónica de la Torre “Anna Moschovakis is a great abstract poet in the sense that she explores how formal procedures and found vocabularies and grammatical structures delimit what we can express at a given historical moment. But what makes her an indispensable writer is how she is able—and through […]
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