It brought about Kilimnik and Doig, right? But I don't mean this to be just an addition to Mark's righteous condemnation of the consensoriat (though the notion of "the return of beauty" may have had something to do with its rise).
I've been fretting for a while about how to introduce myself on this blog (hi! I'm the new guy!), until I decided that, if I kept going that way, I would never post a thing. So I'll skip the intro for now, and go on to my very first post.
A couple of months ago I found at a Red Cross book sale (for $1.50!) a copy of the 1952 Larousse; it's a book I was very familiar with, as I grew up with possibly a slightly later edition of it, but in any case one that looked almost indistinguishable from this one, owned by my grandparents (Francophiles like all good middle-class Romanians of their generation), in 1970's Bucharest. The moment I picked it up, the book--the texture of its cloth cover under my fingertips, its heft in my hands, the layout of its pages--felt so familiar as to bring about an unmistakably Proustian moment.
The Basel Miami Fair(s) covered from head to toe by Joanne Mattera. Almost all of ‘em. Mattera, a painter, does an excellent job. Check out her comments and images. at the Joanne Mattera Art Blog.
very sad news - joel dorn has got his hat - the masked announcer checked out this past monday
New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl said in a recent speech given there, that Chicago is a “receptor city.”
Elisa Gabbert holds degrees from Rice University and Emerson College . She currently lives in Boston and is an editor of Absent. Recent work can be found in Pleiades, Meridian, Cannibal, and LIT. Her chapbook, Thanks for Sending the Engine, is available from Kitchen Press. That Tiny Insane Voluptuousness , a book of poems written with Kathleen Rooney, is forthcoming from Otoliths Books.
