David Breskin explains why the ghazal works to accompany Ed Ruscha’s art and Nels Cline’s music. “In the end, I felt that I was writing while wearing the world’s most luxurious set of fur-lined handcuffs.”

Opening Out: DIRTY BABY, Part 1
“I want these books to open out instead of close down. I’ve got a library full of what I consider fantastic, successful art books, but the main modality of art books tends to be forensic. The art’s put on the table and it’s examined, and the experts come in and they tell you about it. They tell you what made the thing, brought it to life, who the parents were, what ultimately killed it.”

Peruvian Vanguardist + Picasso
Though he eventually traded in his work as poet for a life of Marxist activism, Carlos Oquendo de Amat did publish one significant collection, written during from age 18 to 20, Five Meters of Poems. David Shook reviews that collection together with Picasso by Picasso.

The Pale Dance: Two Types of Kittens
Geoff Gossett reviews Martin Eder’s The Pale Dance, from Prestel: watercolor portraits of naked women and kittens by a German master.

Weekend Gems
Short reviews of new translations of Vicente Huidobro and new portraits of Black lesbians by Zanele Muholi.

Recommended Fine Arts
Fine art recommendations from Molossus, including work by or about Marina Abramović, Jennifer Steinkamp, David King, and Ed Ruscha.

Around the World with Prestel
Ai Weiwei: So Sorry, Mark Siemons & Ai Weiwei (Prestel) €19.95 Ai Weiwei is almost as prolific a blogger as he is an artist. On Twitter hundreds of immitators use variations of his name as their monikers, making it almost impossible for the government—or even Weiwei’s own admirers—to find the man himself. His routine criticism [...]

Art from Cuba & Conversation from Cuban America
Despite the redundancy that labels its writers—though I do acknowledge that there are no current improvements—del Rio’s interviews offer a worthwhile exploration of culture and language in our contemporary literature.

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The Literature of Justice
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The Black Olive Tree and Other Memories
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Offerings to the God of Attention: Recent Literary Events in Bali and Australia
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World Prose Portfolio #7: Dennis Walder
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Burning Deck: Introducing an Appreciation
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