Monthly Archives: February 2010

FILM CRITICISM

Posted on February 22, 2010 by

Richard Gere in American Gigolo, 1980 DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL: PHALLOCENTRIC ECONOMICS, TRIANGULAR TRADE & OTHER SHADY BUSINESS by Mishana Hosseinioun “All economic organization is homosexual.” — Luce Irigaray Paul Schrader’s erotic thriller, American Gigolo (1980) does much more than simply … Continue reading →

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DORIANNE LAUX

Posted on February 21, 2010 by

Photograph of Dorianne Laux by Ron Salisbury, from the back cover of her first book “Awake” published by BOA Editions, Ltd, 1990. QUARTER TO SIX and the house swept with the colors of dusk, I set the table with plates … Continue reading →

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Sunday Literary Series: Raul Clement

Posted on February 21, 2010 by

 Overpass photograph by David Friedman. Exit Ramp Cowboys and Overpass Indians by Raul Clement When I went to Billy’s trailer, his Dad was in the living room watching some game show on TV. It wasn’t really a living room, … Continue reading →

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: YEHUDA AMICHAI

Posted on February 20, 2010 by

A PITY. WE WERE SUCH A GOOD INVENTION by Yehuda Amichai They amputated your thighs off my hips. As far as I’m concerned they are all surgeons. All of them. They dismantled us each from the other. As far as … Continue reading →

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FRIDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: Haiku

Posted on February 19, 2010 by

by Judson Evans November rain- long ropes of the window washers float in the wind by Anita Virgil Emerging hot and rosy from their skins- beets! by Cor Van Den Heuvel the blues singer tells how bad it is then … Continue reading →

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ART REVIEW

Posted on February 18, 2010 by

Theophilus Brown, untitled work on paper, 1998. Currently on exhibit at the Thomas Reynolds Gallery and previously shown at the Charles Campbell Gallery and the McAllen Art House. LOOKING AT THEOPHILUS BROWN: WHAT THE OTHER IS NOT by Esteban Ortega … Continue reading →

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MINIMA MORALIA, No. 33

Posted on February 17, 2010 by

World War I photograph of American infantrymen on a trench raid carrying sacks of grenades. MINIMA MORALIA: Reflections from the damaged life. By THEODOR ADORNO PART ONE: 1944. Aphorism #33: Far from the firing-line. Translated by Dennis Redmond 33 Far … Continue reading →

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MEMOIR

Posted on February 16, 2010 by

ÉXPO-SEE: A MEMOIR by Mark Van Proyen In the early months of 1983, artist and curator Rolando Castéllon started Éxpo-See magazine: a small, photocopied, eight-page pamphlet that initially functioned as an advertising instrument for Bannam Place Exhibition Space, the underground … Continue reading →

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: HART CRANE

Posted on February 13, 2010 by

NATIONAL WINTER GARDEN by Hart Crane Outspoken buttocks in pink beads Invite the necessary cloudy clinch Of bandy eyes. . . . No extra muffling here: The world’s one flagrant, sweating cinch. And while legs waken salads in the brain … Continue reading →

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FRIDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: Jose Emilio Pacheco

Posted on February 12, 2010 by

High Treason by Jose Emilio Pacheco I do not love my country. Its abstract lustre is beyond my grasp. But (although it sounds bad) I would give my life for ten places in it, for certain people, seaports, pinewoods, fortresses, … Continue reading →

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