On The Grandfather of Pop Art: An Interview with Diane Kirkpatrick
It’s true that he wanted to be inside and outside the art world at the same time, but he was on public performance whenever he was out.
It’s true that he wanted to be inside and outside the art world at the same time, but he was on public performance whenever he was out.
Hit play below to hear Jacques J. Rancourt read his poem “Backyard Rock” and scroll down for the full text. “Backyard Rock“ is featured in MQR’s Winter 2021 Issue. Backyard Rock It’s 1999, the year I learned to float by filling my body with questions. Swimming at night with my father was the first time since the fog …
Perillo is one of the great practitioners of what the Russian Formalist critic Viktor Shklovskii termed ostranenie, “enstrangement.” Under her pen, figuration becomes a way to capture both the immediacy and the oddity of the body one can neither master nor escape.
“Writers long for a new sense of form though they may never know
what it is. The real is released from its concept, light releases day
as a fawn steps over the floor of the world till some of the spots
look spilled…”
Like the poem’s subject, “Currency” lulls the reader into a false sense of comfort.