Blake Butler lives in Atlanta. His most recent works are the novel There Is No Year and the nonfiction Nothing: A Portrait of Insomnia, both from Harper Perennial in 2012. He edits the litblog HTMLGIANT and reports weekly on books and literature for Vice Magazine.
In a career spanning over two decades, Wayne Koestenbaum has copped to a lot.
Elementary Poetry No. 1 is the first in a series of short artist books that the Russian poet, artist, and theorist Andrei Monastyrski (b. 1949) produced in quick succession in the spring of 1975 by drawing on typewritten pages with pen.
The condition of most of our lives is that of continuous flight, in some manner or form—flight from faulty logic, from place of birth to the place we alight, from situations that no longer serve us, from political precarity—flight, as in rupture.
How do I build a fugitive choreography, one that’s always in the process of escaping itself, then coming back to reaffirm itself, only to slide away again? The act of interpreting a choreography is made live by the performers, which is the invitation in my work.
Ligia Lewis
