Where on the spectrum of loyalty and betrayal does song begin? And where does it end? I think each writer has to decide this over and over.
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Sharon Olds
BOMB Specific: Jungle Fever by Pascale Marthine Tayou
- Vince Staples by Simone White
- Wadada Leo Smith by John Corbett
- Patricia Treib by Joe Fyfe
- Dmitry Krymov by John Freedman
- Jesse Ball & Catherine Lacey
- Lee Clay Johnson by Jay Varner
- Jason Simon by Claire Pentecost
- Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun by Ammiel Alcalay
Interviews
- Malcolm Lowry in the Supermarket by Daniel Saldaña París
- Hog for Sorrow by Leopoldine Core
- Two Poems by John Yau
- Carver & Cobain by David Means
- Four Poems by Mary Jo Bang
- Three Poems by Peter Gizzi
- Portfolio by Steel Stillman
First Proof
- David Brody by Elliott Green
- Frederick Terna by Stephen Westfall
- Brandan “Bmike” Odums by Zachary Lazar
- Rebecca Smith by John Newman
Artists on Artists
- Two Books by C.D. Wright by Ariana Reines
- Institutional Collusion: Merlin Carpenter and Cologne’s “Non-Productive Attitude” by David Everitt Howe
- Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Really by Ratik Asokan
- Alice Birch’s Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. by Amber Power
- Javier Téllez’s To Have Done with the Judgment of God by Silvia Benedetti
- Ross Lipman’s Notfilm by Liza Béar
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Pacale Marthine Tayou is a Cameroonian artist based in Belgium. His work has appeared in documenta11 (2002) in Kassel, two Venice Biennales (2005 and 2009), and numerous international exhibitions. Recent solo exhibitions took place at the Serpentine Galleries, London, and Fowler Museum, Los Angeles, both in 2015.
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Originally published in
BOMB 136,
Summer 2016
Featuring interviews with Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, Wadada Leo Smith, Dmitry Krymov, Patricia Treib, Lee Clay Johnson, Jesse Ball, Catherine Lacey, Jason Simon, and Vince Staples.
