I find the idea that we write alone laughable, even egotistical. Poetry is a palimpsest that has been endlessly rewritten—it’s a social space we share with others.
—
Jen Bervin
Drawing by Louise Bourgeois
- Roland Joffé by Thomas Bird
- Gretchen Bender by Cindy Sherman
- Charles Henri Ford by Bruce Wolmer
- Martin Amis by Patrick McGrath
Interviews
- Three Poems by Sunil Gangopadhyay
- Opening Pages by Charles Henri Ford
- Four Poems by Alice Rose George
- Five Poems by Ashok Vajpeyi
- To the Consciousness of a Shooting Star by David Rattray & Gérard Charrière
- Merry Christmas, Dr. Title by Eileen Myles
- Endless Lunch by Gary Indiana
- Two Poems by Kedarnath Singh
- Song of the Earth by M. Gopalakrishna Adiga
- X≠Y by Susan Daitch
First Proof
- Two Works by Dona Nelson
- Two Photographs by Ellen Carey
- Three Works by Gary Stephan
- Two Paintings by Stephen Ellis
- Three Paintings by Izhar Patkin
- Selected Similarities: Notes and Drawings by Roberto Juarez
- Stomach by Kiki Smith
- Long Rain by Roberto Juarez
- Angst by John Wells
- Two Works by Lucio Pozzi
- Saning Sari by Marilyn Lerner
- Two Photographs by Annette Lemieux
- Monday Morning Early by Peter Nadin
- Two Works by Saint Clair Cemin
- Drawing by Robert Gober
- Drawing by Louise Bourgeois
- Untitled by James Wright
- Untitled Cardboard Drawing by Daniel Mahoney
- #7, St. Barts by Brice Marden
- Untitled by Robert Smithson
- Determined Girl Holds up the Igloo House by Rhonda Wall
- Riverside Drive 110th St. by Alice Neel
- Untitled by Curtis Lee Fairley
More
Louise Bourgeois, Untitled, 1947, grey-blue ink on paper, 10⅝ × 8¼ inches. Courtesy Robert Miller Gallery.
Related
Sanded, ink on paper work of a figure holding onto a galloping horse, Black Slipping by Peter Drake.
“It’s so important to make your own little specks of peace around you. It’s a matter of being an idiot.”
Originally published in
BOMB 18,
Winter 1987
Martin Amis, Gretchen Bender by Cindy Sherman, Charles Henri Ford, and Roland Joffé.
