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
Polaroids by Mark Magill
- Jacki Ochs’s The Secret Agent by Betsy Sussler
- Sonia Delaunay by David Seidner
- Philippe Demontaut’s Jean Maurice Isn’t Home Yet by Marie-Guy Baron
- Men Looking at Other Men by Jim Jarmusch, Lindzee Smith & Tim Burns
- ABC No Rio by Shelley Leavitt
- Women Looking at Other Women by Karyn Kay & Bette Gordon
- Charles Ludlam and Christopher Scott by Ted Castle
- Gary Indiana by Max Blagg
- Michael Smith by Rosemary Hochschild
Interviews
- Race in Space by Glenn O'Brien
- Cinematography by Johanna Heer
- E, the Undertaker by Burt Barr
- Metropolis by Christian Marazzi
- Heroin Boys by Jeff Goldberg & Doug Latimer
- Schlegel on Wit by Duncan Smith
- Oblique Meditations on Murder by Matthew Fleury
- Difficulty Swallowing: A Medical Chronicle by Matthew Geller
- Art at Auction by Walter Robinson
- Rainer by Terence Sellers
- Brenda Losing/Valerie Losing 2 by Cookie Mueller
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Polaroids. All images by Mark Magill.
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Originally published in
BOMB 2,
Winter 1982
Tim Burns & Jim Jarmusch, No Rio, Charles Ludlam & Christopher Scott, Jacki Ochs, Michael Smith, Mirielle Cervenka, Gary Indiana, Sonia Delauney, and Phillipe Demontaut.
