The black figure has always been a subject of entertainment in popular culture, as well as an image to sell things. In some ways, that’s how people relate to us—because they’ve seen us on television.
—
Derrick Adams
S.O.F by Roberto Vargas
- Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn by David Seidner
- Dario Fo by Matthew Fleury
- Raymond Voinquel by Samia Saouma
- Bruce Weber by Rosemary Carroll
- Cindy Sherman by Betsy Sussler
Interviews
- S.O.F by Roberto Vargas
- Bluefields by María Gallo
- A Star Is Needed To Get To Heaven by César Young Nuñez
- Momotombo by Charles Tarzian
- A Note To The Readers (More Pleasure Than Work) by Joseph Kosuth
- Contra-Dictions by Roland Legiardi-Laura
- Remembrance And Elegy For A Sailor by Claudia Lars
- Smoke Defines Light: A Fiction with Tarot Readings by Jane Nelson by Craig Gholson
- If Faust Had Been My Daughter by Shelley Berc
- Two Stories by Victor Montejo
- At War by Victoria Redel
- Two Poems by Francisco Arteaga
- El Chupadero by Zoë Anglesey
- The Front by Gina María Caruso
- Two Poems by Isabel de los Ángeles Ruano
- Notes for a Love Story that Never Was by Jacinta Escudos
- The Lilac with Mastering Odor by Jeanne Larson
- Elegy by José Luis Quesada
- Three Poems by Alejandro Bravo
- Seizure by Kimiko Hahn
- Haunted Houses by Lynne Tillman
- Three Poems by Alexis Ramírez
- Pamphlet by Alfonso Quijada Urías
- Il 4 luglio, 1924 by Marguerite Feitlowitz
- Two Poems by Mauricio Marquina
- The Moment of Passion by Ana Istarú
- 1954 by Arturo Arias
- If Death … by Miguel Huezo Mixco
- Talking To Himself by Benjamín Ramón
- The Chief by Quince Duncan
- If I Were May by Carlos Rigby
- Two Poems by Reyes Gilberto Arévalo
- A Possible Account by Rigoberto Paredes
- Two Poems by Roberto Obregon
First Proof
- Three Photographs by Deborah Turbeville
- Revenge of the Nerds by Gretchen Bender
- Gene Meatyard by Guy Mendes
- Cowboy Hat (autoportrait from A.H. Series) by Jimmy DeSana
- Untitled (Falling Woman) by Louis Renzoni
- Equation for Mettropposttersizer by Rammellzee
- Untitled Photograph by Sarah Wells
- HAI DUC by Troy Tecau
- Social Studies by William Coupon
- Girl Observing the Moon by Armando Morales
- Two Photographs by Erwin Blumenfeld
- Two Photographs by David Seidner
More
Soldiers of “Fortune”
Never believe magazine
commanders pandering a fat
cheque or stripe
a star or headline
2 glorious weeks in the
mountains of Central America
her womb her fury
will never appear in your
obituary fulfillment
nor serve as compensation
for P.T.S.D. Only real touch
real love would assuage
that agent of orange
A real sex a real mouth
can echo your patriotic needs
learn the discipline of
dying
and love again
Translated from the Spanish by Charles Tarzian.
Roberto Vargas is the Cultural Attache for the Nicaraguan Embassy in Washington.
Originally published in
BOMB 12,
Spring 1985
Cindy Sherman, Dario Fo, Bruce Weber, Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn, and Raymond Voinquel.
