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
Sign Language by Jane Kaplowitz
- Djur Djura by David Byrne
- Gregory Crane by Simon Lane
- Lili Taylor by Nicole Burdette
- Paul Beatty by Christian Haye
- Double Portrait of the Artist: A Conversation With Edmund White by Alain Kirili
- Richard Foreman by Eric Bogosian
- Word Into Image by Marjorie Welish
- Suzan-Lori Parks by Han Ong
- Saint Clair Cemin by Shirley Kaneda
- Pedro Almodóvar by Ela Troyano
Interviews
- Footnotes by Klaus Kertess
- Almenrausch by Vivian Heller
- Three Poems by Sophie Cabot Black
- Box Turtle by Mark Solomon
- The Track of Real Desires by Beverly Lowry
- In Love With Me by Padgett Powell
First Proof
- Untitled Drawing by Christian Schumann
- Untitled Drawing (for BOMB magazine) by Eva Lundsager
- Untitled by Glenn Ligon
- Sign Language by Jane Kaplowitz
- Wild Girls in BOMB (none are dead, just knocked out) by Kim Dingle
- Untitled Drawings by Roland Flexner
- Dedication to Stanley Moss by Betsy Sussler
More
Jane Kaplowitz, Sign Language, 1994, India Ink, 17 × 14 inches each drawing. Courtesy of Jason McCoy Gallery.
Related
Pattern and instructions for a “wall tattoo,” titled Double-Num Wall Tattoo, by Gretchen Faust.
Renee Gladman is the author of ten works of prose and poetry, most recently Calamities, a collection of essay-fictions. Her first monograph of drawings, Prose Architectures, was published by Wave Books in 2017. She lives in New England with the poet-ceremonialist Danielle Vogel.
Originally published in
BOMB 47,
Spring 1994
Featuring interviews with Pedro Almodovar, Lily Taylor, Suzan-Lori Parks, Gregory Crane, Saint Clair Cemin, Paul Beatty, Martha Rosler, Djur Djura, Nancy Spero, Richard Foreman, Robert Barry, and Edmund White.
