But the idea of transformation has always been something that I romanticize in a work. I’m cautious of it but I also need it to connect my thoughts with the process of making. That’s really important.
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Nari Ward
The Slanted Life of Emily Dickinson by Rosanna Bruno
- Rosa Barba by Joan Jonas
- Barbara Kasten by Leslie Hewitt
- Agnieszka Kurant by Sabine Russ
- Soon-Mi Yoo by Paul Dallas
- Alejandro Zambra by Daniel Alarcón
- Tom McCarthy by Frederic Tuten
- Matana Roberts by Christopher Stackhouse
Interviews
- Samara Golden by Kristin Lucas
- Christian Thompson by Sean Lowry
- Kevin Kline and Bruce Schultz by Zachary Lazar
Artists on Artists
- The Slanted Life of Emily Dickinson by Rosanna Bruno
- Four Poems by Rae Armantrout
- Making Tom (Return): Behind the Scenes by Jeffery Renard Allen
- Night Ride by Colin Dickey
- Ravalushan by Mohammed Naseehu Ali
- Masses and Motets: Another Francesca Fruscella Mystery by Jeffrey DeShell
- Line and Light by Jeffrey Yang & Melissa McGill
- From “Without Looking” (After Magritte) by Kimiko Hahn
First Proof
- James Mackay’s Derek Jarman Super 8 by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
- Margaret Morton’s Cities of the Dead: The Ancestral Cemeteries of Kyrgyzstan by Claudia Steinberg
- César Aira’s The Musical Brain: And Other Stories by Ryan Chapman
- Benny and Joshua Safdie’s Heaven Knows What by Sara Driver
- P. Inman’s Written: 1976–2013 by Ian Dreiblatt
- Seth Price’s Folklore U.S. by Ben Fama
- Florentina Holzinger and Vincent Riebeek’s Kein Applaus Für Scheisse by Lauren Bakst
- Renée Green’s Other Planes of There by Thom Donovan
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#Selfie-Reliance, 2014. Images courtesy of the artist.
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Emoji Dickinson, 2014.
My Friend Must Be a Bird, 2014.
Rosanna Bruno is a visual artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She received a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in 2012 in painting and has received Yaddo fellowships in 2012 and 2014. She loves words and she is currently creating a comic book about the ever-fascinating poet, Emily Dickinson.
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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 131,
Spring 2015
Featuring interviews with Rosa Barba, Soon-Mi Yoo, Agnieszka Kurant, Tatiana Bilbao, Alejandro Zambra, Tom McCarthy, Matana Roberts, and Barbara Kasten.
