Like many writers, I feel centered when I write, or it might be better to say, when I don’t write, when I can’t write for whatever reason, I feel, frankly, de-stabilized. It’s dangerous for me not to write.
—
Sigrid Nunez
Two Paintings by Carl Palazzolo
- Angela Carter by Rosemary Carroll
- Joan Mitchell by Cora Cohen & Betsy Sussler
- Rodion Zaveriyayev by Dmitri Volchek
- Spalding Gray by Karry Kammer
Interviews
- Ostranenia by Alison Armstrong
- Three Poems by Arkadii Dragomoshchenko
- Two Poems by Dmitri Volchek
- Two Poems by Elena Shvarts
- Idée Fixe by Gary Indiana
- A History of the World by Hal Foster
- Living (1983–85) by Lyn Hejinian
- Two Poems by Ruth Danon
- The $200, or Shit on Heroin by Terence Sellers
- Three Poems by Viktor Krivulin
First Proof
- Two Paintings by Unknown Artists
- Two Photographs by Barbara Ess
- Untitled by Sergei Bugayev
- Two Paintings by Bill Komoski
- Three Photographs by Boris Smelov
- Two Paintings by Cora Cohen
- Two Paintings by Carl Palazzolo
- Vienna by Christoph Scharff
- Two Paintings by Donald McLaughlin
- Three Photographs by Jacki Ochs
- Leningrad by Jacki Ochs & Lyn Hejinian
- Untitled Painting by Oleg Kotelnikov
- Two Drawings by Louise Fishman
- Two Paintings by Mary Heilmann
- Paradise by Michael Young
- Untitled Painting by Michael Zwack
- Two Works by Rebecca Purdum
- Falling Moon by Stephanie Sanchez
- Two Paintings by Stephen Mueller
- Two Drawings by Terry Winters
More
Carl Palazzolo, Viewed by night, viewed by day, 1986, mixed media on canvas and burlap, 90 × 1120 inches. Courtesy of Bette Stoler Gallery.
Carl Palazzolo, “Robinhood Water” (#20), August 1986, Robinhood, Maine, watercolor, 14½ × 15 inches. Courtesy of Bette Stoler Gallery.
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Originally published in
BOMB 17,
Fall 1986
Spalding Gray, Angela Carter, Rodion Zaveriyayev, and Joan Mitchell.
