Poetry
For Beth Ward
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Paul KillebrewPaul Killebrew was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, where he currently works for a judge.
RECOMMENDED ARTICLES
Beyond Metaphor: On Prose by Chris Campanioni & Elizabeth Powell
By Kristina Marie DarlingMAR 2019 | Books
In his book The Dialogic Imagination, M. M. Bakhtin observes that “the poetic symbol presupposes the unity of a voice with which it is identical, and presupposes that such a voice is completely alone within its own discourse.
MELATI SURYODARMO with George Kan
FEB 2020 | Dance
The superstar performance artist, Melati Suryodarmo, returns to New York next month to perform Eins und Eins (2016) at The Armory Show. The piece uses the human body as a metaphor for a nation’s health and involves the spewing of black ink. Having been trained by Marina Abramović and Anzu Furukawa, Suryodarmo combines butoh practices with western performance art, merging her Indonesian origins with her time in Germany.
BARRY FLANAGAN:
The Hare is Metaphor
By Tom McGlynn
JUNE 2018 | ArtSeen
The question of poise comes up in different ways when viewing Barry Flanagan’s survey at Paul Kasmin Gallery: Strictly sculptural poise (from the ground to the plinth) but also conceptual poise, the balancing act that an artist needs to sometime effect to get their point across.
Falling Asleep
An Essay by Richard HellDEC 19-JAN 20 | LastWords
I dropped out of high school to be a poet, so I needed to try to teach myself, by reading and writing, how to write. My first big insight was that poetry is metaphor (is that a metaphor?), in metaphor’s broadest sense—the evocation of something by invoking something else. Life is a dream, or death as sleep, and “even your shoulders are petty crimes” or “the hum-colored cabs.” Do those last two count as a metaphors?
