April 2016
The “April 2016” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on April 6, 2016.
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
Critics Page
Looking Into the Darkness of One's Time
– By Anne WaldmanRhizome of Poets
– By Alystyre JulianAfter Rilke
– By Bernadette MayerA Winsome Pinnock
– By Lisa JarnotNotebook, 1981
– By Eileen Mylesas if your life depends on it
– By Evie ShockleyHow We Cause the Universe to Exist
– By Alice NotleyHolland Tunnel
– By Emily SkillingsCorpses, Arts and Dreams Of
An Excerpt– By Poupeh MissaghiLa Peira | (The Stone)
–LOST AND FOUND
Excerpts from Murderers Criminals Join Sunlight– By Kathy AckerLOST AND FOUND
Dharma Committee Rules– By Joanne KygerLOST AND FOUND
Barcelona, 19361– By Muriel RukeyserLOST AND FOUND
I. The Boat is Tethered to the Floor– By Helene JohnsonSong for the Deadbeat
– By Laura HintonLand Art
– By Jennifer FoersterExcerpt from "Contes d'une tête tranchée" in Blessures au vent
–Ugly Duckling Presse
UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE
Stop– By Jennifer NelsonUGLY DUCKLING PRESSE
i. Preface, Part I of Love, Delight, and Alarm– By Karen WeiserUGLY DUCKLING PRESSE with Anne Waldman
DAVID HINTON
Premonition of Barrel Bombs (Syria)
– By Sterrett SmithGood Stock
– By Dawn Lundy MartinDAWN LUNDY MARTIN with Anne Waldman
Infrastructure Poetics
STACY SZYMASZEK with Anne WaldmanExcerpt from A Year from Today
– By Stacy SzymaszekFriday March 25 at 4 pm
– By Etel AdnanOracle, or, Utopia
– By Eleni SikelianosDixie Don't Shoot
– By Kristin PrevalletNEW YORK STREETS: 2013 - 2015
Cement Resistance, Fume through a Vacuum– By No LandDrawings from Markets in (New) Delhi
– By Miriam GrossTo Err on the Side of Peace
– By Allison Adelle Hedge CokeDead Horse Watch
– By Allison Adelle Hedge CokeALLISON ADELLE HEDGE COKE with Anne Waldman
Shall We Cut The Cake
– By Anne CarsonVIVIEN BITTENCOURT with Vincent Katz
ALEXIS MYRE Power of Limits
– By Amy MattererALEXIS MYRE with Anne Waldman
Use Alternate Route
– By Alan GilbertHOMAGES TO LEROI JONES
Excerpt from Diary– By Kathy AckerHOMAGE TO LEROI JONES
Dream– By Joanne KygerHOMAGE TO LEROI JONES
[John Wieners to Joanne Kyger]HOMAGE TO LEROI JONES
Poem from John W. [to Joanne Kyger]
September, 1972– By John WienersHOMAGE TO LEROI JONES
For O.B.– By Muriel RukeyserRachida Madani
THOMAS SAYERS ELLIS with Anne Waldman
(January 2016)Diaries of an Artist
The Art and Writing of Rosemary Mayer– By Marie Warsh and Gillian SneedChampion Flowers
– By Emily Skillings
Art
JACOB COLLINS with MARY ANN CAWS: Thinking About Ateliers
– By Mary Ann CawsJOHN HOUCK with Charlie Schultz
HILTON ALS with Jarrett Earnest
ANDREA FRASER with Thyrza Nichols Goodeve
BARKLEY L. HENDRICKS with Laila Pedro
BILL CONLON with Barbara Rose
BETTY WOODMAN with Phong Bui
“I’ll take a picture of you, do you want to hide behind the code?”
Michael Riedel and Jarrett Earnest at the American Museum of Natural History
– By Jarrett EarnestNANCY DAVIDSON with Ashley McNelis
ArtSeen
Nora Griffin: Modern Love
– By Darragh McNicholasMARCEL BROODTHAERS A Retrospective
– By Tom McGlynnJULIANA CERQUEIRA LEITE: INTRANSITIVE
– By Phillip GriffithJEAN SHIN Surface Tension
– By Jonathan GoodmanLate Medieval Panel Paintings II: Materials, Methods, Meanings
– By David CarrierMOLLY LOWE Redwood
– By Samuel FeldblumCHELSEA CULPRIT Blessed With a Job
– By Ashton CooperGABRIEL LIMA life, vest ; coffee, tray
– By Joyce BeckensteinSOUNDING THE NEW
CARRIE MOYER Sirens– By Clarity HaynesTAMARA JOHNSON No Your Boundaries
– By Kate HardingMunch and Expressionism
– By Hovey BrockTIM HAWKINSON Counterclockwise
– By Jessica HolmesKAREN KILIMNIK
– By Jessica Caroline HolburnBERLINDE DE BRUYCKERE No Life Lost
– By Sarah GoffsteinSUZANNE MCCLELLAND Articulate Muscle 1976
– By Terence TrouillotMEL BOCHNER AND ALIGHIERO BOETTI Verba Volant Scripta Manent
– By Kara L. RooneyHERMENEUTICS OF EVERYTHING
MARK GREENWOLD The Rumble of Panic Underlying Everything– By Phong H. BuiNICKY NODJOUMI You and Me
– By Yasi AlipourTHE LADY IS A TRAMP Vigée Le Brun
– By Adele TutterTruth in the Visual Arts
Skepticism in the Work of Ellen K. Levy and Patricia Olynyk– By William CorwinTorkwase Dyson: Unkeeping
– By Alexandra FowleCARL BOUTARD Life is Elsewhere
– By Jonathan GoodmanTHOMAS NOZKOWSKI Works on Paper
– By Margaret Graham"I'll Stick With Exactly What I Said."
Slavs and Tatars Mirrors for Princes– By ANTHONY HAWLEYMARTIN PURYEAR Multiple Dimensions
– By Kate LiebmanMARYAM JAFRI Economy Corner
– By Tom McGlynn
Books
A Pill for the Heart
– By Taney RonigerThe Imponderable Bloom
– By Dustin IllingworthEscape from American Noise
– By John DominiDon't Think
– By Ryan KrullCHRIS BACHELDER with Weston Cutter
The Art of Stepping Away from the Internet
– By Gretchen SchmidNo Judgments
– By J.T. PriceThe Suicide of Claire Bishop
– By David JoinerAbandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here
– By Yvonne C. GarrettThis Great Violence
– By Simona BlatThe Curiosity of the Long Distance Runner
– By Aditi Sriram
Music
Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
Masters of Their Own Reality
– By George GrellaShapeshifter Star
– By Yvonne JurisThe Amateur Sound: nonkeen
– By Marshall YarbroughOuttakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
Dance
A Slippery and Elusive Quality
– By Erica GettoNotes on PLASTIC
– By Stormy Budwig
Film
Girl’s Best Friend: Alexander Chee and The Earrings of Madame de...
– By Brittany StiglerROSS LIPMAN with Tanya Goldman
PEMA TSEDEN with Lu Yangqiao
Planetarium of Blended Dreams
BEN COONLEY Moonley– By Felix BernsteinOn John Latham's Films
– By Nathan DunneRadu Jude's Aferim! and the Politics of Distance
– By Mihai-Dan Cirjan
Theater
Tragedy in Spades: A Crime Documentary
TELE-VIOLET's Reenactment Ceremony– By Roger BabbThe Play, Space, and Grace of Antlia Pneumatica
ANNE WASHBURN with Peggy StaffordFor This Moment I Would Give My Whole Life!
Robert Lyons and Kristin Marting's Idiot– By Erin CourtneyGetting Graphic with finkle: U R ★
– By Trista BaldwinFeeding the Lake: Charlotte Miller’s Ugly Little Sister at Strasberg
– By Michael Padden
Fiction
Sandy Cinderella
A Scene from Daily Life in al-Najaf, Iraq–A False Accounting
– By Tan LinMasters of Despair
– By Anna MocklerThe Joyous Science, Part 1
The True Story of the Famous Bruce, Composed in Verse from the Accounts of Several Eyewitnesses–from Kid Coole
– By M. G. StephensLes Halles, Belly Of Paris
from Paris Vagabond by Jean-Paul Clebert–Guy
– By Tom Motley
Poetry
Excerpt from Voice's Daughter of a Heart Yet To Be Born
– By Anne WaldmanFive
– By Edwin TorresTwo
– By Nina PuroFive
– By Todd Colby
Art Books
On a Universal Serial Bus
– By Madeline Weisburg
Field Notes
Editor's Note
– By Paul MattickBREXIT
A New Crisis Acronym– By Tony NorfieldLet Us Be Terrible:
Considerations on the Jacobin Club– By Jason E. SmithAn exchange on the perspectives for the world economy
– By Jose A. Tapia