April 2017
The “April 2017” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on March 31, 2017.
Co-Founder's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
Critics Page
Reviews of relatively recent works of poetry and poetics, mostly by poets.
–Philippe Soupault, Lost Profiles: Memoirs of Cubism, Dada, and Surrealism
– By Paul AusterAndrew Dodds, I, Sparkie
– By Derek BeaulieuErín Moure, My Beloved Wager: Essays from a Writing Practice
– By Caroline BergvallDaniil Kharms, Russian Absurd: Selected Writings
– By Charles BernsteinMoez Surani, ةيلمع Operación Opération Operation 行 动 Oперация
– By Christian BökTom Raworth, As When
– By Miles ChampionDavid Antin, i never knew what time it was
– By Cecilia CorriganAdam Fitzgerald, George Washington: Poems
– By Samuel R. DelanyGavin Selerie, Hariot Double
– By Johanna DruckerTracie Morris, handholding: 5 kinds
– By Craig DworkinJ. H. Prynne, The White Stones
– By Peter GizziTonya M. Foster, A Swarm of Bees in High Court
– By Erica HuntAbdellatif Laâbi, In Praise of Defeat: Selected Poems
– By Pierre JorisSimone White, Of Being Dispersed
– By Douglas KearneyBarbara Guest, The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest
– By Kyoo LeeSawako Nakayasu, The Ants
– By Tan LinKeith Waldrop, Selected Poems
– By Mark McMorrisÉdgar J. Ulloa Luján, Move that River to the Sea
– By Tracie MorrisWill Alexander, “Live at the Roosevelt Room,” Detroit, August 24, 2016
– By Julie Ezelle PattonMartin Mueller, The Iliad
– By Bob PerelmanMia You, I, too, Dislike It
– By Lisa RobertsonCat Painters: An Anthology of Contemporary Serbian Poetry
– By Jerome RothenbergAlejandro Miguel Justino Crawford, Egress
– By Danny SnelsonRenee Gladman, Calamities
– By Juliana SpahrTed Greenwald, The Age of Reasons & Common Sense
– By Stacy SzymaszekM. NourbeSe Philip, She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks
– By Elizabeth WillisSusan Howe, Spontaneous Particulars: The Telepathy of the Archives
– By Mia You
ArtSeen
Aleksandar Duravcevic: Steppenwolf
– By Alexandra FowleThreads of Fire and Water and Gold
– By Laila PedroThe Power of Suggestion: Rhonda Wheatley
– By William CorwinRomare Bearden: Bayou Fever and Related Works
– By Jessica HolmesSputterances, organized by Sanya Kantarovsky
– By Stephen TruaxDoug Wheeler: PSAD Synthetic Desert III
– By Hannah Sage KayVanishing Points, curated by Andrianna Campbell
– By Tim BarryA World of Emotions: Ancient Greece, 700 BC - 200 AD
– By Sara ChristophNina Chanel Abney Royal Flush
– By Samuel FeldblumAl Taylor Early Paintings
– By Tom McGlynnTurner’s Modern and Ancient Ports: Passages Through Time
– By Joyce BeckensteinSue Williams
– By Jessica HolmesAlexei Jawlensky
– By Jason RosenfeldRene Ricard: So, Who Left Who?
– By Charles SchultzPaul Chan Rhi Anima
– By Ian CofréMarsden Hartley’s Maine
– By Noah DillonSimone Fattal
– By Phillip GriffithMerce Cunningham Common Time
– By Elliot Josephine Leila ReichertA Whole Culture:
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston's 2017 Foster Prize– By Leah HarringtonTattooed New York
– By Hovey BrockEJ Hauser ME + YOU
– By Stephen TruaxJOS DE GRUYTER and HARALD THYS Xanax Film Festival
– By Erin SweenyThe Garden of Eden
– By Phong H. BuiSANDRO CHIA
– By Jonathan Goodman
Books
Traces of Humanity
– By John GoldbachUp Against the Wall, Magician
– By Eric NelsonRadical Empathy: A Manifesto for the 21st Century
– By Taney RonigerFlorida Records
– By Ashley P. TaylorFostering A More Socially-Conscious Narrative
Olivia Kate Cerrone with David WinnerWhat's the Point of Love?: Sarah Gerard with Christine Sang
Music
Five Pieces at the Kitchen
Exploring the Space Between 1 and 0– By Marshall YarbroughFive Pieces at the Kitchen
The Beautiful and the Good– By George GrellaBrooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
"Attention Online Shoppers..."
– By Scott BeauchampThe Expansive Harmonium
– By Michael BlairThe Hired Hands: A Tribute to Bruce Langhorne
– By Christopher NelsonOuttakes
– By Steve DalachinskyBrooklyn Rail Wintry Mix
Dance
Divining the Shadows
Okwui Okpokwasili’s Poor People’s TV Room– By Ivan TalijancicAdding Words to Phrases:
the conversation continues between Whelan and Brooks– By Jen GeorgeA Bicycle is Loved and Lost, Orgasm Found
– By Mike Stinavage and Michael ParmeleeLast Love Letter
– By Nancy Dalva
Film
THEO ANTHONY with Dan Sullivan
Notes from the 2017 True/False Festival
– By Jason FoxMapping a History of Activist Real Estate
A new online project reveals the hidden history of a pioneering nonprofit– By Paul DallasOn Paul Sharits
An Excerpt from “I Was a Flawed Modernist”– By Tony ConradBad Blood, Honest Work
Blood on the Mountain– By Vanessa ThillEven The Dead Will Not Be Safe
Part III of III– By Madison Brookshire
Theater
A Vivifying Spectacle
Target Margin Theater’s Mourning Becomes Electra– By Amber ReedBegetting Charleses: Carl Holder
– By Ying Ying LiFollowing the Cinematic-Theatric
with Sara Farrington– By Connie Congdon
Fiction
The Perpetually Barking Man in the Best of All Possible Worlds
–In Your Element
– By Howie StierNeither Madame, Nor Mademoiselle
–inSerial: part seven
Delusions of Being Observed– By Lewis WarshLOST AND FOUND ANIMALS a misplaced bestiary
Part 7: Caswell's Inkfan Lizard (polyphonia metamorphica)– By Sid Gershgorenan extract from
The Fifth Wall– By Rachel Nagelbergexcerpts from
Gnome– By Robert LundayEaster Sunday
– By Tom DalyNew Routes in Fiction
A talk with Jonathan Lee–
Poetry
Eight
– By Mike HauserSix
– By Tony LeuzziFour
– By Elaine KahnTwo
– By Christopher Rey Pérezfrom TANKA/ZANKA
– By Sho SugitaTwo
– By Alice NotleyAlyson Hannigan Ordered Me To Be Made
– By Nick SturmWinter Writing
– By Brenda Coultas
Art Books
Becoming Imperceptible
– By Wendy TronrudRamblings of a Wannabe Painter
– By Alyssa ColluraThe Weight of the World
– By Avra SpectorReading as Art & Publishing as Artistic Practice
– By Megan N. Liberty
Field Notes
Editor's Note
– By Paul MattickNowhere to Go: Automation, Then and Now Part Two
– By Jason E. SmithBehind the Myths: A Review
– By Peter St. Clair
The Well
Bemelmans Bar
– By Mitchell Kuga