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Artist & Poet

Brooklyn
Joined September 2012
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some days i just read Pessoa 🖤 (trans. Margaret Jull Costa)
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Here’s a link to collaborations I did with fellow artist and friend Kim Reinhardt: kimkimkim.com/collaborations…
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“We are all a falling in love. Let’s leave it that way.” — John Ashbery
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In New Haven waiting for “20-minute engine change.” Yay.
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“Yet another then. Of whom nothing. Devising figments to temper his nothingness. . . . Devised deviser devising it all for company.” — Beckett, Company
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For Robert Musil's Birthday Today, I have recorded a reading of a chapter from The Man Without Qualities, "Boyhood Friends," translated by Burton Pike and Sophie WIlkins. open.substack.com/pub/genese…
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“Perhaps an angel looks like everything We have forgotten, I mean forgotten Things that don’t seem familiar when We meet them again, lost beyond telling, Which were ours once.” — John Ashbery
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The more I read Alice Notley’s Certain Magical Acts, the more I think it was one of her best.
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I just took myself out of consideration to play the next James Bond. Kind of a relief.
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I’ll be giving readings in NYC on May 7 & 8! Hope to see you there.
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“Now he understood her, who had lived beside him so many years and been loved but never understood. You were never truly together with one you loved until the person in question was dead and actually inside you.” — Thomas Bernhard, Gargoyles (tr. Richard and Clara Winston)
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